Sentences with phrase «powerless against the forces»

Evidence, however, is strikingly powerless against the forces that drive human behavior.

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If I were to ask your views you would doubtless reply that, menaced by this unleashing of blind forces, there is nothing we can do but evade them to the best of our ability, or else submit, since we are the victims of a sort of natural catastrophe against which we are powerless and in which there is no meaning to be discerned.

However, he proved powerless against the popular forces ignited by the return of Khomeini and was ousted by the latter within ten days in February 1979.

The Left here appear to be demoralized and powerless against the dark forces of progress in science.