"Fears about 'brand bullying' are much stronger in the UK. Parents seemed to feel much more helpless, " said Dr Nairn.

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Within a few days they were broken hulks, emaciated and covered in sores, more helpless than the original camp inmates.

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As the Wolves wall jumped he drilled the ball low and hard and it scudded into the corner with the unsighted Hahnemann no more than a helpless observer.

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People without a college degree felt a lot more confused, helpless and fatalistic than people who had graduated college - so really suggesting that there's an educational component here.

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It's simultaneously jaunty, desperate, defiant, helpless, peeved and more.

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The welfare state's expansion into every nook and cranny of too many people's lives has been less about saving people from deprivation and expresses more a condescending middle-class view of people as helpless and hapless unless the state helps them to parent correctly, improve their lifestyles, cut down on smoking or drinking, etc.

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Ray now understands the finer points of making vinaigrette, and more important, he realizes there's nothing masculine about being helpless.

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Put simply, investors felt helpless and were hungry for a new idea that brought a more understandable and proactive discipline to the picture.

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