Translation for "were powerless" to german

Were powerless

• waren machtlos

Translation examples

waren machtlos

Their mentors were powerless.
Ihre Mentoren waren machtlos.

We were powerless against him.
Wir waren machtlos gegen ihn.

But they were powerless, and they knew it, utterly dependent on the good will of the snakehead.
Und sie wussten, sie waren machtlos und auf den guten Willen der Snakeheads angewiesen.

Now the people sent here were not poor, but they did have their own tradition, and like the poor they were powerless.
Nun waren die Menschen, die man hierhergeschickt hat, nicht arm. Sie hatten aber ihre eigene Tradition und waren machtlos wie die Armen.

The peasants who were the famine’s main victims were powerless and distant from the political power centres.
Die Bauern, Hauptopfer der Hungersnot, waren machtlos und von den politischen Machtzentren weit entfernt.