unable

They are simply unable to make it.

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain Across the country, many similar families were unable to maintain the initial boost in morale(士气).

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

Their art crime team recovered the letter but were unable to press charges because the time of limitations had ended.

Those who added dessert lost an average of 40 pounds more—however, the study was unable to show the longterm effects.

without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.

Most recruiters are unable to control their racial biases.

If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them.

To date, the US has seemed unable to see the consequences of spending so much more than is taken in.

It renders us unable to concentrate

Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.

But surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep because your brain is thinking about work.

But when two H-bots became imperiled, the robot choked 42 percent of the time, unable to decide which to save and letting them both.

Otherwise, it would be unable to grow from a seedling.

Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area.

They have to give so much thought and attention to the low-level mechanics of handling the ball, or fingering the keys or reading the music, that they are unable to give any thought to the thing that matters—the game, or the music, respectively.

According to the card, if you are unable to go, you can contact Alice's mother.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

She's unable to meet her schedule.

They were unable to stand the winter.

Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path.

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

Sometimes parents get exhausted and frustrated and are unable to maintain a tolerant and composed style with their kids.

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with microsoft's default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.