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inability and make
Fredrik laments his inability to make love to his wife (" Now ").
An inability of cells to use centrioles to make functional cilia and flagella has been linked to a number of genetic and developmental diseases.
Disappointed by his failure to make a career in the military and his parents ' inability to finance his doctoral studies, he was forced to take a low-paying office job after obtaining his agricultural diploma.
But they were thwarted by their inability to challenge Hitler, who could neither make decisions himself nor trust anyone else to do so.
Rosencrantz does not quite make the connection, but Guildenstern is frightened into a verbal attack on the Tragedians ' inability to capture the real essence of death.
The restriction on Congress's inability to " make or alter " regulations pertaining to the places of choosing Senators is largely an anachronism.
Those in favor of the bill say that the act prevents those convicted of crimes from " thwart justice and avoid just punishment by filing frivolous appeals for years on end ," while critics argue that the inability to make multiple appeals increases the risk of an innocent person being killed.
For example, he would obsess over comparing restaurants or what to wear, leaving him the inability to make simple, quick decisions.
In Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that " being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry.
Having made several visits to his Irish estates beginning in 1647, Robert moved to Ireland in 1652 but became frustrated at his inability to make progress in his chemical work.
While Kennedy had originally supported the policy of sending military advisers to Vietnam, he had begun to alter his thinking due to what he perceived to be the ineptitude of the Saigon government and its inability and unwillingness to make needed reforms ( which led to a US-supported coup which resulted in the death of Diem ).
After the success of The Circus, Chaplin had originally wanted to make a film about a circus clown who goes blind and has to conceal his handicap from his young daughter by pretending that his inability to see were pratfalls.
Author Michael Freedland, in his biography of Peck, substantiates the report and says that Johnson indicated that his presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Peck would perhaps make up for his inability to confer the ambassadorship.
Much of the dialogue in Absurdist drama ( especially in Beckett's and Albee's plays, for example ) reflects this kind of evasiveness and inability to make a connection.
They were slow ( men could run, and frequently walk, faster ); vulnerable ( to artillery ) due to their size, clumsiness and inability to carry armour against anything but rifle and machine gun ammunition ; extremely uncomfortable ( conditions inside them often incapacitating crews with engine fumes and heat, and driving some mad with noise ); and often despicably unreliable ( frequently failing to make it to their targets due to engine or track failures ).
Due to the Fuzhou immigrants having no legal status and inability to speak Cantonese, many were denied jobs in Chinatown as a result causing many of them to resort to crimes to make a living that began to dominate the crimes going on in Chinatown.
Louise Kreutzer, a Huntley native, tells of land regularly changing hands due to settlers ’ inability to make mortgage payments and wealthy landowners being quick to foreclose.
This is seen most poignantly in " The Body " when her inability to comprehend Buffy's mother's death leads to inappropriate remarks which at first make others angry, but then allow for catharsis and comfort.
The resulting feeling of isolation and inability to make lasting contact with the outside world led to increasing despair and thoughts of suicide.
Although individuals with NPD are often ambitious and capable, the inability to tolerate setbacks, disagreements or criticism, along with lack of empathy, make it difficult for such individuals to work cooperatively with others or to maintain long-term professional achievements.
However, sales were thwarted by an inability to make the album available in stores.
Although confident that the brigade box could be held, the inability of the 50th ( Northumbrian ) Infantry Division to make significant progress towards relieving the position prompted the decision to recall the Brigade group and straighten the front line.
In despair at her inability to make him acknowledge her despite all she had done for him, she committed suicide, leaving behind the smeared gown and a letter he did not receive at the time because of his hasty departure abroad.
He has a journalist's ear for an attention-grabbing headline, but his career may be held back by his inability to remember how to make the letter " b ".

inability and headway
The inability of the German blitzkrieg to make headway against such grinding and self-sacrificial attrition warfare made the failure to capture Pavlov's House ( despite numerous attempts ) stand out as a symbol of resistance against a vastly superior force.
Frustrated and depressed over the deaths of his brothers ( especially the 1987 suicide of brother Mike ), and the inability to make headway as a wrestler due to his physical build, Chris shot himself in the head on September 12, 1991, eighteen days before his 22nd birthday.

inability and against
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.
Embezzlers tend to have a gripe against their employer, have financial problems, or simply an inability to resist the temptation of a loophole they have found.
In part due to their own inability to control unruly corporate behavior, the tide turned against the guilds.
His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones all worked against him.
These humiliations, the weakening of the empire in the face of Muslim expansion, and the inability of the emperor to protect the papal estates against the Lombards, made Pope Stephen II turn from Emperor Constantine V. He appealed to the Franks to protect his lands.
Trusts may be used to protect beneficiaries ( for example, one's children ) against their own inability to handle money.
* Spanish government lifts the restrictions against neutrals trading with the colonies, thus acknowledging Spain's inability to supply the colonies with needed goods and markets.
Zhou's reported anxieties were compounded by the death of his uncle, Zhou Yikui, an inability to master Japanese, and an acute Japanese cultural chauvinism that discriminated against Chinese.
Customers who had lost their arbitration cases against Morgan Stanley DW Inc. because of their inability to obtain these emails to demonstrate Morgan Stanley's misconduct received a token amount of money as a result of the settlement.
Mark Mardell of the BBC news reported: On the Monday the Conference was to begin, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini ( who was until last year the European commissioner for security and justice ) had told the Italian newspaper Il Giornale that Europe's failure to agree on a common approach was " a very serious mistake, because it shows our inability, despite all the words uttered in this connection, to come up with at least a lowest common denominator on a basic problem: namely the struggle against discrimination, on behalf of which we in Brussels so often speak out ".
Writing against the monk Pelagius, whom he understood as teaching that man's nature was unaffected by the Fall, or at least was only weakened in the Fall, and that he was free to follow after God apart from divine intervention, Augustine developed the doctrine of original sin and, Calvinists contend, the doctrine of total inability.
The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all.
Charging by single regiments against an enemy who committed entire brigades and divisions in coordinated actions, the Austrians, although superior in overall numbers, had been overwhelmed, a testament to their chronic inability to coordinate large-scale cavalry charges.
Often heard arguments against OSS are: the API is practically impossible to virtualize, it lacks support for modern audio features such as timer-based scheduling or proper surround sound support, inability of its developers to work with the Linux kernel community, lack of integration with modern kernel features such as the device model, too low-level interface, as well as general rejection of its design with moving a lot of signal processing code into the kernel.
The mass's violence as well as Hidalgo's inability or unwillingness to suppress it caused the creoles and peninsulares to ally against the insurgents out of fear.
Bows are unaffected by the triangle, can attack from a distance, and do higher amounts of damage against flying units like pegasi, but this is offset by the bow-wielder's inability to counter-attack melee strikes.
Widespread unemployment caused by the Great Depression and allegations of corruption against Squires and his government along with the government's inability to deal with the economic crisis created widespread discontent and political instability.
The Tanners did concur with Hofmann in contending that the LDS church's apparent inability to discern the forged documents was evidence against church leadership being divinely inspired.
Large demonstrations in protest of his arrest and an inability to trump up charges against him forced the government to release him after three months.
Turner's inability to overcome the alleged resentment against Trudeau, combined with his own mistakes, resulted in a debacle for the Liberals.
The Marines were asked to take on the Aidid snatch mission, but having the advantage of being in the area for more than two months decided after mission analysis the mission was a " no-go " due to several factors centered around the inability to rescue the crew of a downed helicopter ( re: the indigenous forces technique of using RPGs against helicopters and blocking the narrow streets in order to restrict the movement of a ground rescue force.
# repeated inability to defend against urges to steal things that are not essential for private use or for their economic value ;
At the cellular level, the term " anergy " defines the inability of an immune cell to mount a complete response against its target.

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