His landmark rulings have safeguarded the rights of minorities, the poor, and the politically powerless in many areas.

They feared that the southern district, bereft of the richer northern half, would become politically powerless.

The unemployed are politically powerless and easy targets to be dumped on.

The Chinese Indonesian community was politically powerless to oppose this law.

He wished me far away from him, politically powerless, and demonstrably unmarriageable.

Is this, like opera, another instance of clever but politically powerless composers using more prominent coattails to get their music before the public?

And again: "He has tended generally to make things worse for the politically powerless."

While it was politically powerless, it became a economic center for cheese production and trade.

"Because we are politically powerless, we're the football that gets bounced around," he said.