powerlessness

If the charges are true, this isn't a story about sex, romance and the war between men and women, it is about violence, and toward a person who is almost a definition of powerlessness.

A Week of Shocks but Few Surprises Peggy Noonan 2011

And so when the Obama Administration decides it can do no better than stand by, ring its hands and express "disappointment" at the resumption of settlement expansion, its powerlessness is taken for granted, as if it were a simple fact of nature.

Mark Levine: Whatever Happened to 'Just Say No'? Mark Levine 2010

And so when the Obama Administration decides it can do no better than stand by, ring its hands and express "disappointment" at the resumption of settlement expansion, its powerlessness is taken for granted, as if it were a simple fact of nature.

Mark Levine: Whatever Happened to 'Just Say No'? Mark Levine 2010

And so when the Obama Administration decides it can do no better than stand by, ring its hands and express "disappointment" at the resumption of settlement expansion, its powerlessness is taken for granted, as if it were a simple fact of nature.

Mark Levine: Whatever Happened to 'Just Say No'? Mark Levine 2010

And McGovern’s sense of powerlessness is compelling.

Candidates Punt on Iraq-Israel « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

Reams of psychological research confirm that this kind of sense of powerlessness is all too often translated into fantasies of inflicting harm on others — there’s no more complete assertion of dominance than torture.

Torture as Performance 2007

Krauthammer is speaking truth to powerlessness, that is, to those who will still become powerless if Obama wins, since they are inauthentic & have come too late to Obama.

Charles Krauthammer will not be joining the "motley crew" of "wet-fingered conservatives" who are flipping to Obama. Ann Althouse 2008

Poverty is also characterized by a self perpetuating condition of powerlessness, which is multi generational reality that impacts on the next generation even before birth.

Address by Thabo Mbeki to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly 2008

The Elbow Boys also shun 12-step slogans and claim to deny the notion of powerlessness, but they see the problem of quitting in physical terms: they fuse their own arms straight so as not to be able to take a drink.

The Madcap Side of Sobering Up 2007

When the new AA member reaches this step there is likely to be a rise in anxiety, and a strong surge of resistance to the idea of powerlessness.

Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991