powerlessness in English

noun

['paʊə(r)lɪsnɪs]

weakness, impotence, helplessness

Use "powerlessness" in a sentence

1. Dread is produced by a powerlessness.

2. Our powerlessness is combined with anger.

3. Women's representation helps keep them inplace of relative powerlessness.

4. But I to starboard and I am so powerlessness.

5. Synonyms: behest, charge, Commandment… Antonyms: impotence, impotency, powerlessness…

6. For me, the worst was the feeling of utter powerlessness.

7. The second, Altheda, endures poverty and powerlessness due to a robbery.

8. The feelings of loss and powerlessness can be overwhelming. —2 Samuel 18:33.

9. Certainly, one of the prime reasons for powerlessness is lack of obedience.

10. Powerlessness is a state of mind. If you think you are powerless, you are.

11. Her past unresolved feelings of anger and powerlessness were projected onto Harris's watching TV.

12. Suggesting that God expresses Himself or Herself through powerlessness, rather than power.

13. Antonyms for Coercion include persuasion, freedom, liberty, peace, powerlessness, license, weakness, release, liberation and independence

14. Contradiction addresses the saturation of churches in African American communities coexisting with poverty and powerlessness

15. Antonyms for Conclusiveness include inConclusiveness, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, uncertainty, inadequacy, uselessness, powerlessness, impotence

16. Aporia was the ancient Greek personified spirit (daimona) of want, difficulty and powerlessness

17. I listened to many tales of powerlessness, of personal degradation, hopelessness and unhappiness.

18. Antonyms for Ascendancies include subordination, inferiority, weaknesses, disadvantages, powerlessness, servility, subjection, subservience, domination and

19. Whatever the case , Chinese are well acquainted with Americans'feelings of indignation mixed with powerlessness.

20. Contradiction addresses the saturation of churches in Black neighborhoods coexisting with poverty and powerlessness

21. I sympathize with my clients'plight, but I wasn't impressed by their claims of powerlessness.

22. We are moving into an era when frailty, fragility and powerlessness are simply not enough.

23. If we can't bring our problems under control, feelings of powerlessness and despair often ensue.

24. Letting go is to admit powerlessness; Which means the outcome is not in my hands.

25. The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness.

26. A significant cause of stress in the workplace is a sense of powerlessness and lack of control.

27. The creation of aphasiac made Mobai's novels have critical spirit and characteristics of indignation, inhibition, powerlessness, rebellion and exodus.

28. In addition, we compare ourselves favourably with others. Low self - esteem can helplessness, powerlessness and even depression.

29. The powerlessness of the Frankfurt Assembly, however, was reflected in the debate over the Danish Conflict of 1848.

30. For many in local authority or privately rented accommodation, the sense of frustration and powerlessness can be overwhelming.

31. Perhaps there is no greater feeling of powerlessness, and despair, than seeing a home fill up with water.

32. Some writers have suggested that they solve the problem of the powerlessness of the individual in relation to the political machine.

33. Gadaffi first floated the idea in 19 arguing that it offered the best chance of escaping poverty and powerlessness.

34. For organizer Rivera-Reyes, working with Philly Boricuas helps ease the powerlessness he feels being away from the island

35. This ongoing process begins with the first step through which the alcoholic admits to his or her powerlessness over alcohol.

36. And that thought provides some of the reasons why this region suffers not only from poverty, but also from political powerlessness.

37. AIDS had become a central issue for United Nations humanitarian work because HIV spread fastest where poverty, powerlessness and social instability abounded.

38. Workers who felt up to their jobs selected quieter punishments, between 55 and 62 decibels, as did those who felt a combination of incompetence and powerlessness.

39. The carrying away of Chaff by the wind is an ordinary scriptural image of the destruction of the wicked and of their powerlessness to resist God's judgments.

40. What is Alienation? Working definition: the separation or estrangement of human beings from some essential aspect of their nature or from society, often resulting in feelings of powerlessness or helplessness

41. ‘The Ascription of such powerlessness has been part of an assault on institutions by social scientists, among others.’ ‘Knowledge of the law is hardly an appropriate test on which to base Ascription of responsibility to the mentally disordered.’

42. Toni Morrison's exploration of the Africanist discourse in the "white" American novel is a testimony to hybridity; Anna Deavere Smith's disquieting Bricolages of the fear, force, and powerlessness that constitute Crown Heights or the L.A.

43. "Extravagant Abjections suturing of bottoming and volitional powerlessness, a mere and indeterminate power, reframes a sexual politics that only recognizes a notion of freedom approaching an infinity curvethe liberatory horizon that queer theory as too often yearned for.", GLQ: A …

44. ‘His Apoplexy, however appropriate to the repulsiveness of its catalyst, is surely fueled by powerlessness.’ ‘This sentiment almost induces Apoplexy in our authors.’ ‘The Sovereigns, still in Apoplexy over the betrayal, promised their favor to the man who brought the Traitor back alive.’

45. For the Decade to succeed, there must be a clear recognition of the extent to which the presence or absence of literacy skills in a population is linked to the potential for societies to deal with poverty, discrimination, poor health, social exclusion and powerlessness.

46. ‘The second movement is a set of recitatives and Ariosos for tenor, chorus, soprano, and bass, in which we are transported to that final moment of death and seek the support of God in our trial.’ ‘Bostridge then railed against destiny in a long arioso, but his powerlessness was symbolised by the next chorus.’

47. The Acerbity in Cather's tone ("ripped out again") reveals her anger at her publisher's power to make decisions without consulting her, while her more flattering and deferential tone ("I would be greatly gratified," "I beg you to use") reflects the author's powerlessness to control the appearance of the book as a physical artifact.

48. A qualitative study published in 2012, Patients' engagement in primary care: powerlessness and compounding jeopardy, explored what poor older adults with LTCs said they wanted from Clinicians (1) Those in the study had been purposefully selected on the basis of ethnicity, gender, age (50 or older), two or more LTCs, and had been admitted to hospital at least twice in a year for five or more