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inability and contain
After the battle was won, the inability to contain enemies who escaped death led to widespread epidemics affecting not only the enemy forces, but also surrounding regions ' inhabitants.
While the strikes were largely over by February 1979, the government's inability to contain the strikes earlier helped lead to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative victory in the 1979 general election and legislation to restrict unions.
The magazine was mentioned by then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in 2000 in an attack on then Conservative Party leader William Hague's inability to contain " extremists " within the party ; Cook criticised Hague for not shutting the magazine down.
Breast reduction surgery cannot be performed if the woman is lactating, or has recently ceased lactating ; if her breasts contain unevaluated tissue masses, or unidentified microcalcifications ; if she is suffering a systemic illness ; if she is unable to understand the technical limitations of the plastic surgery ; and her inability to accept the possible medical complications of the procedure.
The novel leaves Elizabeth and the reader uncertain of Darcy's emotions and the adaptation uses additional scenes to hint at Darcy's inability to physically contain or verbally express his emotional turmoil.
Despite a valiant effort, Maryland's inability to contain Anthony Roberson from behind the arc and shooting just 36 % from the free throw line led to a less than auspicious christening of the facility against a ranked opponent.
This is often justified on the grounds that it might enable inmates to plan escapes or other crimes, or may contain material encouraging disorder in the prison, but that prison officials would not recognise them due to their inability to understand what was written or said.

inability and smaller
This is a result of a lack of ventilation in the cramped housing of the smaller unit and the inability to dissipate heat generated by the newer drive, which could damage the circuit board.
Since habitat fragmentation is the subdivision of a large area of habitat into smaller isolated patches, fragmentation is thought to have severe effects on the genetic structure of populations through population bottlenecks followed by erosion of genetic diversity, which results in fitness reduction and the inability of a population to respond to environmental changes.
The Passenger pigeon is a famous example of probably the most numerous land bird on the American continent which had evolved for communal breeding that went extinct due to large scale hunting in its communal breeding grounds during the breeding season and its inability to breed in smaller numbers.
His inability to manage a budget plus the smaller number of students ( 200 for the 3 cooks vs. 800 + in the unit dorms ) resulted in very good food.
The apparent failure of the party to take advantage of this majority and inability to influence the politics of the government led to a split within the party in 1913 and poor showing in the 1912 Duma election, resulting in a smaller faction in the Fourth State Duma ( 1912-1917 ).
Psychophysiologically, beating and auditory roughness sensations can be linked to the inability of the auditory frequency-analysis mechanism to resolve inputs whose frequency difference is smaller than the critical bandwidth and to the resulting irregular " tickling "

inability and Confederate
Rosecrans had been a popular and respected commander, but because of his defeat at Chickamauga and inability to lift the Confederate siege, Grant chose to replace him with George H. Thomas on October 28, 1863.
Although Meigs had not intended to collect the remains of Confederate war dead, the inability to identify remains meant that both Union and Confederate dead were interred below the cenotaph.
Grant's brilliant tactical improvisation had been thwarted not only by a stout Confederate defense, but also mainly by the inability of subordinates to carry it out.
Shortages caused by the Union blockade and the Confederate requisitioning of supplies and slaves have turned the home from a house of plenty to one of mere subsistence, while the inability to sell their cotton to England has also greatly diminished the family's once-lavish income and lifestyle.

inability and army
Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.
Soon after the election 1993, Patassé became unpopular within the army, not least because of his inability to pay their wages ( partly due to economic mismanagement and partly because France suddenly ended its economic support for the soldiers ’ wages ).
Mark Clark allegedly exploited Alexander's supposed inability to assert his will over his army commanders.
During this time, Nasser became highly concerned with Amer's inability to train and modernize the army, as well as the state within a state he created by transforming the army and the intelligence apparatus — the latter was led by Salah Nasr — into " a separate fiefdom loyal to him personally ," according to Aburish.
Fulk cited the inability of his largely barren kingdom to support the passage of a substantial army.
The fall of Laos was essentially due to repeated outright invasions by Vietnam and the inability of the army of Laos to defend the country.
The inability to select anyone to lead certainly contributed to the wholesale retreat of an army that possibly could have defeated the Franks.
The First French Republic, starting from a position precariously near occupation and collapse, had defeated all its enemies ( Bar Britain and the United States, whose inability to directly strike at France made this a moot point ) and produced a revolutionary army that would take the other powers years to emulate.
* In Red vs Blue, when the character Church is thrown back in time in Episode 50, he tries to prevent certain things from happening, in the process leading to everything becoming the way it was: kicking dirt on a switch hoping it to be replaced, instead it was kept and later got stuck ; giving his captain painkillers to prevent a heart attack, but killing him because the captain is allergic to aspirin ; trying to make the tank not kill him by disabling the friendly-fire protocol, which later proves his death ; telling the tank and robot that they should not leave and build a robot army, thereby giving them the idea to do it ; trying to shoot O ' Malley with the rocket launcher only to shoot Tucker because of the launcher's highly defective targeting system and his inability to aim.
While the army lacked technical means of tracking the guerilla groups, the FSB suffered from insufficient human intelligence due its inability to build networks of agents and informants.
The government's inability to eliminate Museveni and win the civil war, however, sapped its economic strength, and the occupation of a large part of the country by an army hostile to the Ugandans living there furthered discontent with the regime.
But the weakness of the Norwegian coastal defences, and the inability of her field army to resist effectively a determined invasion by a stronger power were clear.
Moreover, he mentioned that here were combat skills proficiency problems caused by the inability of his under-strength army to withdraw front-line units for training in the rear area.
In his paper Assessing Compound Warfare During Price's Raid, written as a thesis for the U. S. Army Command and General Staff College, Major Dale E. Davis postulates that Price's Missouri Raid failed primarily due to his inability to properly employ the principles of " compound warfare ", which requires an inferior power to effectively utilize regular and irregular forces in concert ( such as was done by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong against the French and Americans during the Vietnam War ) to defeat a superior army.
Despite the commanding officer strongly pressing to let him deal with it, Bozz says he wants Wilson " out of the army " because he recognizes Wilson has taken an emotional beating ever since his inability to command became obvious.

inability and under
* In his autobiography, Harold Bauer-His Book, pianist Harold Bauer laments his inability to play well under pressure.
The Speaker of the House is one of the officers to whom declarations of presidential inability of or ability to resume the presidency must be addressed under the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
Additionally, the president pro tempore is one of the two authorities to whom declarations of presidential inability or of ability to resume the presidency must be transmitted under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution ( the speaker is the other ).
::( 2 ) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection.
::( 1 ) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President pro tempore to act as President under subsection ( b ) of this section, then the officer of the United States who is highest on the following list, and who is not under disability to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President shall act as President: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security.
Subsection ( d ) of this section shall apply only to officers appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, prior to the time of the death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, of the President pro tempore, and only to officers not under impeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office of President devolve upon them.
:" No person shall be registered as an elector of this state or be allowed to vote in any election held herein, unless he be able to read and write any section of the Constitution of the state of Oklahoma ; but no person who was, on January 1, 1866, or any time prior thereto, entitled to vote under any form of government, or who at that time resided in some foreign nation, and no lineal descendant of such person, shall be denied the right to register and vote because of his inability to so read and write sections of such Constitution.
By her own account, Alliluyeva retained respect and affection for Wes Peters, but their marriage dissolved both under the pressure of Mrs. Wright's influence and because of Svetlana's inability to adjust to the Taliesin cult-like lifestyle, which she compared to life in the Soviet Union under her father.
" The echoes of the dying controversy are thus distinct and not very distant in this book, though it also offers in its larger outlook, in the author's evident uneasiness under the burden of inherited beliefs, and his inability to reconcile them with his new standpoint and accepted principles, a curious forecast of his later development, while in its positive premisses it presents a still more instructive contrast to the conclusions of his later dialectic.
The theory has since come under attack for its failure to understand the nature of the market and for its inability to account for new empirical data.
Congress, acting under the powers conferred upon it by Article II, section 1 of the United States Constitution, and by section 3 of the 20th Amendment, has provided for cases where neither a President nor Vice President is able to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President via the Presidential Succession Act ( officially styled " An Act to provide for the performance of the duties of the office of President in case of the removal, resignation, death, or inability both of the President and Vice President ").
Citing the inability to raise enough funds to continue operation under the WNBA's new restructuring agreement, the organization ceased operations.
In particular, the death at Indian hands of the attractive young Loyalist settler Jane McCrea was widely publicized and served as a catalyst for rebel support, as Burgoyne's decision to not punish the perpetrators was seen as unwillingness or inability to keep the Indians under control.
Callwell ’ s 2 volume “ Life and Diaries ” in 1927 damaged Wilson ’ s reputation – the “ New Statesman ” thought they showed him to be “ the typically stupid militarist … fundamentally a fool ” Sir Charles Deedes, who had studied under him at Staff College and later served on his staff, commented that Wilson came across in the diaries as “ an ambitious, volatile and even fatuous character, an intriguer concerned mainly with his own career ” and that this was “ far from the truth ” – Deedes commented that Wilson ’ s ability to see both sides of a question and inability to make a decision and stick to it made him a poor corps commander but a “ patient, lucid and fair ” adviser.
Even at a depth of underwater, an inability to equalize air pressure in the middle ear with outside water pressure can cause pain, and the tympanic membrane can rupture at depths under 10 ft ( 3 m ).
In the United States, under the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles receivables are considered sold, under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 140, when the buyer has " no recourse ,".< Ref Name =" NonRecourse "> This means that the factor cannot obtain additional payments from the seller if the purchased account does not collect due solely to the financial inability to pay of the account debtor ; however, " quality recourse " still exists.
In other words, the nonrecourse factor who assumes credit risk bears the credit loss and incurs bad debt if a purchased account does not collect due solely to financial inability of the account debtor to pay .</ ref > Moreover, to treat the transaction as a sale under GAAP, the seller's monetary liability under any " recourse " provision must be readily estimated at the time of the sale.
Due to BEA's inability to take over the UK domestic flights of independent scheduled operators such as Railway Air Services, Allied Airways ( Gandar Dower ) and British Channel Islands Airways on 1 August, these independents continued to ply their scheduled routes under contract to BEA until they were absorbed into the corporation in 1947.
It was with Hines in the Grand Terrace that soon-to-be Bebop saxophone giant Charlie Parker got his first professional job, until he was fired for his " time-keeping " — by which Hines meant Parker's inability to show up on time despite Parker resorting to sleeping under the Grand Terrace stage in his attempts to do so.
Availability never fell under 90 % and the final report stated, " It has not been possible to prove any disadvantage in the " S " inability to fire on the move.
Concerned with the time-consuming nature of a contempt proceeding and the inability to extend punishment further than the session of the Congress concerned ( under Supreme Court rulings ), Congress created a statutory process in 1857.

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