Are we willing to shrug our shoulders and be helpless or do we refuse to put our hard earned investments and savings with such companies that are involved with these acts?

FORBES: We Have it ALL Wrong!

Watchdogs may be helpless to stop the electronic sale of quack treatments or dodgy investment schemes.

ECONOMIST: A survey of world trade

In the extreme, the policymaker would then be helpless to distinguish between biased and unbiased advisers.

ECONOMIST: Economics Focus: The PC crowd | The

He becomes ever harder to believe in, however fervent he is meant to be in defending the helpless Irene, and the suspicion arises that he might be not so much a rounded character as a card in a game of style.

NEWYORKER: Road Kill

He said that they are fed up with what they saw, they felt that it was unspeakable that young people, old people and women were beaten up, helpless people who just happened to be in the wrong place.

CNN: Reporter's notebook: Boiling emotions in China

Regrettably, these tragic incidents are unlikely to be the last episodes in which megalomaniacs are in a position to wreak destruction on large numbers of innocent, helpless human beings.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Cut off from her trust fund (her dad was jailed for running a Ponzi scheme), Caroline seems helpless at first, but her entitlement turns out to be a kind of superpower she believes that she and Max deserve a better life.

NEWYORKER: Crass Warfare

Finally, there is Dennis Quaid, who wanders around town unloading his grievances on strangers just the kind of helpless storyteller, one suspects, that Carroll would like to be.

NEWYORKER: Playing by the Heart

Against a process driven by lobbyists, money, and unprincipled legislators willing to be influenced by both, the typical voter is completely rational in feeling unempowered and helpless.

FORBES: Jeff Flake: Legislating From Principle

It's frankly cheating the poor of the world and the helpless of the world from the kind of support and protection they ought to be getting.

NPR: Overhauling the United Nations