This commitment is the seamless garment for Christian living, and it means that all, but especially those who suffer from defencelessness and vulnerability of any kind, poverty, disease and conflict, have a right to a special place in our hearts and in the heart of the Church. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Depression, with the passive and timid attitude in the individual with which if is associated, serves to transmit an identical message of surrender and defencelessness to potential aggressors. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So now they have torn and are dragging me from the altar of Thetis, the goddess of thy chiefest adoration and the mother of thy gallant son, without any proper trial, yea, and without waiting for my absent master; because, forsooth, they knew my defencelessness and my child's, whom they mean to slay with me his hapless mother, though he has done no harm. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The then President of the ANC, Rev Z.R. Mahabane told the national congress of our movement "The black man. is reduced to a position of utter voicelessness and votelessness, hopelessness, powerlessness, helplessness, defencelessness, homlessness, landlessness, a condition of deepest humiliation and absolute dependency". ❋ Unknown (2005)
He was, in some paralysing way, conscious of his own defencelessness, though he had all the defence of privilege. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A sense of isolation intensified the family tie, a sense of the weakness of their position, a sense of defencelessness, in spite of, or because of, the title and the land. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The other extreme, defencelessness, is equally objectionable. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The fear, the defencelessness of the girls you abuse? ❋ Cole, Martina (1999)
It was to deal with this contradiction in life which imposes on the guardian, who has been exposed to a life experience which, in part is informed by brutish behaviour, the responsibility to be inspired by the defencelessness of the child, in order properly to discharge the responsibilities of a guardian, that the Convention on the Rights of the ❋ Unknown (1997)
It was to deal with this contradiction in life which imposes on the guardian, who has been exposed to a life experience which, in part is informed by brutish behaviour, the responsibility to be inspired by the defencelessness of the child, in order properly to discharge the responsibilities of a guardian, that the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted. ❋ Unknown (1997)
The poor black man is consequently reduced to a position of utter voicelessness and votelessness, hopelessness, powerlessness, helplessness, defencelessness, homelessness, landlessness, a condition of deepest humiliation and absolute dependency. ❋ Unknown (1993)
Stevie was weeping openly now, her shoulders hunched, that air of invulnerable competence shattered by her sudden defencelessness. ❋ Lustbader, Eric Van (1992)
Then a BRDM slinking round the corner, its place taken by another, probably a BRDM 2 (in fact the mount of Sergeant Nikolai, all of whose suspicions had been aroused by the blatant defencelessness of the little bridge now in sight). ❋ Macksey, Kenneth (1984)
He was not inclined to expose himself to the tender mercy of his worst enemy in a state of utter defencelessness. ❋ Ernsting, Walter (1976)
It was not so much their nakedness which impressed him as the utter defencelessness it seemed to imply. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1973)
This defencelessness has two dangers: firstly, the chance of a successful raid or invasion. ❋ Various (N/A)
The sense of absolute defencelessness added poignancy to her fears of a renewed visit from some ill-disposed denizen of the mansion; and her fears at last became so strong, that she ventured to leave the rooms where she had been established, intending to retreat to some part of the house where her presence might at all events be less certainly expected than where she was. ❋ Various (N/A)
Hurstwood, with the usual defencelessness of youth, stood tongue-tied. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1939)
The Show (1925) represents the defencelessness of the individual against the press in a family tragedy where brutal newspaper curiosity functions like a deaf and unchecked machine, removing the possibility of any one being held responsible for the resultant evil. ❋ Unknown (1932)
