Remember we're dealing with a hideous world in which we are practically helpless... Keep still!

Now the tax cuts have left the federal government practically helpless.

For some reason he considered it advantageous for me to seem practically helpless.

She had quite enough to do as it was, with grandfather now practically helpless.

"What worries us and hurts the heart of Iraq is that these apparatuses are practically helpless," he said.

But he then realized that without his henchmen, he was practically helpless and unable to kill him.

I was practically helpless, hanging downward by the legs.

Though the police suspected this condition, they were practically helpless.

"There are few of them and practically helpless," he pointed out.

Some of the financiers were bound, and the rest were practically helpless.