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How to use the word powerlessness in a Sentence?

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Eastern Ukraine residents were living in a twilight zone -- Eastern Ukraine residents were in the front line of a geopolitical despite, and there was a sense of powerlessness. – Samir Puri	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty. – Roberto Mukaro Borrero	added by oirrc 3 years ago
I thought I was the only human who experienced this, and I carried so much guilt and confusion about my response to the abuse, i accepted my powerlessness, and I felt I deserved it somehow. – Evan Rachel Wood	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
He is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world, he is the leader of the free world. But he's crying as if to say there's nothing I can do but accept and admit the powerlessness of my situation. – Meg Mott	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Powerlessness is not a helpful message for women to embrace, aA focuses on drinking as the problem and keeps people focused on that. Drinking is rarely the problem — it is the symptom of things that are not working somewhere in your life, and you are medicating with alcohol rather than addressing the real issues. – Mary Ellen Barnes	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Anger. Rage. Powerlessness that they could tear my daughter from my arms. Sadness, i didn't sleep. I didn't eat. I said, 'How is my daughter? What is she doing?'. – Susana Nunez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure – Nicolas Boileau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Eastern Ukraine residents were living in a twilight zone -- Eastern Ukraine residents were in the front line of a geopolitical despite, and there was a sense of powerlessness.

– Samir Puri

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.

– Roberto Mukaro Borrero

added by oirrc
3 years ago

I thought I was the only human who experienced this, and I carried so much guilt and confusion about my response to the abuse, i accepted my powerlessness, and I felt I deserved it somehow.

– Evan Rachel Wood

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world, he is the leader of the free world. But he's crying as if to say there's nothing I can do but accept and admit the powerlessness of my situation.

– Meg Mott

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Powerlessness is not a helpful message for women to embrace, aA focuses on drinking as the problem and keeps people focused on that. Drinking is rarely the problem — it is the symptom of things that are not working somewhere in your life, and you are medicating with alcohol rather than addressing the real issues.

– Mary Ellen Barnes

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Anger. Rage. Powerlessness that they could tear my daughter from my arms. Sadness, i didn't sleep. I didn't eat. I said, 'How is my daughter? What is she doing?'.

– Susana Nunez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

– Harry Shearer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure

– Nicolas Boileau

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

– Henri Nouwen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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