Neither an arrogant triumphalism nor a learned helplessness will do.

It was a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness, tinged with anger.

komoethee blogs about the intensity of the fire and helplessness of firemen.

Moreover, low self esteem exacerbates a feeling of helplessness and lack of control.

Living in Barbados expressed a sense of helplessness in the face of catastrophe

It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.

Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the principal opposition party.

But and I stress this we must also avoid a sense of helplessness and despair about Africa.

It's from helplessness, from futility and fear that I have left everything I know and find myself in this state.

An overwhelming sense of anger together with feelings of injustice, helplessness and shock makes the experience even more compelling and engaging.

But for artists depicting the holy month in Syria blood, violence and helplessness are the only words that seem to fit.

The Thais flew consular and embassy officials to the affected areas, aware of the sense of helplessness among those stranded far from home.

A prolonged conflict situation creates poverty and want and uncertainty and fear, and it perpetuates a sense of helplessness and lack of dignity.

Forced into silent suffering, many women are trapped into a world of solitary despair. Feelings of loneliness, loss, isolation and helplessness become overwhelming.

We allow them to enjoy themselves a while in the world and then We shall drive them in utter helplessness to a harsh chastisement .

In such helplessness , the human being realizes that it is God who is the true Guardian and His rewards and recompense are the best .

We allow them to enjoy themselves a while in the world and then We shall drive them in utter helplessness to a harsh chastisement .

In such helplessness , the human being realizes that it is God who is the true Guardian and His rewards and recompense are the best .

Simply put, when the impulse is to change the world, the academy is more likely to engender a learned helplessness than to create a sense of empowerment.

Underdevelopment is, first, the underpinning of political dependence and helplessness, then the source of personal hopelessness it thus creates the pool from which potential terrorists are drawn.

The unparalleled and exclusive attention given to the Pitcairn judicial system since 1999 had resulted in a strong feeling of mistrust, self doubt and helplessness within the island community.

The blog began as a way for me to cope with the growing helplessness and hopelessness I felt about living and working in Trinidad and Tobago in my adult years.

However important NATO may be, it would be a dramatic admission of its own helplessness and insignificance if the EU were to remain silent on this crucial issue for Europe s future.

But actually, I mean, this feeling of helplessness comes in because most Americans actually feel that oil prices are the result of a conspiracy, not of the vicissitudes of the world oil market.

I never imagined that I may write all these slurs, but I never imagined that we may be in such inefficacy, passivity, and helplessness, while the lands are being sold without a hitch.

In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the African question to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.

His conclusion was amongst others that both children and parents (and in all likelihood the school) experience conflicts of loyalty, pressure to conform and acquiesce to the norm, and for some of the children bullying and a feeling of helplessness.

Unemployment is probably the most serious issue affecting the younger generation, both in urban and rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in combination with housing problems and the constant economic crisis, young people indulge their helplessness and lack of prospects, and turn to narcotics and alcohol.

The report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrant workers presented to the Commission at its sixtieth session, pursuant to Commission resolution 2003 46 (E CN.4 2004 76 and Add.1 4), devoted particular attention to the practice of withholding migrant domestic workers' papers, which contributes to their dependency and helplessness in the face of abuse and violations.