Governor Smith asked at the time, frustrated by years of runaway spending, his inability to control the budgets of his own departments and his relative powerlessness.

He once referred to himself as "boss polyester," a play on his Tammany Hall political lineage and his relative powerlessness as county leader.

And perhaps that fact is rooted in the relative powerlessness of football players over their careers.

What we see in Babylon Heights are human beings in a state of relative powerlessness, trying to cope as best they can.

Given the relative powerlessness of Indians, such an approach softens the rules governing interethnic exchanges.

It revealed America's need to blame someone rather than to accept tragedy and cope with the truth of our relative powerlessness against nature.

He acknowledged today that he had been worn down by the relative powerlessness of the Democratic minority.

The Revised Constitution of 1955 has been criticized for reasserting "the indisputable power of the monarch" and maintaining the relative powerlessness of the peasants.

First, the relative powerlessness of the patient in the face of the doctor's superior knowledge can be exploited, particularly if the doctor has a direct financial interest in the outcome (the "overtreatment" problem, for example).

This reflected the relative powerlessness of the Capetian kings, who, unlike their Carolingian predecessors, controlled only the Ile-de-France.