sense of powerlessness
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsenseandpowerlessness
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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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(Definition ofsenseandpowerlessnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The findings show that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and asenseofpowerlessnessin meeting the needs of such clients.
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An inability to handle colleagues' worries and distress increased thesenseofpowerlessnessand fear at work.
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For the most part, informants acknowledged and identified discriminatory practices in the health system, but portrayed asenseofpowerlessness.
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This scene literalizes the loneliness of bereavement, particularly itssenseofpowerlessnessand remoteness despite the proximity of other people.
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Far more important in understanding general practitioners' reluctance to accede to this new clinical category is theirsenseofpowerlessnessin the face of it.
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Many respondents empathised with excombatants, but most also expressed asenseofpowerlessness.
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Thesenseofpowerlessnessof the parents, combined with their strong desire to gain greater control of the situation, occasionally results in unforeseeable and sometimes volatile parental behavior.
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An emergingsenseofpowerlessnesshelps to account for the reluctance and indeed resistance of staff to change practice, despite external pressures and the obvious benefits to be gained.
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These accounts reveal that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and asenseofpowerlessnessin relation to social isolation among elderly clients.
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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 andsenseofpowerlessness.
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That adds to that dangeroussenseofpowerlessnessin a community.
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Workers who experience asenseofpowerlessness, meaningless isolation and self- estrangement within the work situation are alienated.
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Here will be the place to do battle with thesenseofpowerlessness.
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The anger that one feels at such a waste of human resources is overwhelmed by a numbingsenseofpowerlessness.
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We stand here in moral indignation and are, at the same time, filled with a hugesenseofpowerlessness.
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Frustration, lack of hope and asenseofpowerlessnessform 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 hopelesssenseofpowerlessness.
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Thesenseofpowerlessnessand 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 thatsenseofpowerlessness.
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Asenseofpowerlessnessand apathy giving way to fear.
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