Richard Dawkins has rejected the charge of " fundamentalism ," arguing that critics mistake his " passion "— which he says may match that of evangelical Christians — for an inability to change his mind.

The government's inability to deal with many of the nation's problems — such as infant mortality, illiteracy, deficient health and social services, and rising levels of violence — contributed to popular discontent.

Possible opportunity costs of a city's decision to build a hospital on its vacant land are the loss of the land for a sporting center, or the inability to use the land for a parking lot, or the money that could have been made from selling the land, or the loss of any of the various other possible uses — but not all of these in aggregate.

: MySQL 5. 1 and 6. 0 showed poor performance when used for data warehousing — partly due to its inability to utilize multiple CPU cores for processing a single query.

If Wernicke ’ s area is damaged in the non-dominant hemisphere, the syndrome resulting will be sensory dysprosody — the inability to perceive the pitch, rhythm, and emotional tone of speech.

Harding made his foray into politics running for the Marion County Auditor's office, primarily to gain political exposure — his inability to win election was a foregone conclusion in the heavily Democratic county.

Palestinian elections scheduled for January 2002 were postponed — the stated reason was an inability to campaign due to the emergency conditions imposed by the Intifada, as well as IDF incursions and restrictions on freedom of movement in the Palestinian territories.

The story ends with a hint of hope for him, as he admits his responsibility for what happened to Podkayne — that he " fubbed it, mighty dry " — then shows some human feeling by regretting his inability to cry and describes his plan to raise the fairy himself.

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.

People with extensive, bilateral hippocampal damage may experience anterograde amnesia — the inability to form or retain new memories.

Night blindness — the inability to see well in dim light — is associated with a deficiency of vitamin A.

Due to their lack of speed and their inability to bite or sting, millipedes ' primary defense mechanism is to curl into a tight coil — protecting their delicate legs inside an armored body exterior.

It was rejected, because the story — centered on a society where people were executed when they turned 60 due to their inability to contribute to society — was considered too depressing by network executives.

Akathisia — that is, " inner tension, restlessness, and the inability to stay still "— caused by sertraline was observed in 16 % of patients in a case series.

Workers have sometimes circumvented these restrictions by falsely claiming inability to work due to illness — this is sometimes called a " sickout " or " blue flu ", the latter receiving its name from the uniforms worn by police officers, who are traditionally prohibited from striking.

Following the release of First and Last and Always, produced by David M. Allen ( producer of albums such as The Cure's Disintegration, but not to be confused with the bass player of Gang of Four — also a record producer ), Marx split from the band in the middle of a supporting tour, citing inability to continue working with Eldritch.

* The inability to recognize & articulate " compiled " or highly intuitive competencies — tacit knowledge idea

Notwithstanding their inability to write in tandem — which stemmed from clashing literary and personal philosophies — they were able to publish one chapter from an attempted travelogue in May 1912, for which Kafka wrote the introduction.

Bush's unwillingness to place greater prominence on indices might have stemmed from his inability to visualize a near-term mechanical process for their creation, rather than a failure to recognize their utility once obtained.

The story arc of Willow's growing dependence on magic was noted by Marti Noxon as the representation of " adult crossroads " and Willow's inability and unwillingness to be accountable for her own life.

Maximilian's power was very limited ; it was inability rather than unwillingness that prevented him from yielding to the entreaties of Pope Pius V to join in an attack on the Turks both before and after the victory of Lepanto in 1571 ; and he remained inert while the authority of the empire in north-eastern Europe was threatened.

At the trial, Meursault's quietness and passivity is seen as demonstrative of his seeming lack of remorse or guilt by the prosecuting attorney, and so the attorney concentrates more upon Meursault's inability or unwillingness to cry at his mother's funeral than on the actual murder.

* The inability or unwillingness of the peered network to provision additional capacity for peering.

When Mersault is prosecuted for shooting an Arab man during a fight, the prosecuting attorneys seem more interested in the inability or unwillingness of Meursault to cry at his mother's funeral than the murder of the Arab, because they find his lack of remorse offensive.

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 ).

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By 1936, the inability of the city's government to collect taxes, combined with the unwillingness of the residents to pay them, resulted in bankruptcy.

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.

Aposiopesis (; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, " becoming silent ") is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.

Branden, in response, sent out a letter to the NBI mailing list, suggesting that the actual cause of Rand ’ s denunciation of him was her inability to accept his unwillingness to engage in a romantic relationship with her.

On 15 August 2008, Cadence withdrew this offer quoting an inability to raise the necessary capital and the unwillingness of Mentor Graphics ' Board and management to discuss the offer.

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.

Time and again she pokes fun at his inferior taste in music, his inability and unwillingness to read books, and his chauvinism.

Stroheim's unwillingness or inability to modify his artistic principles for the commercial cinema, his extreme attention to detail, his insistence on near-total artistic freedom and the resulting costs of his films led to fights with the studios.

Afroman based the song's lyrical content on his inability or unwillingness to clean his room ; and ran with the idea of everyday tasks being derailed by drug use.

' His difficulties with Cartesian Dualism arose, not from an inability to understand how material and immaterial substances could interact, but from an unwillingness to accept any unextended entity as any kind of real entity.

Compulsive hoarding ( or pathological collecting ) is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that would seemingly qualify as useless or without value.

The Monarchy's inability or unwillingness to come to terms with its nationalities problems weakened the parliamentary system at a time of escalating international crises.

Flemish criticism is not limited to the size of the transfers but also extends to the lack of transparency and the presumed inability or unwillingness of the recipients to use the money wisely and thus close the economic gap with Flanders.

* Many members of the Infinity Watch were chosen for their inability or unwillingness to use their assigned Gem's full potential.

It contains a selection of illustrated poems dedicated to different aspects of male life, including inability to dance, old stuff in the fridge, and unwillingness to clean anything.

However many believe that they are necessary to compensate for the formal education system's inability or unwillingness to address particular individual problems.