Searching for the word powerless in Senate within the 1970s…
The word powerless
- appears in 0.1% of speeches
- appears 62 times in 56 speeches
- was spoken on 51 sitting days by 36 different people
- appears in speeches on 49 different topics
Top speakers:
- GREENWOOD, Ivor (6 uses)
- MCCLELLAND, Douglas (5 uses)
- PRESIDENT, The (3 uses)
- MISSEN, Alan (3 uses)
- BAUME, Peter (3 uses)
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Top days:
- 9 November 1978 (5 uses)
- 6 June 1973 (3 uses)
- 28 May 1975 (2 uses)
- 13 November 1979 (2 uses)
- 8 November 1979 (2 uses)
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Top topics:
- AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ORDINANCE 1978: Motion to Disallow Ordinance (4 uses)
- HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BILL 1979: Second Readings (4 uses)
- CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION BILL 1973: Second Reading (3 uses)
- QUESTION: GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S SPEECH (3 uses)
- TRADE UNION TRAINING AUTHORITY BILL 1975: Second Reading (2 uses)
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Associated words:
- either powerless (3 appearances)
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Sample sentences:
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The Chair is powerless to control that aspect of the situation.
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There are powerless, voiceless children in our society who have been battered and sexually molested, and the community needs to bring this to its consciousness so that programs may be devised to deal with this tragic situation.
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Is the Minister completely powerless in this matter, as Dr Davis and PSI appear to think?
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The strike appears to be developing into a situation similar to the disastrous La Trobe Valley strike when the federal executive of a union was powerless to take effective action to settle the matter because shop stewards and other unauthorised persons took the matter into their own hands.
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The union view prevails and the Government is utterly powerless to intervene or to act in any way to have done what the Australian community wants done in relation to this very important economic matter.