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Today, many self-styled realists dismiss the United Nations as powerless, and argue that it can be ignored.
The perennial Russian order – the dominant state and a powerless, fragmented society – remains largely in place.
What makes this possibility the financial nightmare of choice, worse than the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, is the fear that many sovereign states have already shot all their bullets and would thus be powerless to intervene.
Powerless politically and economically, some children feel that they can only assert themselves by joining an army.
In either case, the US government, hamstrung by already-wide deficits, may feel powerless to respond with countercyclical fiscal policy.
Officials in both Hong Kong and Guangdong are powerless to clean up their environmental problems on their own.
Developing economies may not have much control over the headwinds that they face today, but that does not mean that they are powerless.
Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.
But, as long they remain relatively powerless, Mexico will remain unbalanced, deprived of the modern left that it needs to combat poverty and inequality, and hostage to those who still believe in revolution and the assault on the Winter Palace.
The beatings continued and spread to the subway, where the police were essentially powerless.
Its poor and powerless citizens, angrily demanding transparency and accountability, do not want the country to disintegrate into its many squabbling ethnic parts.
It will also transform economics, by paralyzing the European Central Bank in the next euro crisis: while the ECB can always defeat market speculation, it is powerless against breakup pressures from voters.
The taboo against criticizing Putin is already powerless.
Many of those who are harmed are poor, uneducated, and politically powerless.
Poverty also renders women powerless to reject unwanted sexual advances from men who may infect them.
The Japanese scare story of the 1990s, in which monetary and fiscal policy prove powerless in the face of a sustained deflation, is the economic trauma now used to rationalize Bush's vast 10-year program of tax cutting.
It means demanding accountability from public institutions and listening to the powerless.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union stifled condemnations of Nasser’s attacks on the Yemenis, leading then-United Nations Secretary-General U Thant to declare that he was powerless to deal with the matter.
Our national politicians, increasingly powerless to cope with serious crises, are suspected, often with good reason, of simply looking after their own interests.
But the OSCE was almost completely powerless during the Kyrgyzstan crisis, and only recently was it finally able to secure agreement to send a small police advisory group there.
As a result, the Islamic world is mostly weak, partly colonized, humiliated, and economically powerless.
As a result, the utterly powerless, hitherto quite obscure Liu Xiaobo, has become not only world famous, but much better known inside China, too.
Scarcely anyone bothers to consider the environmental costs to – or rights of – the country’s poor and powerless.
But their main effect may be an erosion of reasoned debate and civil conduct, without which democracy is powerless against the forces of polarization and extremism.
An ethos of personal integrity and authenticity may seem powerless in the face of unbridled greed and narcissism.
During the war, the emperor was omnipotent in theory, but relatively powerless in fact.
Until then, it is powerless.
The country has not had a president since May; the parliament is not functioning; and the cabinet is practically powerless.
Russia’s leaders, too, have worked insidiously to break down solidarity, without which the EU is powerless to respond to the threats it faces.
They wanted to create a new nation, a normal nation, a nation of good Jewish soldiers and farmers, different from the powerless Jews who fell victim to European persecution.
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