Meanings of relative powerlessness in English

In popular and advocacy-based accounts, considerable focus has been placed on the relative powerlessness of female VDMST.

Indeed, the post-crisis experience of quantitative easing has highlighted monetary policy's relative powerlessness to offset the global deflationary trend.

For instance, Lord Rennard allegedly bestowed his advances on people whose relative powerlessness meant their complaints were hushed up or ignored.