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On the other side, however, remains the vast population of powerless Iraqis, including widows and divorced or abandoned women with no one to provide for them and their children.
The US government was powerless in the face of an undervalued yen, fueling the belief that the rest of the world was using the dollar to attack America's manufacturing base.
There is a sense among many Europeans, not just in the Netherlands, that they have been abandoned in a fast-changing world, that multi-national corporations are more powerful than nation-states, that the urban rich and highly educated do fine and ordinary folks in the provinces languish, while democratically elected politicians are not only powerless, but have abjectly surrendered to these larger forces that threaten the common man.
Domestic policymakers, it is said, are largely powerless in the face of global markets.
They felt like powerless minority shareholders.
Otherwise, German voters would be rendered powerless, constituting a breach of the German constitution.
To the powerless, nationalist suicide bombers look like a great equalizer.
For a persecuted, state-less and powerless nation this is a major achievement.
The powerful seize non-renewable resources at the expense of the powerless.
In sum, the Protocol provides a way for individuals, who may otherwise be isolated and powerless, to make the international community aware of their plight.
Third, central banks are all but powerless to cope with the moving target of what can be called a non-stationary liquidity trap.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is almost as powerless as May; neo-fascists are in, sharing, or close to power in several European countries.
After all, it is said that the advent of globalization has rendered distinct national moneys dependent, if not powerless.
One explanation for this commonality is that launching a public campaign against a powerless, unpopular group like drug users is an easy way for a leader to mask other shortcomings.
While Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” may ensure the success of free markets, it is powerless in the world of geopolitics.
Dissatisfaction with this state of affairs is not confined to the powerless.
Let’s start with the European Parliament, which in the early days of European integration was marginalized, powerless, and overlooked – a place for has-beens and never-weres.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and powerful deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly pragmatic concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
In the United States, Western Europe, and Asia, Internet platforms, especially Facebook, enable the powerful to inflict harm on the powerless in politics, foreign policy, and commerce.
So when the Japanese emerged from the jungle and mangrove swamps of the Malay Peninsula in the north, the British were powerless to stop them.
The faceless mass was just that: faceless and powerless.
Liu Xiaobo is demonstrating anew the unstoppable power of the powerless.
This could be a sign of a more informed and critical citizenry; or, more likely, it could be a response to feeling overwhelmed by choice and powerless in a complex world.
But this fatalism assumes that we are powerless to harness what we create to improve our lives – and, indeed, our jobs.
Of course, the EU is not powerless to influence the outcome.
Former Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that his dream is to see 85% of Indians living in cities and only 15%, as opposed to the current 60%, engaged in agriculture, because to be an agrarian society in the modern era is to be poor and powerless.
Even so, the rest of the world is not powerless.
The Socialist Party is paralyzed, ossified, and powerless.
Third, the EU is confronting, in more severe form, a problem facing much of the developed world: powerful forces operating beyond the control of elected officials are shaping citizens’ lives, leaving them feeling powerless.
Of course, in times of horror such as the Holocaust and Ukraine’s Holodomyr, isolated and powerless individuals may swaddle themselves in indifference simply to retain some shred of sanity.
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