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sense of powerlessness

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meanings of senseand powerlessness


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sense
noun
uk /sens/ us /sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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powerlessness
noun[U]
uk /ˈpaʊə.ləs.nəs/ us /ˈpaʊ.ɚ.ləs.nəs/
the condition or feeling of having ...
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Examples of sense of powerlessness


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The findings show that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and a senseofpowerlessness in meeting the needs of such clients.
An inability to handle colleagues' worries and distress increased the senseofpowerlessness and fear at work.
For the most part, informants acknowledged and identified discriminatory practices in the health system, but portrayed a senseofpowerlessness.
This scene literalizes the loneliness of bereavement, particularly its senseofpowerlessness and remoteness despite the proximity of other people.
Far more important in understanding general practitioners' reluctance to accede to this new clinical category is their senseofpowerlessness in the face of it.
Many respondents empathised with excombatants, but most also expressed a senseofpowerlessness.
The senseofpowerlessness of the parents, combined with their strong desire to gain greater control of the situation, occasionally results in unforeseeable and sometimes volatile parental behavior.
An emerging senseofpowerlessness helps to account for the reluctance and indeed resistance of staff to change practice, despite external pressures and the obvious benefits to be gained.
These accounts reveal that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and a senseofpowerlessness in relation to social isolation among elderly clients.
Its roots are not in the traumatic, all-absorbing war experience and the disorienting emptiness that followed, but in a deep feeling of boredom, alienation and senseofpowerlessness.
That adds to that dangerous senseofpowerlessness in a community.
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Workers who experience a senseofpowerlessness, meaningless isolation and self- estrangement within the work situation are alienated.
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Here will be the place to do battle with the senseofpowerlessness.
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The anger that one feels at such a waste of human resources is overwhelmed by a numbing senseofpowerlessness.
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We stand here in moral indignation and are, at the same time, filled with a huge senseofpowerlessness.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Frustration, lack of hope and a senseofpowerlessness form an inflammable mixture that can be ignited all too easily.
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It is no use calling for community responsibility as community spirit will be reduced to a hopeless senseofpowerlessness.
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The senseofpowerlessness and frustration is building up and will eventually become a dangerous feature of our democratic politics unless we adapt our policies to accommodate our people's apprehensions.
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To allow a local authority to provide temporary accommodation from its own stock for no more than two years out of three adds to that senseofpowerlessness.
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A senseofpowerlessness and apathy giving way to fear.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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