Jeff Sessions will be Trump's attorney general — and Democrats are powerless to stop him Jeff Sessions will be Trump's attorney general — and Democrats are powerless to stop him Alabama Sen.
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I feel so powerless to take that away from her.
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"The mother was powerless to stop the wedding," Fall said.
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But the prime minister was powerless to sack his deputy.
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We are not powerless to change the course of history.
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Instead, they'd be trapped and thus powerless to hurt her.
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Plus, men feared them because they were powerless to them.
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Governments are mostly powerless to direct such cultural change, however.
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Most humans are powerless to resist the urge to poop.
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Helpless and powerless to move like a dragonfly in amber.
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And they won't feel powerless to do something about it.
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Law is powerless to impose them and powerless without them.
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Qatar, despite abundant resources, has been powerless to stop it.
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And try as we might, we're powerless to stop it.
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The rest of the church is powerless to stop him.
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But many say they are powerless to change his behavior.
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Mr. Putin was powerless to protect his client in Damascus.
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Feeling powerless to save my son was truly my darkest moment.
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Science and progress are powerless to stop a talented rabble-rouser.
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Graham insisted to police that he felt powerless to say no.
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Like McCarthy, no one is too powerless to escape Trump's venom.
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Vester said she felt powerless to tell him not to come.
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Why does the government seem powerless to fix this broken system?
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The librarians seemed powerless to stop the papers from falling apart.
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Growth is sluggish, and central banks seem powerless to fix it.
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But they were powerless to withstand the extraordinary swelling this week.
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Often parents feel powerless to do anything about all of this.
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An adult standing on a nearby balcony seemed powerless to help.
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The local courts are powerless to address any of these wrongs.
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Still, Democrats are powerless to stop any nominees on their own.
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Why all of this is happening, again, I am powerless to explain.
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Their poor parents are powerless to stop the crying, yelling and screaming.
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The fractured and greedy public stock exchanges seem powerless to stop them.
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Democrats are powerless to stop Trump's judicial nominees without help from Republicans.
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They feel powerless to keep their personal information private, and they are.
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They were clearly powerless to stop this travesty against their own voters.
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Democrats, powerless to block the nominees, have been sidelined as angry bystanders.
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" He added: "This court is powerless to change that state of affairs.
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Imagine if the newspaperman who saw it coming was powerless to stop it.
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Anything they felt like…And you were powerless to do anything about it.
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But Nigeria's government has so far proven largely powerless to recover the girls.
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Domestic institutions are effectively powerless to stand up to the President, strategists say.
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Senate Democrats lashed out but seemed powerless to force Republicans to alter course.
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We all know the feeling, one that science has been powerless to explain.
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Eighteen months ago, the state seemed almost powerless to address the earthquake threat.
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We feel powerless to make you believe that our black lives should matter.
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And in normal circumstances, airline pilots are powerless to eliminate air traffic delays.
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Senate Democrats would be powerless to filibuster the legislation under the parliamentary rules.
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But CNN's Chris Cillizza says Senate Dems are powerless to stop Trump's pick.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be powerless to stop a floor vote.
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Under the separation of powers doctrine, they argue, courts are powerless to act.
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Right now, the West is powerless to prevent these abhorrent Russian and Syrian tactics.
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Why HR is powerless to effectively handle sexual harassment claims Joker has toxic fans.
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Some students began to have questions about her but were powerless to do anything.
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She says he then allegedly sexually assaulted her as she was powerless to resist.
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" McCarthy concludes that for these reasons, "collectively, [The Handmaid's Tale] is powerless to scare.
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And thus he commences some Arctic drilling even President Obama is powerless to stop.
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She is separate, yes; she has succeeded; but she is powerless to console herself.
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Republicans were powerless to stop a series of President Obama's judicial nominees after that.
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Day in and day out, we feel powerless to make our black lives matter.
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We are largely powerless to immediately and significantly change the wind, drought or climate.
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They will be powerless to get a meaningful response out of their new boss.
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Even a successful hostile bid could leave PPG powerless to control the merged firm.
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Consider that the three individuals who struck this deal are powerless to enact it.
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Chinese football fans often feel powerless to resist things foisted on them from above.
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The young woman was horrified but powerless to stop either the vomit or diarrhea.
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But the report underscores how we're not powerless to avoid the worst-case scenario.
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I stared in horror as the screen turned a blinding white, powerless to stop it.
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"I was powerless to stop this," she said of Jon's behavior once she left town.
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The sobering fact is that the Dems are pretty much powerless to stop Gorsuch's confirmation.
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You can do this by acknowledging that you are powerless to change someone else's behavior.
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The convention in itself is relatively powerless to defeat powerful, well-organized transnational crime syndicates.
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The European Commission is, in effect, powerless to combat systemic corruption in a member state.
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Rebels have surrendered villages, towns and cities in swift succession, powerless to stop the onslaught.
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Other countries have watched this pattern with envy, but have felt powerless to stop it.
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You feel almost powerless to have prevented it in some way and feel somewhat responsible.
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As Toni watched on in the final games, Nadal seemed powerless to stem the tide.
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That's because the GOP ship was already sinking and powerless to do anything about it.
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Democrats are largely powerless to stop Trump's court picks from being confirmed without GOP defections.
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But only the "impotent poor" — those truly powerless to support themselves — were to receive aid.
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Or to pray and say you're powerless to act because the gas company owns you.
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He is against the Nazis, yet feels powerless to do anything much to counter them.
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"They leave us with nothing, and we are powerless to stop them," Ms. Mbaye said.
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Oshima undoubtedly has hidden depths, but as an interviewer Merchant is powerless to reveal them.
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No one is saying that the president is powerless to protect the nation from attack.
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ICANN originally stated that the organization was powerless to intercede in the sale of the .
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It suggests that workers are resigned to this treatment, or feel powerless to stop it.
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It's something ordinary people can do, even if they think they're powerless to do anything.
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Yet outside, an entire army lay permanently powerless to change its fortunes on the battlefield.
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I'm powerless to do a damned thing about it, powerless to save any of them from Boone County, powerless to yank them all out of the house where my great-grandmother died, the house where my uncle was born, the house my grammy left to find something else for herself that ended up being my pawpaw, the house my parents dream of selling so they can move south to better weather and flatter land.
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You feel powerless to fix it, so you turn up your headphones and focus your mind.
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Millions of Nigerians are hooked on the painkiller, and the government is powerless to stop it.
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Regardless, just because the causes of the trends are unknown doesn't mean we're powerless to help.
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Furthermore, Park is essentially powerless to ignore their objections given her current fragile standing, he added.
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But most of the time, it is powerless to resist the long arm of the law.
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"I felt powerless to be unable to get my family, unable to do anything," he said.
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The Washington insiders impose their will on the people and they feel powerless to stop it.
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If Republicans stay united, Democrats could be powerless to stop them from rolling the rules back.
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We feel powerless to keep you from killing black people in front of their loved ones.
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Many of Tropodo's residents say they detest the plastic burning but are powerless to stop it.
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He said it would "pretty strange" if the court were powerless to stop Assange being extradited.
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ICANN previously said that the organization was "powerless" to do anything about the sale of the .
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He is embarrassed by his tears, but powerless to stop them as he processes his newfound freedom.
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It's what we do when we feel we've lost control or are powerless to do anything more.
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Sessions, however, portrayed himself to the senators as powerless to give out the money in the meantime.
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As the number of victims in a tragedy grow, we feel more and more powerless to help.
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Soon after the babies were born, Cook was powerless to stop nurses from whisking the infants away.
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British prime minister Theresa May called it an "international cyberattack," one the government seemed powerless to stop.
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Although we can see and hear what's really going on today, we feel powerless to prevent it.
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The orphan has no understanding of women, and so he is powerless to resist Rachel's searching face.
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We feel powerless to keep you from shooting hate inside our muscles with well-choreographed white rage.
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But we aren't powerless to stop those extreme wildfires that break historical norms and devastate the West.
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He seemed powerless to control infighting at Salomon, which led to the departure of talented senior executives.
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But many landowners, receiving no help from the authorities, have felt powerless to do much about it.
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Immigrant gangs have secured these zones, and the government of Sweden has been powerless to stop it.
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In October, Mr. Johnson's party had no majority and was essentially powerless to pass any contentious legislation.
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My bronchitis was on the verge of turning into pneumonia, but I was powerless to stop playing.
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But he was powerless to support many projects he considered worthy and became disillusioned with the work.
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President Trump can shout "fake news" all he wants, but he is powerless to stop the stories.
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His lust for blocks is a raging storm in his body, one he is powerless to deny.
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With Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress, Democrats are powerless to do anything on their own.
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Now, as the Fed starts to slowly increase rates, many emerging markets feel powerless to prevent capital flight.
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Curtis had believed there were other victims, but she also believed that she was powerless to stop Savino.
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And when it comes to people who reside in the country illegally, courts typically are powerless to intervene.
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This would leave the FCC powerless to prohibit fraudulent billing, price gouging and practices that violate consumers' privacy.
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Evil Corporation, the show's first-season villain, is reeling and the government seems almost powerless to fix things.
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"The more excellent way is love," insists a woman whose death Vollie witnesses but feels powerless to prevent.
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Democrats are now virtually powerless to push any kind of agenda in a Capitol dominated by the GOP.
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Fernandez was powerless to stop Suarez's opener, however, the Uruguayan tapping the ball home at the far post.
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Because this is my fear, being trapped and being powerless, just powerless to get out of that space.
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The bartender was powerless to the downfalls of gravity, and could only stand and watch his tower tumble.
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With Democrats in control of the lower chamber, Republicans are powerless to block the disapproval resolution, which Rep.
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Democrats are effectively powerless to prevent Trump from confirming another selection to the high court on their own.
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With the president able to veto their legislative efforts, Republican lawmakers are powerless to stop the rules, Rep.
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Even after the class, it seemed, many felt powerless to have an impact on laws or police practices.
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They are nearly powerless to protect themselves if their parents or others try to force them into marriage.
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Nadal was powerless to stop Djokovic as he watched 16 winners fly past him in the opening set.
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A Thai political analyst said the dissidents in Laos appeared to be frustrated and powerless to do anything.
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She must allay fears that the central bank is out of ammunition and powerless to calm financial markets.
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We felt powerless to do anything but pull over and take pictures that will never do it justice.
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But the UN proved powerless to prevent the entirely predictable Indonesian reprisals, or to protect the civilian victims.
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From that point on, her terminal breast cancer would run its natural course, medicine powerless to arrest it.
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And with a filibuster no longer an option, Democrats are powerless to block a nominee on their own.
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Perhaps the team's true alpha was nursing a hamstring injury on the sideline, powerless to affect the outcome.
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In Rucho, all five of the Court's Republicans voted that federal courts are powerless to stop partisan gerrymandering.
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Could it be to hide the fact that we are powerless to prevent such interference in the future?
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He knew his gaming had become a terrible problem, he told them, but he felt powerless to stop.
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But it harmed their ability to govern, leaving leaders powerless to avoid a debt crisis and government shutdown.
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The ruling also rejected Mr. Trump's claim that courts are powerless to review a president's national security assessments.
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The House admitted in court Tuesday it's basically powerless to force administration officials to testify at this time.
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She wrote on Twitter that Parliament was powerless to act and only a facade for a sham democracy.
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Democrats are worried that an acquittal will only embolden the president, and they feel powerless to prevent it.
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He surmised that the guru's consciousness had already been so awakened that drugs were powerless to alter it.
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I often felt powerless to respond in the face of these xenophobic comments, having never made them myself.
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Furthermore, because of the stigma of their convictions, the women often feel powerless to stop or report incidences.
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And Buffalo's secondary, as you can see above, was pretty much powerless to stop him in the open field.
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House Democrats face two serious headwinds in their quest for a majority that they are essentially powerless to cure.
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But the drug trade, he says, is fueling the gun violence, and residents are largely powerless to stop it.
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This would leave Congress powerless to punish many egregious executive abuses—including all the current allegations against Mr Trump.
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Too often, women feel powerless to change circumstances — political, social, financial, take your pick — that feel beyond their control.
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It's absurd that if an experimental drug killed patients, FDA reviewers would be powerless to respond in any manner.
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Many suicide victims had families who knew that they were in trouble, but were legally powerless to stop them.
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Mostly powerless to set the legislative agenda as the minority party, Democrats have some delaying tactics at their disposal.
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Democrats are outnumbered 51-49 in the Senate, leaving them largely powerless to stop a nominee on their own.
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Although committee chairmen, yield less power than they once did, they are by no means powerless to effectuate change.
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The rest of the world is too powerless to stop these economic powerhouses from continuing their mass internment projects.
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The local animal control said they are powerless to help because they are not licensed to trap wild animals.
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Nationalist sentiment has spiraled so high that even Mr. Modi may be powerless to contain it, Mr. Shukla said.
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And, after your children see that you are powerless to protect them, this will permanently change things between you.
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Democratic electors are the ones beating the drums for the revolt, yet they're largely powerless to change the outcome.
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But officials have not explained how the system makes such decisions, and citizens have felt powerless to challenge it.
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But critics fear that the new model, if adopted, will render the community powerless to stop a preselected site.
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In light of the GOP's intransigence lately, it may seem that Democrats are powerless to do any of this.
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But if Mr. Maduro allows him to return, he could seem powerless to enforce his own government's travel ban.
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Republicans railed against the new rules but were powerless to repeal the regulations in the face of Obama's veto.
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Yet the residents of Southeast remain submerged beneath a crime wave that the city has proved powerless to stop.
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Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, writing for the majority, rejected Mr. McKeever's request, saying courts were powerless to grant it.
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Because the majority party controls the agenda in the Senate, the President was powerless to do more than protest.
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Republicans railed against the new rules but were powerless to repeal the regulations in the face of Obama's veto.
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They argued that the committee was powerless to obtain his records because it had no legislative need for them.
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When we finally notice the uncanny, it's too late, and we feel powerless to face the reality around us.
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Her little boy was slipping away from her, and despite all her progress, she was powerless to stop it.
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Defenders know exactly what is in his mind, precisely what is coming, and yet remain powerless to stop it.
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They feel so powerless to attract a female that they'll beat up on women's looks to feel better about themselves.
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All the while, he maintained that a cyberattack had occurred and the FCC was powerless to do anything about it.
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But she is powerless to stop migration and her decision to suppress mainstream opposition groups has seen extremist fringes thrive.
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Those decisions were seismic cultural shifts, and conservatives were tired of feeling powerless to stop, slow, or reverse these changes.
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With Congress powerless to pass sweeping legislation to counter it, our country's laws will be reshaped by the Trump Court.
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Questions aside, no matter what weird, mad concoction Doritos comes up with, we are powerless to resist a taste test.
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The board either wasn't paying attention, or was paying attention but powerless to fix problems before it was too late.
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READ: The truth about Syria And we both understood in that moment that we were absolutely powerless to protect ourselves.
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The family of the victim, the McGowans of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, at first appeared powerless to get answers about the death.
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Perhaps easiest would be to slash staff and reduce the agency's funding, making it powerless to enforce its own rules.
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For women in Hollywood, making a powerful enemy while being powerless to fight back meant stalled careers and emotional distress.
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He gave me a potion that made me powerless to move or speak, yet did nothing to dull my senses.
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His direct line to fellow Saudis, which the kingdom was powerless to stop, may well have contributed to his death.
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He declared the White House powerless to address violations of the Ethics in Government Act by appointees who leave government.
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Democrats have consistently attacked Clayton's Wall Street career, but are powerless to stop his confirmation without Republicans on their side.
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Here's why UBS thinks equities are on a similar path — and why the Fed will be powerless to stop it.
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Kurdish troops have been camped out mere miles away from the city for months, with ISIS powerless to repel them.
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People close to the talks say that the negotiators appear powerless to force any changes that aren't in China's interest.
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But those players and many others remain unsigned, and their union is furious — but powerless to do much about it.
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Under the court's precedents, Justice Kagan wrote, Congress was powerless to enact the law, dooming Mr. Allen's case, Allen v.
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Italian and European liberal forces that sought to stop their rise have seemed powerless to lay a glove on them.
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The Rohingya, through no fault of their own, like many victims worldwide, are too poor and powerless to take part.
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The press wrote stories, policymakers gnashed their teeth — and nothing changed because the U.S. government is largely powerless to intervene.
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Here's one reason: As the number of victims in a tragedy grow, we feel more and more powerless to help.
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Several of America's key strategic partners are at each other's throats — and the U.S. seems powerless to prevent further escalation.
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However, family and friends – those in the best position to recognize troubling signs – are too often powerless to stop it.
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If that trend continues, the nation may end up with a regulatory agency that's powerless to make any meaningful regulations.
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If that trend continues, the nation may end up with a regulatory agency that's powerless to make any meaningful regulations.
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But some people feel powerless to prevent it: Many of the risk factors seem baked into the cake at birth.
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The Democratic caucus appears powerless to block a vote before that, as they hold just 49 seats in the Senate.
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The staff Trump does have is riven by factional infighting, and powerless to control their undisciplined boss in any event.
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The average consumer is pretty much powerless to sort out good deals from bad buys when faced with those odds.
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The family of five I witnessed waiting on the dock to visit the Apostle Islands was powerless to see them.
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So whether or not you think the Fed was powerless to do more in 2009, it's definitely not powerless today.
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But once the last stage has burned out, the payload just goes where gravity takes it, powerless to push itself further.
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This would mean that the FCC would be powerless to address, among other things, fraudulent billing, price gouging, and privacy violations.
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The traditional publicity powers (People, Entertainment Tonight, E!), with their meager online arms, were powerless to counter this new gossip industry.
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Rakhel Shapiro, 28, Brooklyn, NY I feel afraid that I will be powerless to stop the great harm Trump is causing.
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"I felt powerless to do anything about it," wrote Flores, who has since co-founded a Latina advocacy group, Luz Collective.
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Out of the blue, some social media challenges take off to such an extent that people seem powerless to ignore them.
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Republicans have refused to request the documents and Democrats are powerless to force them to be turned over on their own.
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Above all, perhaps, they say Britain is virtually powerless to stop the influx of migrants — more than 300,000 arrived last year.
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Drones are increasingly being used by criminals across the country, and local law enforcement agencies are often powerless to stop them.
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It's a final act of selfishness for Duque — and once again in this episode, a child is powerless to stop it.
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Of course, everyone wants to avoid a military confrontation with Russia, but that does not mean we're powerless to confront Putin.
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Somalia's fledging government, which relies heavily on African Union peacekeepers to protect it, seems powerless to stop the string of bombings.
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European Union membership is in line with these values and it is not true that Britain is powerless to influence events.
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Income inequality, student loan debt, Syrian refugees — these are all real problems we feel nearly powerless to solve at the moment.
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Just because the virus isn't being contained doesn't mean we're powerless to prevent serious illness and deaths among the most vulnerable.
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"I think she has it now," he said, though he is powerless to know for sure in the absence of tests.
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With Democrats largely powerless to block a Trump appointee, eyes are on two female Republican senators who could cast deciding votes.
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But I also felt that walking away would make me powerless to do anything to push back against the administration's dishonesty.
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The search company appears powerless to keep many of them off people's devices, even when doing so might help its business.
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But if Mr. Maduro allowed him to return quietly, he could seem weakened and powerless to enforce his government's travel ban.
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Trump, however, is hardly powerless to respond as he likes to whatever content he finds to be in error or unfair.
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Two, female bosses are not going around flashing their genitals to young men powerless to stop them over and over again.
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Honoring those who suffered wartime rape requires men to acknowledge that they were powerless to protect their nation, women and territory.
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An Aborigine in Australia would be equally powerless to control a racial identity that has been thrust onto him by whites.
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This meant that black voters were often powerless to respond after the fact to policies that had rigged their communities to fail.
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"I know now that she noticed what was going on, but she obviously felt powerless to do anything about it," says Patty.
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However, considering Google's vast influence on our collective Internet experience, it could start a link revolution that we'll be powerless to stop.
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And the Ashley Too bots seem to be slightly self-aware at all times, yet powerless to truly control their own actions.
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First, it would keep our government safe from a catastrophic single terrorist attack that, today, might render our government powerless to function.
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The FBI has warned state election boards to be on alert — though they may be powerless to do much about significant attacks.
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While Turner was off starring in movies and going through various husbands, Crane was left feeling powerless to win her mother's love.
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We've all been there: running from one appointment to the next, watching our phone batteries die, knowing we're powerless to stop it.
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Under the right conditions, once a fire reaches the crowns of trees, humans are generally powerless to stop the flames, noted Flannigan.
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Imagine the terror that child feels, and the hopeless anguish of a mom who knows she is powerless to comfort her toddler.
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Republicans, by contrast, want you to think that while they strongly oppose Trump's behavior, they are powerless to do anything about it.
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From Mr. Putin on down, Russian officials keep asking why Mr. Trump has been so powerless to implement his own preferred policy.
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Instead, Judge Preska went further, saying the unconstitutionality of the bureau's structure effectively rendered it powerless to bring action against RD Legal.
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We are all being debased and degraded, rendered impoverished and powerless, to service the cruel and lascivious demands of the corporate elite.
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Families have limited tenant rights and can be left penniless or powerless to challenge property managers in business with their military employers.
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After eliminating the 60-vote filibuster threshold against judges in 2013, Democrats were now powerless to stop Mr. Bounds without Republican help.
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The hapless father who is powerless to protect her is John, who toils away on the farm to escape his wife's harping.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers argued that the House committee was powerless to obtain his records because it had no legislative need for them.
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The big picture: The new data underscore the importance of a legislative solution to help patients who are powerless to protect themselves.
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Some townspeople set a date for his lynching, a public event that the governor of Mississippi claimed he was powerless to prevent.
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It was all but powerless to stop its stars from leaving for clubs that could offer more money, more prestige, more ambition.
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Back east, in Diyala, Mr. Daini said he had been powerless to halt what he described as Iran's dominance in the province.
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Then he pins her in a weirdly loaded sleeper hold and points out that she's powerless to stop him from killing her.
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SOFIA — Bulgarian statesmen are watching, powerless to alter the course of events, as the spectre of war looms ever larger over their country.
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As the minority, the two Democrats who serve on the commission, both of which favor net neutrality, will be powerless to stop them.
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While Democrats likely are powerless to stop it, they suggested Trump's victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton would forever be tainted by Russian meddling.
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The FCC would be powerless to prohibit anti-consumer practices by ISPs like fraudulent billing, price gouging and practices that violate consumer privacy.
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The footage shows the school bus powerless to stop as it slides on ice down Peach Tree Drive at about 7:10 a.m.
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Two days ago, the Trump administration falsely claimed the president was powerless to stop separating children from their parents at the southern border.
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And yet Thailand's military government is playing down the dry spell and says it is powerless to crimp such a popular national holiday.
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Demi Lovato's recent apparent overdose shocked many, including those in her family who may have felt powerless to help her in the past.
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For the next minute, you're powerless to control the action, but the AI is smart enough to react to dangers as they appear.
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Taney argued that the constitution had not considered slaves to be citizens, and so he was powerless to confer citizenship on their children.
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China's obsolete navy, geared for coastal defense, was powerless to respond, and Beijing could only watch helplessly as the Taiwanese vote went ahead.
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Doctors are, after all, on the front lines of a pitched battle against an invisible enemy most of us are powerless to stop.
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Apprehension registers utmost among climate stakeholders — scientists, academics, environmentalists, and many citizens — who are powerless to prevent the Paris Accord from being dismantled.
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President Santos personally comforted Marcelo Garreta, who said he could see dead bodies being carried away by floodwaters but was powerless to help.
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But GOP leadership has dismissed the need for such a bill and Democrats are powerless to muscle through the proposal on their own.
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The Arab masses may hate that their leaders are silent accomplices to the Palestinian tragedy, but they're powerless to change the status quo.
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The effort to position the confirmation process as a matter of women's rights comes as Democrats are largely powerless to stop Trump's nominee.
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By refusing to admit the truth about their own party, they were powerless to stop the forces that led to Donald Trump's rise.
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But the administration has proved powerless to rein in online abuse, with a number of players hitting out at racism on social media.
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To be clear: I am not talking about encouraging the powerless to abandon any hope for some measure of control over their lives.
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Mr. Sanders had suddenly become a spectator in the campaign, powerless to stop a tectonic shift against him by the party's moderate wing.
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Before I could begin to comprehend what was happening, it had grown like a disease I was completely powerless to control or stop.
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In this ominous, claustrophobic novel, Underdown imagines his pregnant, widowed sister, who sees the malignant forces at work but is powerless to resist.
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In the original fairy tale, intense vegetation grew up around the princess's castle and countless prospective suitors were powerless to cut through it.
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Like the percolating anxiety caused by knowing that some of those downhill changes are permanent, and we are powerless to discern which ones.
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"As a campaign, we're almost entirely powerless to stop misinformation," Jen O'Malley Dillon, O'Rourke's campaign director, wrote in a tweet earlier this week.
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May's hard-line, pro-Brexit colleagues, that is a nightmare scenario that could leave Britain permanently powerless to determine its own trade destiny.
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Yet with conservation bodies powerless to issue sanctions, it's possible to exploit the ocean's resources until there are no more resources to exploit.
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The levers were false, the game's designer was in charge, and you were forced to acknowledge that you were powerless to control the outcome.
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In his version of their history, beatings were commonplace — punishments for minor infractions or poor performances — and his mother Katherine was powerless to intervene.
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Unfortunately, those who overdose are powerless to call for help in an emergency and therefore fail to ever receive the lifesaving opioid antidote naloxone.
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Macron reiterated France's commitment to maintaining the accord, but Europe's leaders have appeared powerless to prevent the U.S. sanctions inflicting pain on Iran's economy.
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James and his teammates were powerless to stop Stephen Curry & Company, who unleashed their entire offensive cache on a stunned Cleveland team and crowd.
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"I feel powerless to address it; fast-fashion brands so rampantly [copy], especially from smaller labels that are without large copyright protection," Pagano said.
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On the one hand, yes, the greening of the US electric sector is fully underway, driven by forces that Trump is powerless to reverse.
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Despite the harsh chemotherapy regimen, the spots on my lungs were growing inside of me too, and the doctors seemed powerless to stop them.
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International drug cartels have used "narco-drones" to ferry drugs across the southern border, over Border Patrol agents who are largely powerless to intervene.
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Once illegal African elephant ivory made it past the border, Thai authorities were powerless to do anything about it, causing ivory markets to flourish.
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But there was a widespread belief that institutions didn't cause, and were powerless to stop, the racism and inequality that was rampant in Gainesville.
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That means with a 51-seat majority, if every Republican senator supported a Supreme Court nominee Democrats would be powerless to block the individual.
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New company members showed promise: As the Chorus in "Cave," Leslie Andrea Williams was unmannered and open, powerless to prevent the horror she foresees.
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But it's also true that, if we know that what we want is bad for us, we are not always powerless to refuse it.
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Once he was armed with a weekly column, he established a reputation as a passionate champion of people who were powerless to defend themselves.
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Her lover, Herbert Langer, was powerless to help (he had fainted when he learned of her arrest), even though he sat on the Aeltestenrat.
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This becomes your coping mechanism but deep down inside you feel powerless to change the hopelessness of being stripped and reduced to a number.
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One wishes them luck: Having proved powerless to stop Mr. Trump's rise, they hope to control China's and bend what follows to their will.
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If the Senate also lands in Democratic hands, the Republicans will be virtually powerless to stop legislation that progressives have been demanding for years.
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The usual answer is power — what it allows men to think they can get away with, and why women feel powerless to stop it.
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In his day, he was as famous as the kings of American late-night comedy are now — and just as powerless to affect elections.
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The rapper expressed sympathy for women forced to work in environments where "abuse was happening every day" and who felt powerless to change it.
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It was seen as a direct rebuke of the Nationals leaders' actions, even though the PM is powerless to formally reprimand or remove him.
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County Clerk Kim Davis may have refused to issue David Ermold a marriage license, but she was powerless to stop him from running against her.
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The mayor has sidestepped her movement's commitment to blocking a high-speed rail link through the Alps, explaining that she is powerless to stop it.
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Sure, he's not an idiot, but he knows that he's powerless to withstand either Tyrion or Cersei when they really want him to do something.
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Most teachers know that they are virtually powerless to influence curriculum decisions or protect themselves against false accusations without the support of a strong union.
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The story unfolds as a kind of tragic horror melodrama (again, Frankenstein-like), with Jessica powerless to prevent her mother from destroying herself and others.
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For instance, Ronson profiles Mike Quasar, a porn cameraman and director, who tells Ronson he's powerless to stop his films from being instantly pirated online.
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"Use of coffee terms as mere labels will render them powerless to sharp-eyed Millennials who are increasingly skeptical of unsupported language," the authors wrote.
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We all saw this coming but were powerless to stop it: the world's first Pokémon Go dating service has launched and its name is PokéDates.
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Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist, once remarked that a distinctive feature of dictatorships is that they make individuals feel powerless to change anything in society.
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Nabokov the comfortable exposer looks around the room "as if expecting applause," while Shostakovich the exposed is powerless to do anything but stand and suffer.
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He also been powerless to rein in the militias, and many Iraqis have grown frustrated with a government they see as increasingly subservient to Iran.
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Democrats are filibustering each of the nominees for different reasons but are almost powerless to stop them since weakening filibuster rules a few years ago.
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Whether this will be toward further union or fragmentation, Britain will be powerless to act — like being in the trunk of Mr. Gove's proverbial car.
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If North Korea were to develop and launch a rocket at Los Angeles or San Francisco, the Pentagon might still be powerless to stop it.
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Riding a wave of merger mania, AT&T wants to ensure state and federal lawmakers are powerless to thwart its attempt to dominate the internet.
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From that point, a familiar formula of gutsy passes by Prescott and tough runs by Elliott kicked in and Baltimore was powerless to stop it.
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Valtteri Bottas was third for Mercedes, who were powerless to extend their streak of successive wins to 11 and add a ninth for the season.
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From the dais, Ms. Harris can run through a prepared list of questions and, ultimately, the witness is powerless to do much but answer them.
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That's not to say I'm burying my head in the sand, but when I'm powerless to change the weather, what's the point monitoring it incessantly?
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No matter how much we trainees bristled at the wait and the antediluvian regulations our patients had to tolerate, we felt powerless to question them.
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China and India are using the same playbook to trample on their minorities, and the rest of the world is too powerless to stop them
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They will be able to review the text of the agreement and air their grievances in subsequent hearings but will be powerless to change it.
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His overt anger, his unapologetic willingness to yell and, at times, cut off sitting senators, provoked a palpable physical response I was powerless to control.
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But with the sugar mills months behind in payments, the farmers have been unable to pay school fees, making them feel powerless to demand changes.
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" Trump's predecessor President Barack Obama tweeted that "we are not powerless" to stop gun violence, adding that "caring for our kids is our first job.
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And Reid's most controversial move as leader — invoking the "nuclear option" on Senate confirmations — will leave his party essentially powerless to halt Trump's Cabinet selections.
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With the public feeling powerless to do anything to influence the politically powerful, it's continued to pressure companies that it considers collaborators through boycotts and shaming.
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But the city's neighbors to the north in Arlington are powerless to initiate a similar change, even though local officials would like to follow Alexandria's example.
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Because health associations operate outside state regulations, the executive order could lead to many thousands of plans across the country that states are powerless to oversee.
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While current political conditions seem unlikely to lead to his ouster from office, Trump appears increasingly powerless to save himself from the historical scar of impeachment.
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The SEC was cognizant of those flaws (and some think that that's why they delayed implementation for so long), but they were powerless to change them.
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The star is so good that the pooch was powerless to stay awake and fell asleep on her lap as the actress read her bedtime stories.
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At its core, Mitchell views these memes as a byproduct of fear and a sense by individuals that they are powerless to act against government surveillance.
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GOP leaders found themselves powerless to force Democrats out of the chamber and had no choice but to wait for 26 hours to take back control.
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Powerless to do anything else, White House press representatives tried to wish the problem away by playing down the president's words or insisting they'd been misconstrued.
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Feeling powerless to reduce her hours at work and too busy to start exercising again, she asked her doctor to up the dosage of her medication.
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Even a bloc of justices fully committed to overturning Citizens United would be powerless to do so unless and until an appropriate case comes before them.
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And with each story, there are millions who share the anger and shame of experiencing something that they knew was wrong, but felt powerless to change.
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And if they really believe that shareholders desire to elect more women but are powerless to do so, there is a superior alternative to a quota.
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In the United States, 40 percent of female fast-food workers have been sexually harassed at work, with many saying they feel powerless to prevent it.
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On the contrary, I think they're deeply engaged with their country's direction, even if so many feel powerless to change anything outside of their own lives.
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Lorde played a teen-ager who couldn't really join the party; instead, she watched from a distant balcony, powerless to resist her own tendency toward introspection.
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But the Archives has rebuffed their request for the documents and, because they're in the minority, Democrats are powerless to force Republicans to request the documents.
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Goffin, another first-time qualifier, battled to victory against hobbling world number one Rafael Nadal on Monday, but was powerless to stop Dimitrov in full flow.
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"Sea rescue operations are becoming a race through a maritime graveyard and our rescue boats powerless to stop the loss of life," MSF said on Twitter.
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This prompted what old-school wrestlers called a "snatching," an act of bodily appropriation that I was powerless to fend off while trying to take notes.
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The military has been succeeding in this, even though she has been largely powerless to act, given the legal, constitutional and realpolitik constraints she is facing.
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The political opposition seems largely powerless to push back, even though 22 legislators (out of a total of 70) have vowed to filibuster any 1L2C bill.
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Since it was powerless to grant relief to Mr. Morales-Santana, Justice Thomas wrote, it was unnecessary to decide whether the law violated equal protection principles.
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Rebellious posts on social media became so plentiful from so many obscure sites that the management of the Interior Department appeared powerless to find them all.
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"We have settled for a power which is now powerless to control the forces of extremist ideology," railed one recent op-ed in the Dhaka Tribune.
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It is essential to dispel the myth that chief executives have a legal duty to maximize short-term profit and are therefore powerless to act responsibly.
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Bullied by their parents into marriage, she says, girls may feel powerless to object — and fearful of telling a judge that they don't want to wed.
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"As a candidate he said, 'Those who think we're powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect are forgetting about the White House effect,' " Behar said.
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Julia has an unusual ability to view tragedies from other people's eyes and foretell disasters, but she's powerless to prevent herself and Theo from being seized.
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The mezzo Toby Newman was a fresh-voiced and sympathetic Emilia, who seemed well aware of the violent forces threatening Desdemona but powerless to stop them.
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And if that happens, then House GOPers could be facing the equivalent of an avalanche; they know it's coming but are absolutely powerless to stop it.
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Mr. Cuomo, known for his savvy and sometimes cudgel-like approach to negotiating, has said he is powerless to make the Senate's Democratic factions get along.
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Pyongyang said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat the international community has been powerless to contain.
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It creates a sense of agency and responsibility throughout the story, which is largely about characters who feel powerless to take action after a woman's mysterious death.
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And stopping short of unsubscribing, you – the listener, the user and the subscriber – are powerless to stop any of this because Spotify owns the music, not you.
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ISIS suicide bombers are ramming heavily armored trucks into Iraqi positions, killing and maiming soldiers whose machine guns are powerless to stop the Mad Max–looking vehicles.
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Even a happy ending to this election—a Trump defeat—will leave our governing institutions paralyzed or powerless to respond to the signals voters will have sent.
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Without such information, we are powerless to assess trade-offs between energy alternatives, set realistic resource goals, or even claim success — or failure — for policies in place.
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Flores -- who was running for lieutenant governor of Nevada at the time -- says she was embarrassed, shocked and confused ... and felt powerless to do anything about it.
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The Reuters reporting described rampant mold and pest infestations, childhood lead poisoning, and service families often powerless to challenge private landlords in business with their military employers.
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Woods toiled away in the afternoon with Bryson Dechambeau but the magic was not there and he was powerless to prevent a 5&4 defeat by "Moliwood".
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By the time he got to the final, he had run out of ideas and was powerless to stop Stan Wawrinka from running away with the spoils.
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Senior defensive end Koron Crump already has four sacks, but the Sun Devils looked powerless to stop the run when allowing 211 rushing yards to the Aztecs.
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Not only has the offensive of the Crown Prince been checked; but he is even powerless to hold ground that he had captured at a fearful price.
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Even though Martin-Godinez is a nurse in Guatemala, she was powerless to help her daughter as she complained of headaches and pain from 1,300 miles away.
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Guadalupe Garcia, 38, who lives on an unpaved street nearby, said she felt powerless to protest even though the construction din often woke and frightened her baby.
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Notwithstanding hopes to the contrary when his career began, the nation's first African-American president has proved powerless to reverse a decades-long trend toward political polarization.
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But the issue now is that one evil person can kill dozens of innocent people on any given day, and we are almost powerless to stop him.
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Many of us are struggling to ward off learned helplessness, the depressed, withdrawn state created when terrible things keep happening and you feel powerless to stop them.
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The result has been a remarkable challenge to the legacy of corruption and misgovernment that Haitians share and have felt powerless to effectively counter for many decades.
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And it has likewise been powerless to save the convoy, sending fighters and fuel trucks into the desert only to have them destroyed by American forces. Col.
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Lost without his grandfather and powerless to unlock both his mother's anger and his own grief, Clayton heads out on his own in search of some bluesmen.
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For some, it was a demoralizing glimpse into a future in which Republicans have all the power in Washington but are powerless to do anything with it.
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Others stayed, or arrived, to stand on a different side of history, trudging toward a celebration they were powerless to stop but desperate to at least interrupt.
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"Your highness, I am so sorry that I am powerless to protect you," an old woman recently wailed on the pavement in front of Ms. Park's home.
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What we are really talking about is the commons, is the stuff, frankly, that the systems, the infrastructure, social, physical, that we are powerless to do alone.
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Needless to say, the Nazis then proceeded far beyond the goals they shared with their conservative allies, who were powerless to hinder them in any significant way.
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By partnering with Democrats, they could force the issue to the floor if 218 members signed a discharge petition — and Republican leadership would be powerless to stop it.
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They argue that central banks are losing credibility as low (and even negative) rates have less and less impact, and lawmakers seem powerless to enact needed fiscal reforms.
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Yet the platforms themselves were virtually powerless to stop bad actors from poisoning political and cultural discourse with a steady stream of propaganda, misinformation, and openly divisive content.
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And "this essentially leaves the world's only swing producer powerless to prevent a supply shock and subsequent price spike in the final quarter of this year," Brennock said.
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CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index is indicating "extreme fear" in the markets as investors realize that central banks around the world -- especially China -- are powerless to bail them out.
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When my white friends doubted that what happened to me could easily happen on our privileged campus, I felt too powerless to argue with them at the time.
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But the accounting firm has indicated that it will turn over the documents if Mr. Trump loses in court, and he appears to be powerless to stop it.
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Federal Election Commission, the court ruled that government was powerless to prohibit corporations and unions from making independent expenditures to endorse or oppose candidates running for electoral office.
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From the start, the fighters moved to occupy Kirkuk's government center while trapping the city's emergency police forces in their base so they would be powerless to intervene.
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The conflict has devastated Yemen's economy and spurred a humanitarian crisis, with civilians unable to afford shelter, food or medicine, and aid groups powerless to reach vulnerable communities.
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Democrats, powerless to put their own priorities into play, aren't likely to roll over and adopt the hardline about an "infestation" of immigrants, coming from the White House.
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House GOP leaders were powerless to stop the demonstration as Democrats sat in the aisles and engaged in what felt like a pep rally for nearly 26 hours.
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But they worry that the president's real preoccupation is the United States trade deficit, an issue both government officials and economists say Europe is largely powerless to alter.
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It happens so often that I think many feel powerless to stop them so the default is to either ignore them or solemnly shake your head in silence.
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It is tempting to think that wage stagnation is intractable, a result of long-term trends, like automation and globalization, that government is powerless to do anything about.
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Village elders said a delegation met with government officials in Farah city to demand they rebuild the schools, but were told that the government was powerless to intervene.
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The coronavirus that is sweeping the globe is tearing the heart out of Iran, and the thugs who rule that nation appear powerless to even slow its spread.
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The court was powerless to consider the issue, he wrote, because the plaintiffs had not shown that their own voting power in their own districts had been diluted.
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For some of the most powerful companies in the world, the tech giants sure do seem powerless to get the president to do what they want, don't they?
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They're fighting smaller battles, ones about often career-ruining personal injustices, like being harassed or bullied by a manager, and feel powerless to find a course of retribution.
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Pelosi, powerless to block that spending bill because Ryan rallied the votes on his own, has said the fight was always dependent on the timing of the omnibus.
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Something is deeply broken inside the world, it seemed to say, and even God (or at least his approximation, played here by Ray Wise) was powerless to do much.
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But he also spoke of his frustration that he, like many who wish Israel well, have proved powerless to shift it from what they see as a disastrous course.
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In Mobile, as well as Arizona, Trump played to the fears of his mostly white base of support and scapegoated people who are essentially powerless to stand against him.
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Trump's move to end DACA has left prominent Democrats, Latino leaders, donors, and advocates who had been powerless to save the policy turning to what they will do next.
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But Cersei vowed to keep Ellaria alive so she would have to suffer the way Cersei did because of Ellaria's actions, watching her daughter die, powerless to stop it.
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But Nigeria's government has proven powerless to recover the girls, most of whom were Christian, and are believed to have been forced by their captors to convert to Islam.
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The chances of Trump being removed from office remain low, CNN's Stephen Collinson says, but the President seems powerless to save himself from the historical scar of impeachment. 2.
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But when four gunmen hit the quiet town of Grand Bassam, it took elite troops 45 minutes to arrive and local security guards were powerless to stop the killing.
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In the meantime, our Constitution leaves us powerless to protect against those waiting for the right moment to subvert our electoral system, assuming they have not already done so.
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Pards has had high moments at club level, but it's impossible to deny that Crystal Palace badly under-performed last season and he seemed powerless to turn things around.
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" Marc A. Thiessen wrote in the Washington Post that, "If Obama really wanted to pass either the Dream Act or comprehensive immigration reform, Republicans were powerless to stop him.
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For the most part, Trump's orders are merely aspirational: While they may require federal agencies to start drawing up plans or reviewing procedures, they're largely powerless to set policy.
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By the time Mata's mother realized what was happening, that she was never going to see her child again, she was powerless to stop the wheels that were turning.
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He also felt powerless to stop the stock's slide considering he was in Los Angeles and Ackman was in New York, where the story was just starting to spiral.
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Those two realities are creating a slow-motion disaster for Republicans, the vast majority of whom -- OK, everyone but Donald Trump -- are powerless to do absolutely anything about it.
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If he was powerless to resist the urge to bite Lisa Levy's nipple almost clean off, then, the thinking goes, Lisa Levy must have really meant something to him.
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But they go beyond most other opponents by launching a groundless assault on the career civil servants who worked on the delay, and who are powerless to defend themselves.
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If this happens, and if they do not reverse course and confirm Garland after the election, Senate Republicans may be powerless to stop the confirmation of a genuine liberal.
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Yet, as Ms. Goerke made clear, Elektra is all talk, a young woman who has adopted the identity of the avenging child and seems powerless to take any action.
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Other educators told Ms. DeVos that they felt powerless to manage bad behavior in their classrooms and were pressured by administrators to turn a blind eye to dangerous incidents.
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DeLauro's concerns are resonating among progressives who seem powerless to stop the deal at this point, especially given the level of Republican support in the House for the measure.
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In "Real Magic," the actors themselves are stuck in a cosmic loop-de-loop, seemingly powerless to stop repeating their actions until they collapse from exhaustion — or we do.
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Despite the earlier law seeking to avert a no-deal departure, that sequence of events would have left Parliament powerless to stop a no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31.
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The Republican Party has long been led by the rich and the powerful, who have won election after election by persuading the lowly and powerless to vote for them.
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"Too often following a mass shooting, we learn that people who knew the shooter saw warning signs of potential violence but felt powerless to do anything," the report states.
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As President Trump prepares to announce his replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Democrats are desperate to block the president&aposs nominee -- but are powerless to so.
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That being said, the frustration of being utterly powerless to do anything about a malfunctioning phone animates the early scenes before it emerges that the app has real supernatural malevolence.
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They couldn't believe how stupid we were with what's going on, where somebody comes in from Mexico and just walks right into our country and we're powerless to do anything.
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Koons and Sherman have both failed at this task, making work that is as fascinating as art as it is powerless to deconstruct the blue chip art world's social dislocation.
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No amount of petitions or signatures to the President will matter: the chief executive is powerless to pardon a prisoner like Avery, who was convicted in a Wisconsin state court.
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Earlier in the hearing, Burnham repeated Justice Department arguments that the House isn't powerless to enforce its subpoenas because of its ability to pass legislation, withhold appropriations or pursue impeachment.
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We're living in an age of misinformation, making it all the more fortunate that the media—though powerless to rig an election—still has enough power to spread the truth.
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And as much as brands take measures to copyright their designs, they are virtually powerless to stop fast-fashion giants like H&M, Topshop and Forever 21 from copying them.
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It's the warrior of the zodiac, and when it's moving backward and not being its usual self, the energy can feel anywhere from limp and powerless to unruly and explosive.
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The rule is a controversial one as it means that national governments are powerless to intervene in their country's soccer federation even when they suspect cases of mismanagement or corruption.
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Saudi oil facilities were severely damaged on Saturday in what appears to have been a drone and cruise missile strike, increasingly prolific threats the country was largely powerless to stop.
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Thinking that Mr. Laachraoui would not return to Belgium, he said the Schaerbeek borough had struck him off the electoral roll in 2015 but had been powerless to do more.
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A failed chief of the Pentagon's primary intelligence unit, his maverick personality made him powerless to change U.S. policy, and now he's almost certainly resentful at having been pushed out.
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Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that federal courts were powerless to hear challenges to gerrymandered district maps and closed to door on legal arguments against partisan maps.
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And China's judges, under firm party control, often appear powerless to reject confessions that were initially given in shuanggui detention, even when claims of torture appear to be well founded.
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Chicago State students have done their best to make their voices heard, holding several protests in downtown Chicago, but ultimately they're almost powerless to determine the future of their school.
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When we feel powerless to stop the hatred and injustice directed at our people, we should remember art's potential to enlighten the uninformed and to slowly eat away at prejudice.
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In fact, under the deal, private businesses will still be allowed to deny trans people the bathroom for their gender identity — and local governments will be powerless to stop them.
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He says the American people have had their pockets picked long enough by corporate lobbyists who have crafted a system in which the government is powerless to negotiate better prices.
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Held behind bars as they pleaded for asylum, these men say they watched people around them receiving poor medical care, but -- despite their years of training -- felt powerless to help.
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The only voice of real leadership came from former President Obama, the titular head of the Democratic Party, who reminded us that "we are not powerless" to curtail this violence.
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AB 813 has been amended several times in response to criticisms; opponents of regionalization still contend that it's powerless to prevent the feds or other states from interfering with California policy.
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The symbolism of the empire Jamie and Cersei had worked to build crumbling around them, whilst powerless to do anything to stop it is a great way to finish her arc.
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They couldn't believe how stupid we were with everything that's going on where somebody comes in from Mexico and just walks right into our country and we're powerless to do anything.
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But Mr Kelly is powerless to shield the president from his favourite channel, which runs reports on the scheming deep state and the need to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel.
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It's limited to the spectator mode that lets you watch other matches, all while you're powerless to do anything besides toss around a few virtual chairs and watch the apocalypse unfold.
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Even when Halep went 3-1 ahead in the decider, she never seemed in control and once Ostapenko's charge began she was powerless to hold off the new pride of Riga.
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Armed with a hockey stick, opposable thumbs, and a leash, the SpotMini's master is powerless to stop his ward from using its weird head-claw to barge into the next room.
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Like many other Nigerian farmers who have lost their land, he felt powerless to do anything but campaigners are now trying to raise awareness among small scale farmers of their rights.
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If his team hadn't quickly stepped in and pressurized the chamber, he may have been able to survive for a couple minutes, but he would have been powerless to save himself.
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The presidential campaign has evolved into an all-against-all dog pile, in which bullies claim that they are powerless to represent themselves against this new bullying mob that bullies bullies.
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He held a 13-9 lead in the first set and was 8-5 in the second but was powerless to maintain the pressure against an opponent virtually impenetrable in defense.
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If BoJack were in a 12-step program, he would be stuck at Step 1: admitting that his life is unmanageable and that he is powerless to do anything about it.
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Those final three games were beautiful, mesmerizing, and almost vicariously painful; the San Antonio Spurs performed a vivisection of the Miami Heat, who were powerless to stop or even impede them.
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But what McConnell didn't acknowledge is that voter ID laws like the one already on the books in North Carolina are powerless to stop the sort of election fraud in question.
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And, of course, since the charges are pending in New York, and not with the Mueller probe, Trump is essentially powerless to try to fire his way out of the mess.
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In the past, Mr. Trump could take such striking action with little fear of repercussions from Capitol Hill; Republicans were reluctant to challenge him, and Democrats were powerless to do so.
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But opponents of mitochondrial replacement therapy say that in this case, to proceed with such trials would be to subject future humans to an experiment that they are powerless to oppose.
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Politicians have done absolutely nothing to protect America's schoolkids, and while school administrators feel powerless to provide real safety from firearms, they're scrambling to find design solutions for a political problem.
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HK officials stalling, or powerless to act As the smoke and tear gas clears after the weekend's violence, escalation on both sides appears to be the only thing on the cards.
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Much to the surprise of you and the large majority of those with a vested interest in the project, your member of Congress is powerless to move the repair project forward.
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Such meager tools leave federal officials nearly powerless to regulate the makeup, lotions, toothpastes, deodorants and other elixirs that often are applied to the most intimate parts of the human body.
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As the US Supreme Court declared in 1942: 'freedom to think is absolute of its own nature; the most tyrannical government is powerless to control the inward workings of the mind.
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"He is fascinated by her, with this woman who was so powerful and yet is so dissatisfied and is full of self loathing and is powerless to change her circumstances," Zellweger says.
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In a state like Texas with a Republican supermajority, Democratic lawmakers can feel powerless to prevent the passage of anti-abortion bills, much less to advance legislation that actually promotes women's health.
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One day, life is irrevocably changed when he discovers Rie (Arisa Sato) being sexually assaulted by Tatsuya and Kengo in a boat shed on the beach but is powerless to stop them.
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He knows the past and he knows what's going to happen ... there's a good chance that Sansa is going to do something really awful and he knows he's powerless to prevent it.
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Democrats, while largely powerless to stop the changes President Donald Trump and his party are making to the country, most of which they abhor, struggle meanwhile to suppress a feeling of euphoria.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Even U.S. First Lady Melania Trump was powerless to keep Friday's first face-to-face meeting of the U.S. and Russian presidents from running nearly twice as long as planned.
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While employers can't legally ban workers from bringing harassment or discrimination charges against them, they can still make employees sign off on language that could make them feel powerless to speak out.
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The head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday he is powerless to reunite migrant children with their parents unless Congress changes the laws regarding detention time limits.
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But while he can spin new stories for the media to chase, the President seems powerless to stop Mueller's relentless focus on his own conduct in the 2016 campaign and ever since.
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The message, according to several participants of those meetings, has been that bump stocks remain legal under current law and that the agency is powerless to make the change without congressional action.
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I spoke with a woman last year whose son had schizophrenia and refused to take his medications — but the law made her powerless to have her child receive the care he needed.
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Instead, she connects Sanders and the Sanders campaign not to a particular policy proposal but to a sense of personal efficacy: And I knew I was powerless to do anything about it.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - European countries are powerless to salvage the nuclear deal with Iran after the United States pulled out, the deputy head of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Thursday.
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Steele said part of this year's campaign was inspired by the rise of discourse insinuating the climate crisis is outside of the hands of individuals, leaving them to feel powerless to change.
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"I feel powerless to change anything, and I don't think my vote even counts due to the Electoral College, but I do vote anyway out of principle," wrote Ashley Silverthorne from Minnesota.
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Erdrich ends the book, in the afterword's closing, with a kind of blessing: "If you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change … let this book give you heart."
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That we're feeling powerless to turn this public health crisis around, but the physical and emotional health of our country and the financial impact of obesity do not afford us much time.
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To maintain that the lack of a codified and comprehensive list of all the outrageous acts that a president might conceivably commit renders Congress powerless to remove such a president defies reason.
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GOP leaders were powerless to force Democrats, who were calling for action on gun control legislation, off the House floor in the aftermath of the shooting at Pulse Nightclub this past summer.
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And since that is usually the only way of deciding these matters, such a poisoning of the wells of belief leaves us powerless to make any further decisions about what to believe.
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When Mr. Trump's lawyers went to court to try to block the subpoena, they argued that the committee was powerless to obtain his records because it had no legislative need for them.
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Because most detainees are poor and do not speak fluent English, they are virtually powerless to defend themselves in court, said Karen Lucas, associate director of advocacy at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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And of course it's doubly shocking because we've seen her, years later, utterly defeated and powerless to stop Nilfgaard from laying waste to her capital in the wake of a very swift invasion.
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The review was chaired by economist Jim O'Neill and he warned in the report that the world was already witnessing the alarming rise of "superbugs" that doctors are powerless to prevent or cure.
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Detention, a terrifying and bleak horror game by Red Candle Games, asks a far tougher question: Is there anything scarier than tasting freedom and happiness, then finding yourself completely powerless to keep them?
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But thanks to the rise of one of her quotes as a catchall mantra for feminism, she's seen her own words turned into a cash machine, one that she is powerless to stop.
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The Mercedes driver, who finished fifth in Azerbaijan's first grand prix, said he had spent much of the race distracted and wrestling with his car's engine settings while engineers were powerless to help.
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U.S. ally Saudi Arabia has shown its willingness to buck Obama by going ahead with the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric, provoking a feud with Iran that Washington appears powerless to quell.
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But the thousands of families who have lost loved ones in the desert often feel powerless to complain, because they either live outside the country or include undocumented members who risk deportation themselves.
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In April 2019 the Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit decided, 2-1, that the district court was powerless to stay deportations, even though Iraqis face persecution, torture or death if deported.
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Murray and Kerber were playing their first grand slams as top seeds and both looked all but powerless to deal with the style of game they were confronted with from across the net.
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The Studio by John Gregory Dunne (1968) Josh Greenfeld was a good friend of the Didion-Dunnes; he was also a writer, meaning he was powerless to keep himself from telling a story.
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The president can casually exercise his discretionary power to pardon Mr. Arpaio, who abused prisoners in his care, but then claims he is powerless to end a policy worthy of Sheriff Joe himself.
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It feels like there is a thick pane of glass separating me from the outside world, and because of my physical disability, I begin to believe that I am powerless to break through.
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That opens the prospect of the United States' being powerless to stop the return to Russia of a suspect who may be able to offer valuable information on Russian meddling in the election.
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"There were times when the loss of our children, the unbelievable accusations against my husband and the feeling that we were powerless to right the wrongs – were overwhelming," Lorina Troy tells KXAN-TV.
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What's happening: It's becoming clear to more economists and market participants that the Fed's toolkit is losing its effectiveness and monetary policy may be powerless to protect the economy if there's a recession.
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Sanctions have proved powerless to push Turkey out of Cyprus; to move Colombia, Venezuela or Nigeria to comply with Washington's war on drugs; to persuade India or Pakistan to abandon their nuclear arsenals.
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In an interview, Ms. Jubay, who was recently transferred to a nearby district, says she was powerless to question a police report concluding that farmers had entered a field they did not own.
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For one thing, Judge Jackson's 120-page opinion offers a lengthy rejoinder to the Trump administration view that Congress is largely powerless to compel the executive branch to comply with its legal obligations.
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The family of Elliot Rodger, who went on a misogynistic killing spree in Santa Barbara, California, in 2014, was similarly worried about his threatening behaviors and similarly powerless to do much about it.
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But Carter was devastated by the 1980 election as a result of economic malaise and the Iran hostage crisis, which made it seem as if the United States was powerless to stop any threat.
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Schwarz returned to his feet but was powerless to evade a flurry of punches and his corner threw in the towel at about the same time the referee stepped in to stop the fight.
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At some South Korean companies, officials grumble that their government is powerless to counter China and has not done enough in the face of what they see as unfair subsidies and other trade practices.
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After all the suspense and expectation, Hamilton chalked up his 10th win of the season, and fourth in a row, but was powerless to do anything about the championship outcome despite making every effort.
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Captain McCullum bowed out of international cricket fittingly with the fastest test century in his final match, but was powerless to prevent his side from slumping to another emphatic defeat in Christchurch on Wednesday.
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Donald Trump's presidency will be powerless to prevent U.S. government debt from soaring beyond $20 trillion in under eight weeks, Marc Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, told CNBC's "Street Signs".
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Why does this deeply cursed film exists, who thought it would be a good idea, what kind of masochist would actually pay money to go see it—all questions we are powerless to answer.
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In a brief phone interview, Ms. Nixon said "Andrew Cuomo can't have it both ways" — claiming he was powerless to corral the I.D.C. for years and then taking credit for it disbanding on Wednesday.
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But beyond rhetoric, the government is mostly powerless to force the hands of gas station owners as its ability to set prices ended in late November after it finalized a gradual, nationwide fuel liberalization.
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The quota's proponents seem to be assuming either that shareholders are unable to determine on their own that diversity is in their financial self-interest, or that they are powerless to achieve that outcome.
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A Paris firefighter spoke about the desperate battle against blaze roaring through the centuries-old cathedral, from feeling "powerless" to realizing what strategy the firefighters should take to stop the iconic building from collapsing.
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Republicans are expected to nudge as many nominees as possible across the Senate floor before the end of the year, infuriating Democrats and their allies who are powerless to derail Trump's picks (The Hill).
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As if air travel isn't miserable enough already, passengers aboard a few select Southwest flights will now be subjected to live concerts, which—at 35,000 feet above the earth—they'll be powerless to escape.
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He was planning to ride out the storm inside the Footlight Player's Theater, where he would use a ShopVac to try to minimize flooding, though he knew he was powerless to prevent it entirely.
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If congressional leadership, for example, was in criminal cahoots with the president, no one would want the special counsel to be powerless to indict or to report information to the full Congress for impeachment.
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As the plot thickens, the Observer "can feel the gears of cause and effect locking together, increasing in rotational velocity," but believes itself powerless to intervene, and is unsure if it really cares to.
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"I started volunteering at YouthLine because I felt like a lot of my friends were coming to me with these really intense issues and I felt powerless to help them," said Katarina Grealish, 212.
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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday he backed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan but was powerless to stop a police investigation into him, signaling a prolonged tussle that could rock markets further.
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Ronnie reminds Hiram that the citizens of Riverdale might be powerless to stop his accelerating evil deeds — remember, Lodge family matriarch Hermione (Marisol Nichols) is the mayor — but the world will see what's going on.
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Houston grabbed a 28-0 lead when Ward hit Dunbar on a 15-yard pass with 1:103 left in the first half, and the Huskies proved powerless to slow Ward or the Cougars' onslaught.
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He first appeared about six months ago, his impish face rising up from the bottom of hundreds of web pages, smiling serenely like he knew some catastrophe was coming that I'd be powerless to stop.
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But if the administration declines to respond, the tribunal has the authority to impose a decision that, while powerless to arrest or imprison the agents, could have an impact on federal policy down the road.
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African states have every right to feel aggrieved that, having decided who should control the web address of the continent, they are as powerless to enforce their wishes as they were in Berlin in 1884.
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But it was compounded by another strategic decision by Trump: To cast the border crisis as something that not only wasn't his fault but that he was powerless to fix -- neither of which were true.
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Entrepreneurs everywhere can now solve the problems of humanity Not long ago, venture capitalists were talking about how Bitcoin was going to transform the global currency system and render governments powerless to police monetary transactions.
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Not the children at the greatest risk of child marriage, who are nearly powerless to prevent a forced marriage or, even if they enter a marriage willingly, to leave it if they change their minds.
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Should the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio decide to appeal, it might find itself in the awkward position of arguing that the landmarks commission was effectively powerless to stop the privatization of interior landmarks.
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While Hayhoe was able to publicly dispute the incorrect claims, other authors of the report, particularly the federal employees, may feel powerless to confront an administration that's been so hostile to them in the past.
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President Trump has signed an executive order intended to end the child migration crisis he created, only five days after telling Fox News that he was powerless to use an executive order to fix it.
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While Voyager 2 will keep collecting and sending back science data, should something go wrong, members of the team will be powerless to help it, and will just have to watch with their hands tied.
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Despite pumping millions of dollars into transparency efforts around paid-for messages, social media companies have been powerless to stop misinformation as it has shifted toward so-called organic content like people's regular online posts.
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Constrained by his party's perilous electoral prospects and the accusations of sexual misconduct he himself has faced in the past, the president is virtually powerless to influence the outcome of perhaps his administration's top priority.
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The big picture: Powell's speech was a daunting admission that the all-powerful Federal Reserve may be powerless to stop a recession if it reaches the U.S. — at least with its current box of tools.
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United States officials are already grappling with Russian attempts to interfere in the 2020 presidential race, and are powerless to stop American tricksters from joining the fray, because they are protected by the First Amendment.
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Madison in 1803, concluded that the executive branch had violated petitioner William Marbury's property rights (by rescinding a commission) but that the courts were powerless to compel the executive branch to comply with the law.
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The broadcast rights to those events are worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but soccer's leaders have been powerless to defend the interests of the rights holders or pursue legal remedies in court.
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The broadcast rights to those events are worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but soccer's leaders have been powerless to defend the interests of the rights holders or pursue legal remedies in court.
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And as they lay siege to the embassy, setting fire to buildings and effectively blockading embassy personnel in the embassy overnight, Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi found that he was powerless to get them to leave.
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And as they lay siege to the embassy, setting fire to buildings and effectively blockading embassy personnel in the embassy overnight, Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi found that he was powerless to get them to leave.
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" But he points out that we have "this fundamental belief that we are powerless to do anything other than go to meetings and suffer through these poorly run meetings and live to meet another day.
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"We rightly praise the growth of companies like GKN and their location in the UK. And yet when we are facing the possible destruction of that company, we are powerless to act," he will say.
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In the end though, the pro-EU camp was powerless to stop a tide of anti-establishment feeling and disenchantment with a Europe that many Britons see as remote, bureaucratic and mired in permanent crises.
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Kalayjian, who specializes in treating the effects of trauma through her nonprofit organization Meaningful World, says that observing horror you feel powerless to stop can trigger feelings of depression, anxiety, and even suicidal thoughts and behavior.
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The nationwide protests that led to the recent impeachment of Park Geun-hye were in part motivated by a sense that the political system is rigged, and that ordinary South Koreans are powerless to change it.
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Both of those currencies have been treated as safe havens by investors sharing growing concerns that much of the developed world is falling into a debilitating cycle of deflation that central banks are powerless to stop.
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North Korea said last year it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and has been ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations appear powerless to contain.
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In the forty years since, we have grappled with the question of what such a score really means—what kind of athlete it is reserved for, and which aspects of gymnastics it is powerless to describe.
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Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Science Committee, is really aiming at: handing over even more power to industry to boost their profits by making the EPA and other agencies powerless to protect Americans.
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Gonzalez entered the final kilometer in the lead but she was powerless to stop Liu's late onslaught on a hot and humid day, crossing the line 0.02 seconds behind the 29-year-old world record holder.
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That may be because he's effectively powerless to push back: The sanctions passed by such an overwhelming, bipartisan majority that if Trump vetoed them, Congress would almost certainly override him and pass them into law anyway.
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"McDonald's likes to say that it is powerless to stop the sexual harassment occurring in its franchise restaurants," said Gillian Thomas, a senior staff attorney with the A.C.L.U. Women's Rights Project, in a statement on Tuesday.
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The excerpt from the O'Donnell interview comes near the end of film, when the commotion around Mr. Weiner's sexting history had escalated into a media frenzy that Mr. Weiner, a scrappy fighter, was powerless to subdue.
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The party's base, including Tea Party insurgents and evangelicals, had become furious with a Republican leadership powerless to halt the growing diversification, racial inclusiveness and cultural openness of American life, which it associated with Mr. Obama.
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With many people feeling powerless to stop logging, Pavol took the lead and became a protest leader, campaigning, setting up road blocks to prevent the movement of logs, and circulating petitions to build support against logging.
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Writing to Mr. Reedie last month, Mr. Thune disputed that WADA had been powerless to act, citing the agency's "broad authority to investigate" since 2004, six years before it received the first known whistle-blower tip.
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There is a real danger of returning to a time where any one of us, anywhere in the world, could pick up such an infection and find that medicine is powerless to save us from dying.
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"The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners — and I felt powerless to do anything about it," she wrote.
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They shared an optimism that the internet would be a platform for the powerless to find a voice and that Rappler, which is a hybrid of "rap" and "ripple," would be a vehicle for social change.
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The court said that federal courts were powerless to hear challenges to warped voting maps drawn under partisan interests, and it delayed the Trump administration's efforts to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census.
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The law pertains to the sexual abuse not just of minors, but also of people considered "vulnerable" because they are physically or mentally disabled or because their situation leaves them feeling powerless to stop the abuse.
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For all his wit (which his defenders don't seem to realize he can still use outside of the Senate), he was powerless to stop almost all Trump nominees from perjuring themselves successfully through the confirmation process.
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Three cases will be argued before the Supreme Court on March 31 focusing on Trump's contention that a House committee and a New York City prosecutor are powerless to enforce subpoenas to obtain his financial records.
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Still, disasters can and sometimes do occur from the use of cosmetics and personal care products, and the government is powerless to act until a slew of consumer complaints raise a red flag about a product.
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If even a very conservative Supreme Court is asked to rule that the government is powerless to stop hostile foreign interests from surreptitiously acting to influence our elections, I have difficulty believing it will do so.
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However, both spinners were powerless to prevent Steve Smith and George Bailey from blasting vital hundreds as they stitched together a 242-run stand for the third wicket that took the match out of India's hands.
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While tens of thousands of chemicals have flooded the market, and scientists have linked some of them to diseases like cancer and Parkinson's, EPA has been powerless to limit or restrict even the most dangerous ones.
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But it was powerless to resist another broad surge for the greenback following more bullish data on the U.S. economy that added to expectations of higher inflation and more rises in official interest rates next year.
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The Ukraine scandal showed that Trump is willing to abuse his power to cheat in this year's election, that most Republicans support those efforts, and that Congress as an institution is effectively powerless to stop him.
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At a time when many Americans feel powerless to effect change — and some are deeply concerned about the health of their democracy — it's worth highlighting those instances when democracy actually works the way it's supposed to.
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Poor standards of military housing were highlighted by recent Reuters reporting, which described rampant mold and pest infestations, childhood lead poisoning, and service families often powerless to challenge private landlords in business with their military employers.
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They may be powerless to fully protect their vast holdings of U.S. Treasuries when the market turns and prices start falling, a long process that many observers say we are in the early stages of right now.
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The former world number one wasted two chances to break back as Monfils served at 5-4 and was powerless to stop the elastic-limbed Frenchman taking the opening set with a volley after running Djokovic ragged.
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The Wisconsin case, Gill v Whitford, ended in an anti-climatic fizzle: the plaintiffs lacked the requisite "standing" to sue, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, so the court is powerless to evaluate the merits of their claims.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The head of France's new anti-corruption agency (AFA) says one-year old legislation designed to bolster the fight against corporate graft should be overhauled because he is almost powerless to go after foreign companies.
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The United States is likely to succeed in shutting down the World Trade Organization's supreme court because other WTO members are powerless to stop it, diplomats, lawyers and officials said at a conference in Geneva on Friday.
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It was that Satyr knew who to put in these videos—exactly the person in exactly the sexual situation that your erotic brain was powerless to resist: a colleague, your boss, a former lover, an unrequited crush.
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His denunciations of Wall Street "oligarchs" and complaints of a "rigged" economy and a "corrupt" campaign finance system play into the feelings of his supporters that they are powerless to address the worsening conditions of their lives.
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With Lam's victory on the cards, some middle class residents see the lack of democracy again fuelling political division and fresh protests, leaving them powerless to tackle livelihood issues such as high property prices and rising inequality.
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If it turned its stockpiles of customer cash toward, for example, arming one of the many Seattle separatist movements, Starbucks could fundamentally change the makeup of the United States, and we'd be mostly powerless to stop it.
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Everything was falling apart, and she felt powerless to stop it—her heroin use had ruined her relationship with her parents and broke up a romantic relationship of five years, and she started getting sick more frequently.
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A woman stayed not because she was a masochist (a then popular theory), or because she was in some other way disturbed, but because a batterer's relentless psychological abuse convinced her that she was powerless to escape.
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Ibrahim Suffian, the director of the Merdeka Center, an independent polling agency in Malaysia, said surveys showed that two-thirds of the public were unhappy with Mr. Najib, yet people feel powerless to remove him from office.
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Washington (CNN)Senate Republicans face a dire reality in Alabama following sexual misconduct accusations about Roy Moore, their Senate nominee in Alabama: They want Moore gone from the race but are largely powerless to make that happen.
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Many will argue that by striking down Title II, the statutory authority under which net neutrality was enforced nationwide, the FCC clipped its own wings, leaving it powerless to enforce its new rules or oppose state ones.
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His fear, though, is that the case will drag on until November, when his son will turn 18, and Mr. Orsini will be powerless to stop him from finishing his senior season, or from playing in college.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that federal courts are powerless to hear challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which the party that controls the state legislature draws voting maps to help elect its candidates.
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Mr. Biden didn't say he failed to give Ms. Hill the kind of hearing she deserved; he said he "couldn't" give her such a hearing, thus hinting at some sort of force he was powerless to stop.
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I learned then that even when I felt powerless to control my job or education — or anything else that seemed out of my hands — I always had control over my own mind and how I treated others.
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The Woman, after pulling stray words and thoughts together with obvious difficulty, tells of the drowning of her 7-year-old son at play, which she witnessed but — "riveted to the ground…frozen" — was powerless to prevent.
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In January, 75 PCC members escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a brazen jailbreak that top security officials knew was coming, but were powerless to stop, because the gang had so many prison guards under its sway.
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And just as the surviving family members of patients with incurable cancers know that they were powerless to stop the progression of the disease, so are the survivors of a person with depression who dies by suicide.
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That could mean that soon after Congress reconvenes next month, Mr. Trump could find himself nearly powerless to shape a long-promised overhaul of the tax code, and deprived of funds for his long-promised border wall.
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After the soldier's defense was changed, the court focused its attention on the question of whether he had known that the Palestinian on the ground was powerless to act, or if it was possible to think otherwise.
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Not Republicans, who are poised to "plow right through" to his confirmation no matter what (and will likely face consequences for it in November), nor Democrats, who have been so far largely powerless to derail this charade.
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Like an increase in body temperature in order to kill a disease, our male-centric society has developed instinctual, often subconscious methods to protect powerful men at the expense of women, leaving them powerless to speak up.
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The Team Fortress 2 problem was particularly egregious in that a paid mod allowed unscrupulous players to essentially god mode through the game for years as developer Valve's built-in anticheating measures were powerless to stop it.
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In an interview with PEOPLE in May, the prince talked about his frustrations that despite being well trained and flying a multi-million dollar Apache helicopter, he felt powerless to help as he flew missions to save lives.
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That is because as long as all cannabis-specific products remain federally illegal, the FDA is largely powerless to provide or enforce appropriate regulatory standards, oversight, or quality controls to separate the bad actors from the good ones.
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There have been instances in which the rare-book community has been powerless to recover books: when they are taken by bibliophiles with no intention of reselling, said James Cummins, the proprietor of James Cummins Bookseller in Manhattan.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Donald Trump canceled a planned speech to a major gathering of conservatives at the last minute on Friday, leading to further frustration from an an already-furious group that's been powerless to stop his rise.
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Cummings ran through most of his opponents at the Eddie Bravo Invitational with the kind of game that everyone either loves or hates: everyone knows exactly what he's going to do, but everyone seems powerless to stop it.
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Anyone in a position of power telling someone who is comparatively powerless to not talk about their personal experience or their knowledge of someone else's experience—as he is alleged to have done—comes off as a threat.
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But the culture of entitlement and denial, sometimes called rape culture, that too often keeps sex-crime victims silent does not mean that the victims "let" you do anything, even if they felt too powerless to seek recourse.
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But a health professional from another team, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said many of the teams were not seeing patients and felt powerless to help with the main need, which is a stable power supply.
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On March 6900, 2628, the one-two punch from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the tsunami wave it triggered left workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan powerless to prevent three reactors from melting down.
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But while Washington fixates over the partisan stakes of the funding drama, the real victims of the latest lurch into government dysfunction are powerless to influence their fates, and can only look on in rising panic and fear.
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On Saturday, in the same City of Light where five months earlier he was powerless to prevent Djokovic completing a career grand slam by winning their French Open final, the Scot finally caught up with his elusive rival.
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Without such meaningful reform, changes in the law won't matter, particularly to individual veterans trapped at the hands of bureaucrats, if the organizational culture remains powerless to do anything against those who choose not to follow the law.
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But a blistering cross-court service return in the fifth game allowed the Scot to finally break Raonic's momentum and from then on the Canadian third seed, who hurled down 14 aces, was powerless to stop Murray's victory charge.
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Illness and age addle us all, and it is the mark of a civil society to protect those citizens who are powerless to protect themselves Our doctors must therefore be fundamentally invested in saving our lives, not taking them.
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That club is then powerless to intervene as Barcelona swoops, first reminding the player of his roots, then securing his willingness for a move and, finally, using that to drive down the transfer fee, hence completing the inevitable coup.
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Senate Democrats are powerless to stop the Republican majority from confirming Sessions later this afternoon, but the incident gave Democrats a very public argument to show their voters that they did everything they could to try and stop Sessions.
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Andy Mok, non-resident fellow at Beijing-based think tank Center for China and Globalization, pointed to a sentiment that Beijing is trying to emphasize the U.S. is powerless to make the Asian country act against its own interests.
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"I don't know what the public interest value would be in this instance, but I do see how the information's availability through the Internet Archive could create additional harm that I'm powerless to justify in any way," he admitted.
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Richard Rowe, the CEO of Arkema's North America unit, told reporters Wednesday that the company expects the plant will catch fire or explode at some point in the next six days, and that it is powerless to stop it.
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We are powerless to foment a revolution while working two part-time jobs to make ends meet, so all we can do is register a protest against the Dickensian nightmare that the elites have created for us by voting.
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We changed the equation by activating not only faith leaders, survivors, educators, and law enforcement leaders -- all of whom had standing to lead -- but also interested bystanders and ordinary neighbors who until then had felt too powerless to act.
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Union officials also said they hoped the joint efforts would prevent politicians from playing one union against the other when raising money for their campaigns, a practice the unions said they found exasperating but were often powerless to stop.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States is likely to succeed in shutting down the World Trade Organization's supreme court because other WTO members are powerless to stop it, diplomats, lawyers and officials said at a conference in Geneva on Friday.
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The network has during the past year and a half fruitlessly pushed for comprehensive health care and immigration reform, and like other leading conservative groups, the network has been powerless to persuade the President to rethink policies they oppose.
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The report: Former Director James Comey made the phone the focal point of Congressional testimony in 2016 that the FBI was powerless to conduct some investigations without new laws or a court order to allow it access encrypted data.
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But American officials have appeared powerless to secure their release, and it has become increasingly clear that the detainees are potential bargaining chips in a long-running effort by Turkey to force the American government to extradite Mr. Gulen.
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To tell his story, Vargas Llosa employs the familiar telenovela technique of alternating chapters among different characters, allowing the destinies of the lowborn and the high, the powerful and the powerless, to intersect in ways they themselves never see.
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He considers the congressman a centrist too willing to go along with the president on issues like repealing the Affordable Care Act and too powerless to move his colleagues to the middle on issues like immigration and climate change.
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Indeed, Emma Goldman had been a dinner guest in his home, and he had managed, in 1917, to prevent her from being deported, although he was powerless to do so two years later, when the laws had been tightened.
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So far, that has not happened, and James F. Jeffrey, the State Department's special envoy on Syria and the Islamic State, said it was unclear if Russia was powerless to curb Mr. al-Assad or simply chose not to.
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North Korea conducted the nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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Sexual predators often seek out people who may be too powerless to resist them, and too marginalized to be taken seriously when they try to speak about their experiences — if they can even bring themselves to speak at all.
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In Lewin's extensive work in China, he has noticed a consistent pattern: When a product or category proves to be popular, the number of counterfeits explodes, and brands are powerless to stop it, no matter how much policing they do.
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The contrast was striking with the ultimately unsuccessful 1991 coup by hardliners against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was reduced to listening to BBC World Service radio at his Crimean holiday home, powerless to intervene as events unfolded in Moscow.
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He specializes in realistic dramas with a roiling class anger beneath them, movies about the ways ordinary people's lives are disrupted and upended by systems that render them powerless to change even as they try everything in their power to change.
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The soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson was needle-sharp but petite-voiced as Lola, her rival; as Mamma Lucia, the mezzo-soprano Jane Bunnell projected the archetypal weariness of a mother powerless to stop the tragedy unfolding in front of her eyes.
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McGahn and other important witnesses — including his former top aide Annie Donaldson, former White House communications advisor Hope Hicks, and others — have spurned Congressional subpoenas on direct orders from Trump's White House, which Democrats have so far proved powerless to override.
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North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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As Rodgers shredded the Chiefs on Sunday night, summoning his superior powers of extemporization in a three-touchdown performance, Mahomes, out with a dislocated kneecap, loitered on the Kansas City sideline, hands in his pockets, powerless to alter the outcome.
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With the Federal Reserve powerless to do much more than it already is, the best route to faster U.S. economic growth is through non-monetary policy approaches such as immigration and tax reform, a top Fed official argued on Monday.
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By expanding the scope of the background check system and modernizing its administration, the President is making all of us a bit safer and is sensibly addressing a national crisis that our paralyzed politics has thus far been powerless to resolve.
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North Korea said last year it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and has been ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations appear powerless to contain despite successive rounds of sanctions.
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The company reported that two explosions were heard at the facility in Crosby at 2 AM local time, just hours after the CEO of Arkema's North America unit, Richard Rowe, told reporters that the company was powerless to stop the explosions.
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The GOP has been trying for years to do both of these things, and now they have the chance to make both happen in one fell swoop — through a process that Democrats will be powerless to stop on their own.
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Wolff's main claims—that the Trump campaign didn't expect to win, that they were unprepared to take the reins of power, that Trump himself is unfit for office, and that his advisers are powerless to control him—all track with reality.
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Republicans view filling the lifetime court seats as their top priority and are expected to confirm as many nominees as possible before the Senate adjourns for the year, infuriating Democrats and their allies who are powerless to stop Trump's picks.
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He witnessed a dozen successful military coups and several attempted uprisings, and in his last years, his health failing, he appeared powerless to stem sometimes violent demonstrations, offering only vague appeals for unity and giving royal endorsement to two coups.
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But there is a danger to bad-faith takedowns of sitting presidents for events and outcomes they are powerless to dictate, because they raise misleading expectations about what America can and should be trying to accomplish in the world today.
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Even though, after the fact, you may be able to comb through your memories of the scene and recover the second aspect, the clouding of those memories (like damage to an old photograph) is something you are powerless to prevent.
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In this almost feature-length finale, we opened with a sequence of unheard-of continuity and focus attended by a lovely piano tinkle that seemed to underscore the audience's powerless to alert the folks in King's Landing to the imminent catastrophe.
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Knowing about Louis C.K., knowing about Harvey Weinstein, knowing about Kevin Spacey, knowing [insert name here] did [insert repugnant act here] but being powerless to broadcast these facts to the public doesn't make me complicit in the actions of these men.
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Harris's book gets its title from Lecter's remorseless probing of a terrifying, and personality-shaping, experience from Starling's childhood — the night she awoke to hear the cries of spring lambs being slaughtered and realized she was powerless to help them.
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Powerless to participate in the debate over independence for fear of Madrid withholding funding, the position of Catalan museums was a scary reminder that government support can be used against artists and arts organizations to maintain their silence on important issues.
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If governments feel themselves powerless to institute the tax policies and regulations needed to address the dislocations caused by economic and technological shocks, the solution is not just to seek more national autonomy but also to deploy it toward such reforms.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, two of the festival's programs revolve around one of New York's most-discussed mass transit disasters, which the MTA has seen coming for years yet seems powerless to adequately address: the shutdown of the L train in 2019.
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Norman J. Ornstein, a scholar on Congress at the American Enterprise Institute, said the spectacle of a floor fight over the speakership would do lasting damage to the Democratic majority, setting a narrative that any leader would be powerless to counter.
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"In a world where every day people increasingly feel powerless to business ... this is one of a few ways where consumers really have a lot of power," said Jeremy Robinson-Leon, president of Group Gordon, a New York strategic communications firm.
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You might have to dig deep, but it's important to find and use optimistic language so children don't feel that they are facing imminent threat nor that you as a family are powerless to affect positive change in the world.
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As I noted last week, Dershowitz asserted in 2018 that his bespoke interpretation of the Constitution's provisions on impeachment would leave Congress powerless to remove Trump from office even if he allowed Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade and annex Alaska.
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And while some Democratic hopefuls in the 2020 presidential race have embraced the idea of using emergency powers to fight climate change, the risk we take by leaving Congress powerless to stop abuses is far greater than any likely benefit.
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In 2011, the paper was the subject of "Page One: Inside The New York Times," a fly-on-the-wall documentary that focused on the media desk and, powerless to resist, allowed the columnist David Carr to steal the picture.
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North Korea on Friday conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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For those suffering from O.C.D., the anxiety is a bridge between the obsession and the compulsion; someone whose fear of germs causes him to wash his hands until they bleed knows his behavior is irrational but is powerless to stop himself.
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Finally, even if the president were to somehow extinguish all federal investigations of anyone he ever worked with or knew, he would remain powerless to interfere in any investigations by various state or local prosecutors of any violations of state law.
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Directed by Diary of a Teenage Girl's Marielle Heller with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, it's about loneliness and anxiety, about having barely two nickels to rub together, about panicking over a situation you feel powerless to fix.
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You know it's absolutely fucking absurd to be unable to get up to make soup or to reply to a text requiring a binary answer, yet you're powerless to halt the onslaught of feelings that such acts are beyond attempt.
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"It is abundantly clear that Jackson and his administration were determined to permit the extension of state sovereignty because it would result in the harassment of Indians, powerless to resist, by speculators and intruders hungry for Indian land," Wallace concludes.
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My personal favorite observation, "there are two kinds of people: those who think they're disgusting and those who agree they're disgusting but are powerless to resist them," could be applied to so many delicious foods that are universally regarded as pure garbage.
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EU rules on freedom of movement mean citizens are free to live and work anywhere in the 28-nation bloc, so eurosceptic opponents of Cameron argue Britain is powerless to control immigration unless it votes to leave the EU on June 23.
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ET. (CNBC) In a 22009,100-word essay released just after midnight, Kashkari wrote the Fed is powerless to do much more, and the best route to faster U.S. economic growth is through non-monetary policy approaches such as immigration and tax reform.
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"The vice-president of the United States of America had just touched me in an intimate way reserved for close friends, family, or romantic partners — and I felt powerless to do anything about it," she wrote in an op-ed published on Friday.
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To say that Wolfson's position is detached from the ecosystem of violence is an understatement; it evokes the puerile outbursts of gamergate trolls, removed from the conditions of the real world and paralyzing the viewer with a threat they're powerless to control.
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And without real access to the pope, and without the buy-in of players in the Roman curia, they were powerless to influence Francis' message or impose message discipline on a pope whose own blind spots have increasingly led him into danger.
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And some women have never really gotten over the fact that she did not leave her husband when she discovered he was having an affair, in the White House, with a girl far too young and powerless to be a genuinely willing partner.
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But they are relatively powerless to clamp down on this sort of grassroots, user-created misinformation that has become the bread-and-butter for how falsities spread across social media as fast as the virus itself is jumping from country to country.
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"Our conclusion is straightforward because the members — 29 senators and 186 members of the House of Representatives — do not constitute a majority of either body and are, therefore, powerless to approve or deny the president's acceptance of foreign emoluments," the judges wrote.
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The committee is a weak but admirable attempt at community action in a country where people are reluctant to complain and nobody cared much about the farmers whose land was vital to the project but who were powerless to defend their interests.
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In his view, the American people are powerless to remove a President for corruptly using his Office to cheat in the next election by soliciting and coercing a foreign power to sabotage a rival and spread conspiracy theories helpful to the President.
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Powerless to prevent slum dwellers from banking and building homes made of metal, plastic and cloth, groups like the YMCA are instead educating and training young people to help them find better work and to engage with the state on land rights issues.
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"We agreed to a deal that implicitly gave Turkey leverage over us," said the official, who was involved in the talks, noting the EU had become powerless to stop mass jailing of dissidents in Turkey since a failed coup attempt last year.
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Still, it is not yet clear that Mr. Cooper is condemned to four years of disdain in which Republicans in the General Assembly pass laws he is powerless to stop, while ensuring that his own initiatives land with the thud of a doorstop.
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The fear is that a thoroughly erratic president could, in a moment of pique order, or even as a distraction, embark on an adventure that would set the nation and the world on an irreversible course that Congress would be powerless to halt.
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Facebook only shared evidence that Russian troll farms paid $100,000 to promote ads for that purpose with Congress in early September, and investigators remain skeptical that that's the whole story — or that these Silicon Valley companies were powerless to stop such an intrusion.
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For most of that period, the United States and other foreign navies exercised, patrolled, snooped and routinely sailed in the waters off the Chinese coast, much as they did throughout the colonial period when China was powerless to stop foreign encroachment on its territory.
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Steve Jobs himself said that "no one's going to buy" a big phone before Apple made them, which makes their current ubiquity all the more embarrassing, a tacit admission that we are powerless to let these screens literally take up more space in our lives.
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The isolated state on Friday set off its most powerful nuclear explosion to date, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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It's heartbreaking to know that our classmates, co-workers, neighbors, and loved ones can be killed at school, a house of worship, a movie theater, a music festival, a night club, a restaurant, or even at home, and we feel powerless to stop the carnage.
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But everywhere we go people are talking about what we don't know and we feel powerless to effect change and all we keep reading is about titans who triumphed who say it was easy leaving out how aggressive they were and what corners they cut.
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A 4-4 vote would render the justices powerless to resolve the conflicting rulings in lower courts, maintaining different rules for different parts of the country and setting up another potential Supreme Court showdown over the ACA once Antonin Scalia's old seat is finally filled.
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North Korea set off its most powerful nuclear blast to date on Friday, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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In the nearby Nizamuddin Basti, a maze of narrow lanes around a Muslim shrine, Fareeda, who uses one name, locked her children in their one-room house but was powerless to do anything about the pollution streaming in from a large, shutter-less window.
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The network has during the past year and a half fruitlessly pushed for comprehensive health care and immigration reform; and like other leading conservative groups, the network has been powerless to persuade the President to rethink his strategy on trade generally and tariffs specifically.
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North Korea set off its most powerful nuclear blast to date this month, saying it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile and ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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Her defenders, including Cardinal Bo and others in the church, argue that she is powerless to stop the campaign against the Rohingya, and that for her to speak out against it would only weaken her, strengthen the military and jeopardize the country's fragile democratic gains.
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With outgoing White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney all-but powerless to lead, Pence's chief of staff Marc Short turned to someone with more influence and firepower than the vice president himself: Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, to mixed results.
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The change in personnel comes amid escalating U.S.-Iran tensions, which have left European leaders caught in the middle: They desperately want to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran that Mr. Trump rejected, but they are powerless to stop the U.S. sanctions that threaten it.
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Sankey added that his panel was "troubled by the university's shifting positions about whether academic fraud occurred on its campus," but he said the infractions committee was powerless to punish North Carolina for courses the university offered to any member of the general student body.
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I also live with the knowledge that millions of others with mental illness live with that fear, and suffer through it alone, and far too many are sucked into our hyperactive justice system and treated as criminals for an illness they are powerless to fight.
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If an explicitly illegal product such as heroin cannot be kept off the streets and out of prisons, city and state officials in New York and elsewhere will be powerless to stop a wave of vaping favorites from flowing in from jurisdictions near and far.
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Despite the new changes to the trade deal, she remains undecided on supporting the USMCA, and her concerns are resonating among progressives who seem powerless to stop the deal at this point given the level of support from the GOP for the trade pact.
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Each time I turn it on, I luxuriate in my utter control over this appliance, helpless, powerless to resist, doomed to suck up kitty litter and dead skin cells until I grant it reprieve (or until it completely jams itself on an errant cord).
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Without someone to create, implement and enforce policies that secure the vulnerabilities of sectors like electricity, finance, communications and oil/gas, these systems are powerless to anyone looking to wreak havoc, and are likely to shut down completely in the event of an attack.
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There is clearly little prospect for such a radical approach, partly because the Democratic Party is too decentralized and lacks a respected establishment that could enforce any such plan, just as the Republican Party was powerless to prevent Trump's takeover in 2015 and 2016.
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Tweaks to the Senate's filibuster rules — shifts that were initiated by then-Majority Leader Harry Reid after Republicans refused to let President Obama's judicial nominees through — along with the erosion of other informal congressional checks have rendered Democrats increasingly powerless to express their opposition.
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Heydarian, the professor, however said that even with improved ties, Trump would be powerless to stop moves by Duterte to diversify foreign relations beyond the United States to include China and Russia, and tap them for anything from loans and infrastructure to rifles and jeeps.
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Washington (CNN)Three years after using the "nuclear option" to upend Senate tradition by effectively removing filibusters against most presidential nominations, Senate Democrats insisted Thursday they don't regret that decision, even as Donald Trump becomes president and they recognize they may be powerless to block controversial nominations.
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"Here ... our conclusion is straightforward because the Members — 29 Senators and 186 Members of the House of Representatives — do not constitute a majority of either body and are, therefore, powerless to approve or deny the President's acceptance of foreign emoluments," the panel said in the ruling.
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In Hungary Viktor Orban's corrupt and autocratic regime seems beyond redemption; in Poland, the giant of the central European Visegrad group (the others are Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia itself), civil society is robust but powerless to stop the government's assault on the state and judiciary.
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The Patriarch compared his own church's erstwhile Soviet captivity (which required it to abstain from any criticism of the atheist regime) with the present situation of England's church, which to pious Russian eyes now looks powerless to resist the tide of godless secularism and moral experimentation.
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And then the final seven really showcased the series' strengths, as they dug into the raw horror surrounding the Battle of Culloden — the English forces' final crushing of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1746 — which time-traveling Claire (Outlander's protagonist) knew was coming but was powerless to stop.
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At 4 PM every day from the months of June through early September, every person on Earth has a crucial craving for a Magnum, and seeing as I now have a BMI doctors describe as being "extremely medically inadvisable," I am, sadly, powerless to resist such urges.
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The impasse highlights the awkward dynamic candidates like O'Rourke who have taken a stand against dark money groups face; they can rail against PAC money on the trail all they want, but they're powerless to stop the groups from spending money in support of their candidacies.
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Now, thousands of mental health patients — many of whom had been living relatively normal lives under medication — are drifting into despair and psychosis because the country has run out of the vast majority of psychiatric medicines, leaving families and doctors powerless to help them, medical experts say.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland's police union called for the suspension of a state law allowing people to carry firearms during the Republican National Convention but Ohio's governor said he was powerless to act despite heightened security concerns with the killing on Sunday of three police officers in Louisiana.
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Why it matters: The people with the power to rein in this tech are the same ones who will most enjoy its benefits — while those who face its adverse effects, especially people of color and low-income communities, will be largely powerless to make anything change.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joined all of the majority opinion, and Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch most of it, though those two justices also wrote that the Supreme Court was powerless to hear the case at all.
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LONDON, March 27 (LPC) - As the coronavirus crisis escalates, covenant-lite loans are set to be put to the test for the first time en masse as swathes of borrowers face a liquidity crunch and stress to the bottom line, leaving investors virtually powerless to react.
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By his account, Mr. Hoare did not condone such atrocities but, vastly outnumbered by his out-of-control forces, he had been powerless to stop the carnage, though he claimed to have once shot off the big toes of a man as he was assaulting a woman.
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ET, ESPN, FSN Southeast (Memphis), CSN Bay Area (Golden State) ABOUT THE GRIZZLIES (23-23): Memphis has been decimated by injuries and has been powerless to end its issues and the Grizzlies will be the seventh seed in the West should they finish tied with the Mavericks.
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Touted 84 Dow records One irony of Monday afternoon was the fact that the President was trapped in his own story as the market slumped, oblivious to what was happening and powerless to shape the moment with his shrewd reality show star's eye, as he often does.
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If it were to lift sanctions without a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine, however, the Trump administration would essentially send a green light to Moscow and other countries that it is content with Russia solidifying its sphere of influence in parts of Europe, or powerless to prevent it.
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I have no intention to convince anyone of anything, I am just being/coexisting in these environments and capturing the moments that to me depict the soul and strength of people who may appear powerless to others, but there is so much more complexity in this.
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The problem with the vice presidency is that unless Trump makes it crystal clear that Mike Pence and only Mike Pence is in charge of policy, Pence will be pretty powerless to get his way on anything, because he, as mentioned, will have hardly any formal powers.
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Why Muhammad Ali ever made a plaster cast of his face and how the hell Russell Crowe ended up with it I am powerless to explain, but I can tell you this: Crowe got really into boxing after Cinderella Man, and started buying all kinds of weird shit.
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A stout man in a leopard-print shirt, he says he gave up the business two years ago after growing closer to the local monarch, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, who had campaigned against illegal mining for years (though was powerless to halt it until the state cracked down).
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Walking away from the table on trade negotiations or threatening tariffs that will invite retaliation leaves the United States powerless to stop the implementation of new barriers—tariff lines, regulatory restrictions or import quotas—that will hamstring American businesses in some of the hottest markets in the world.
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It is a sign of where the gun debate is in this country at the moment that even the Manchin-Toomey gun bill of 2013, the most ambitious proposal for tightening federal gun laws in recent years, would have been powerless to block Mr. Mateen's purchase of a gun.
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"Ironically, by protecting the free speech rights of the white supremacists, Conrad may have ultimately suppressed speech by ensuring an armed confrontation between the neo-Nazis and the counter-protesters would break out and that police would be powerless to stop it until blood was spilled," they argued.
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Geopolitical jitters added to the sour mix after North Korea conducted its fifth and biggest nuclear test and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that its rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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As a member of the House minority, you are almost totally powerless to proactively move any sort of legislation; your wins, such as they are, are focused on gumming up the procedural working of the House -- moves that the average American has zero idea you are even doing.
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Last year's season of midterm activism has given way to a long electoral winter of Democratic primary skirmishes and an emphasis on just a few early-voting states, leaving Trump opponents to wrestle with how to contribute amid a gush of executive outrages they feel powerless to counteract.
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Of course, pundits and pessimists will argue that President TrumpDonald John TrumpWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE and Congress are powerless to guard against a downturn.
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What is being mourned, it seems, is not so much the decline of an old world of freedom as the existence of comforts and conveniences the individual feels powerless to resist, and which in any case he or she could not truthfully say they wished would be abolished.
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This is now replacing a swing vote with a solid -- a conservative in the mold of Gorsuch and Scalia and that&aposs going to change the court for a generation and so they are -- and they are powerless to stop it, so they are flailing everything they can add it.
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The proposed measure, outlined in an interview at the Pentagon by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff David L. Goldfein, follows complaints from military families who say they are often powerless to challenge private industry landlords when they encounter dangerous mold, lead paint and vermin infestations.
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Instead of being able to immediately call the court the minute Mr. Brooks' eye popped open to request a stay of execution, his lawyers were forced to sit and watch, completely powerless to act or even scribble notes on a notepad, as their client's internal organs burned from the inside out.
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And they're close to the WH." So ... our elected leaders have reached the point where they are semi-openly acknowledging that they are entirely powerless to reopen the government and need a deus ex machina -- people outraged at airport lines -- in order to have any hope of returning things to "normal.
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The cost of a hard Brexit will hit some in the EU, particularly Ireland, almost as hard as it hits the UK. No one in the EU really wants a hard Brexit, yet they have agreed they are powerless to give May what she really needs, huge concessions on the backstop.
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" Kennedy's language, Alito wrote, "is bound to be interpreted by some to mean that the states are largely powerless to restrict even the most dangerous sexual predators from visiting any internet sites, including, for example, teenage dating sites and sites designed to permit minors to discuss personal problems with their peers.
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But over the past seven years, 20 cases involving the website were rejected by courts that "acknowledged the horror of the allegations made regarding the child victims' trafficking" but were "powerless to act," Yiota G. Souras, general counsel for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, told Congress last November.
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Just a few examples of people or businesses still dependent on cash: The list could go on much longer than that, but the point is that there are those who are in some cases heavily dependent on cash and are relatively powerless to make the changes necessary to keep up.
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The Baron, whose first name is Vladimir, is described in his Wikipedia entry as possessing "a talent for manipulating others and exploiting their weaknesses"; the diagonal's downward slide, then, runs from the powerless to the power-mad, with the endpoints (Homer and Hitler) bound together by their psychotic outbursts of rage.
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But just as soon as those periods ended, he would revert right back into the elaborate Hogwarts fantasy he'd created for himself, with friends to occupy his time, magic spells to fix the problems he was powerless to fix, and plenty of magical explanations and excuses for the Dursleys' real-life abuse.
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The local chief law enforcement officer, or CLEO, used to be required to sign off on the transfer or sale as part of the application, but that was changed to a simple notification requirement in 2016, leaving law enforcement powerless to prevent potentially dangerous individuals from getting their hands on a deadly device.
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As a young boy, Louis's father and his siblings looked on, powerless to intervene, as their alcoholic father beat their mother; when he was five years old, the man left for work at the factory and never returned, leaving his family destitute, hungry—this is all we're told of his earliest years.
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At that point the death toll of Afghan civilians attributed by the authorities to Commander Qanet's three-month-long rampage in Takhar was about 30 (seven in just the last week), none of them insurgents, but the police and security officials as of Friday had been powerless to stop him or his followers.
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You might cynically conclude that this means these companies are trying to buy influence—but it also seems likely that some of these people are unhappy with the things being done by their employers and feel, for all of their relative wealth and status, that they are powerless to change things from within.
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After the tragic events of Manchester, with the senseless loss of life and the fear that came from knowing my family was unsafe and that I was completely powerless to protect them, I went to a very dark place with no tools to handle the feelings that came along with the devastation of the attack.
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They're smart, they know what's going on in the world, but they feel powerless to change it, and they realize that if they were to engage in any act of dissent that it would not just be them, but their whole family, their parents, their cousins, their siblings, nieces, and nephews who would be punished.
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That moment — one that countless non-magical women have shared, and felt powerless to rectify —serves as a catalyst for the film's driving narrative, as Sarah rebounds from this betrayal by joining forces with a trio of rebellious girls (one of whom has also been burned by Chris), to form a real-life coven.
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In the case of Caldbeck, his position as venture capitalist meant he had the power to fund, or not fund, companies, creating an already-imbalanced dynamic for the female founders who came to him seeking support — an imbalance, it seems, he eagerly sought to take advantage of and which female founders felt powerless to resist.
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But as Rappaport notes, child marriage also increases the likelihood of other human rights abuses, regardless of where she's from: Girls who are married as children are much more likely to experience domestic violence, much less likely than their peers to complete secondary school and are often powerless to make basic decisions about their lives.
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Trump's reversal comes after he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Juan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America MORE claimed, incorrectly, that the president was powerless to act.
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When Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, declares that he will cancel the divisions of the West Bank created by the Oslo Accords — into so-called Areas A, B and C — which gave Israel power over more than 60 percent of the area, everyone knows he is powerless to implement that announcement.
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Though they are powerless to stop him, House Democrats are doing what they can to paint President Trump's pardon of Scooter Libby as "contempt for the rule of law" — amid fears that the president might soon use the power of the pardon to protect people close to him who are facing scrutiny via Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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Telecom lawyer and consumer advocate Harold Feld, for example, recently noted that under this new FTC-dominant enforcement system, most of the net neutrality violations we've frequently cited wouldn't fall within FTC authority, leaving the agency powerless to stop offenses we've already seen, much less any new, creative ISP efforts to abuse a lack of competition.
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That's been the biggest lesson, growing up and getting older and coming into our power and feeling more comfortable with our power and our leadership, changing things that we thought we were powerless to change before, we now have the power to control and change our environment and make it the place we want it to be.
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By the end, they were powerless to stop Mbappe, who restored France's lead midway through the second half with a clever low shot and sealed the win — and Messi's fate — four minutes later, with a ruthless strike into the bottom corner of the net as France again ripped open their opponents' fragile defense on the break.
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The finale, like most of the season, finds the girls trying to harness power in situations that leave them largely powerless to the forces (or men) around them: Lenù is kicked out of her high school class for voicing her opinion, and Lila butts heads with her suitor, Stefano, on decisions regarding her family's shoe business.
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It was just months after their transfer there from years in C.I.A. prisons, and the defense lawyers argue that, although there was no overt violence during the F.B.I. interrogations, the defendants were so thoroughly broken in the black sites that they were powerless to do anything but tell the F.B.I. agents what they wanted to hear.
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The rule change could make it easier for Trump to win confirmation of Supreme Court nominees as long as Republicans control the Senate, with Democrats left powerless to resist even if he gets a chance to replace the court's senior liberal, 84-year-old Ginsburg, or the court's swing vote, 80-year-old Kennedy, with more conservative replacements.
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"States, as large drug purchasers, generally negotiate discounts against those high launch prices and against annual price increases, but they are powerless to change the trajectory of the industry pricing model," according to a paper written by a working group of state legislative staffers, Medicaid programs, state-based insurance exchanges, corrections departments, and attorneys general staffs.
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The shot of Drogon first lighting the Iron Fleet on fire — where the camera is pinned to Euron whirling around on his ship, powerless to stop Dany's sudden ability to avoid giant arrows — and the many shots of Arya trying to escape the fallen King's Landing are the sorts of things you rarely see executed so well on television.
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Thursday morning that before this year is out, Republicans in Congress will, in fact, seek to defund Planned Parenthood at the same time that they repeal the Affordable Care Act — using a budget reconciliation process that Democrats will be powerless to stop unless at least a few Republicans join them.
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Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook justified the company's decision to yank all major VPN apps from its Apps Store by explaining that Apple is powerless to do anything else but comply with the whims of authorities—though that framing somewhat conveniently skips past the reality that what is actually motivating Apple's willingness to comply is a desire to maintain market access.
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And rather than confronting these realities, many, particularly on the right, engaged in trickle-down magical thinking and—when that didn't work—union bashing and restrictions on labor rights that rendered workers powerless to confront these inequities, The result: stagnating wages for hard-working professionals, and stifled hopes for men and women who worked hard for the promise of the American dream.
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It's no surprise that the pardon power holds so much appeal for Trump: As one of the only monarchical powers imported from the British system into the US Constitution, the pardon gives the President the chance to play "king" even as he is powerless to stop special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that seems to be creeping closer into his inner circle.
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A look at the Lakers' Big Four acquisitions reveals some similar themes in terms of the player deciding Los Angeles was the right home for them, their previous teams having been fairly powerless to stop them, and, in what could be good news for current Lakers fans disappointed by the team's current five-season playoff drought, they led to championships.
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WASHINGTON — In a pair of decisions with vast implications for the American political landscape, the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a victory to Republicans by ruling that federal courts are powerless to hear challenges to extreme partisan gerrymandering but gave a reprieve to Democrats by delaying the Trump administration's efforts to add a question on citizenship to the 103 census.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE has not ruled out pardoning Manafort for his federal conviction, but would be powerless to forgive any state criminal charges against his former campaign chairman.
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The "algorithms" of violence, to contort Harari's own formulation, have doubtless grown more subtle, but they persist — and Harari's vision of humans doomed by superhuman biological or computational machines might well be marred by humans doomed by subhuman biological or computational machines: a terrifying contagion, a nuclear war or, most likely, a cataclysm in climate that we will be utterly powerless to stop.
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Reporter and newly minted author Jill Filipovic puts that sentiment into clear-eyed perspective in her new book, The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness, which is about exactly what it sounds like, and is a must-read for any woman who has ever suffered the particular ennui that comes with knowing a deck is stacked against you and that you feel powerless to reshuffle it.
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As infomercials, including the unavoidable "Psychic Friends Network" pitches starring Dionne Warwick, crowded out old Bogart movies and "Honeymooners" reruns on late night television, critics were left to wonder why people were suddenly "feeling powerless to turn off the smiling famous faces and euphoric, satisfied customers who promise a better, younger, prettier, richer, happier, more personally empowered you," as Rick Marin wrote in 1992.
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" Obama also urged the students to empathize with "all people who are struggling, not just black people who are struggling -- the refugee, the immigrant, the rural poor, the transgender person, and yes, the middle-aged white guy, who you may think has all the advantages, but over the last several years has seen his world upended by all the economic and cultural change and feels powerless to stop it.
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Editor: Clarence Fernandez + 65 6870 3861 PIX Desk: Singapore + 65 6870 3775 Graphics queries: + 65 6870 3595 (All times GMT/ET) North Korea's fifth nuclear test prompts U.S. calls for more sanctions SEOUL/GENEVA - North Korea conducts its fifth and biggest nuclear test and says it has mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.
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And also, you wouldn't want to get sauce down your new shirt, and the bouncer'd probably nick a bit of your food and pass it off as a joke and you'd be powerless to do anything because he's the bouncer and it was just a joke and you're the clubber and he's the bouncer and if he says it's banter then it's definitely banter and you'd better suck it up and watch him eat your food.
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