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Meanings of as powerless in English

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Usage of as powerless in English
1
Fair blows were now as powerless as foul to arrest the end.
Abraham Lincoln
2
Are the prayers of a son to be as powerless as that!
Mogens, and Other Stories
3
He felt as powerless as a dreamer in the grip of a nightmare.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
4
In his own way, he was as powerless against his wife as Gabriella.
The long road home
5
You will be as powerless then to harm me as you are now.
Axiomatic
6
Now he appears as powerless as his predecessors to resist the bonus grabs.
The Guardian
7
Our science is as powerless to tell us that as to create motion.
The Magic Skin
8
The horses stood limp and trembling, as powerless as himself.
The Girl from Keller's
9
She was as powerless before it as Beelzebub had been.
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
10
He knows he is as powerless as you might be, for example, or myself.
Sunrise
11
It was as powerless against this new development as water against a drunkard's thirst.
The Deluge
12
Serraj, meanwhile, has struggled to extend his own influence, and is widely seen as powerless.
Reuters
13
You think I am as powerless as that day I fell dead at your feet?
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
14
How can He be conceived as powerless to raise up yet another Messenger after Moses?
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
15
We are as powerless to direct our bodies as we are to manage affairs in China.
The Nature of Goodness
16
The officer is almost as powerless as the soldier to choose his opportunity or his place.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 / A Mag...
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