Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual.
- adjective Lacking legal or other authority.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking power; weak; impotent; unable to produce any effect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking sufficient
power orstrength . - adjective Lacking
legal authority .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking power
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, making congress – controlled by democarts by the way – all powerful and the president powerless is not helpful.
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Why do you even bother electing a president if you want the office to remain powerless and only accountable to a slim partisan minority?
Sources: White House considers drafting health care bill 2009
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Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."
Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Do you assert that satire turned against the powerless is good clean fun and not vulgar?
Think Progress » National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants. 2010
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Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."
Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO) Jason Linkins 2010
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Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."
Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."
Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Olbermann did, however, take issue with what he viewed as "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart's comparison of MSNBC to Fox News, saying, "Sticking up for the powerless is not the moral equivalent of sticking up for the powerful."
Keith Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' Segment In Wake Of Rally To Restore Sanity (VIDEO) Jason Linkins 2010
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[…] Admitting to being powerless is not an admission of defeat, but one of liberation.
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The only way that I would be powerless is to allow the whims of a corrupt society to micro-manage me to the point that I don't believe in myself anymore and where my choices are limited by someone else's shallow goals.
The Better Part 2008
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