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She had been drifting powerlessly for four days now.

Farmers watched powerlessly, wanting nothing more than to be free of the men who had once fought for their freedom.

He may be sitting powerlessly in a cave, but his image is as scary as ever.

This is an outcome which the European Parliament can only note powerlessly.

It was a rifle bullet which some incomprehensible force had caused to slow down and fall powerlessly to the ground.

They are powerlessly dependent on you for their being, their life, their freedom.

The tiny moth circle around the lamp, bounce against the glass powerlessly trying to break into the light.

Q powerlessly watches as his wife and son are taken in, and is only barely able to escape.

Monetary union is going full steam ahead, whereas political Europe is getting bogged down powerlessly.

It fell powerlessly and with increasing speed directly towards the white sun, in whose gravity field it had already been caught.

Soldiers cheered or jeered, civilians looked on powerlessly.

Teth-Adam goes missing in the resulting explosion and wanders the Earth powerlessly as he tries to guess the new magic word.

It is dark here today, the generous golden sun of the Golden State reduced to a pink gumball hanging powerlessly over the treetops.

Conan, caught in a steel trap, watches powerlessly as Tascela proceeds with the sacrifice of Valeria.

All my generation can now do is watch, powerlessly and without a voice, as the crumbling ideology that once was is being held hostage by the financial markets.

The deflated apparatchiks of the EU watch powerlessly as a tragedy unfolds, writes Christopher Booker.

Twice Rosemary went to St. Vincent's Hospital to stand beside Hutch's bed and look down powerlessly at the closed eyes, the scarcely discernible breathing.

After the levees break, he uses a small canoe to rescue people, before being arrested by an armed squad and swept powerlessly into a vortex of bureaucratic brutality.

But the language that might convey his situation to these helpers across the gulf he did not know; his feeble fingers groped vainly and powerlessly in their brains.

Second, he will not have to govern powerlessly for a long 16 months until September 2006, even as he gains whatever capital might accrue from having taken a bold stroke.

Then the Space Research Institute's vaunted Phobos 1 probe, headed for Mars, began spinning aimlessly and powerlessly in space because of improper ground commands.

W I T C H LI G H T 245 And fell, powerlessly, back into that blindness which was far more comfortable than knowledge.

Thus the allies have been hamstrung by restraints of their own making, issuing blustery threats that Mr. Milosevic apparently considers hollow and then watching powerlessly as he flouts their demands.

Declaring New Fealties This month, Mr. Tanaka sat by powerlessly as his huge political machine within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party split into three groups, with members declaring new fealties.

An ex-soldier who fought in France, he is shown as the most violent of the outlaws, having turned to murder after powerlessly witnessing the brutalisation and trampling to death of his wife at the hands of Normans.