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Перевод: powerless

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бессильный; беспомощный

Тезаурус:

1. Lord Lane said another division of the court had then felt powerless to intervene and hear new grounds of appeal because the Lords restored Berry's conviction after an earlier successful appeal.
2. He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession, responsible for turning players into mindless dependents, powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them.
3. I felt powerless.
4. Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless, so they feel there is no point in helping them, or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified, or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it.
5. Rarely is the customer consulted; in far too many cases the regular is a powerless bystander as his or her pub is transformed by identikit "Victoriana".
6. They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism.
7. While we believe that a problem is all someone else's fault, we are powerless to resolve it, since we cannot change other people; we can only change ourselves.
8. Moreover, you know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear the flute.
9. While the powerful seem to get away with serious crimes, the powerless commit less serious offences and get prison.
10. David, a 19-year-old student, received the 100 prize for making the longest-ever powerless flight from the town's 30ft-high pier.
11. Parents knew what was wrong, but were powerless to act, because they had no effective choice of schools or of curriculum; they simply had to suffer the advice of "experts" and the diktats of local officials.
12. Finally and perhaps most importantly, Lovell criticised the narrowness of Lacanian psychoanalytic concerns because of their focus on the construction of individual subjectivity rather than on ways in which a collective subject can be constituted, and because the Lacanian subject was seen as ultimately powerless.
13. "That made me feel powerless.