" ( This aspect of our nature is often referred to as the ' Car Crash Syndrome ' or ' Trainwreck Syndrome ', derived from the notorious supposed inability of passersby to ignore such accidents.

But Jan Herman, one of Wyler's biographers, asserts " there is no reason to doubt " Vidal's claim, and that Wyler's inability to remember the conversation was just part of the director's notorious caginess.

For example, the VCOs were notorious for their inability to hold a fixed frequency for any extended period of time and would often change pitch and go out of tune, especially in hot or damp environments.

::( 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.

Years later, when Karmal's inability to consolidate his government had become obvious, Mikhail Gorbachev, then General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, said:

Years later, when Karmal ’ s inability to consolidate his government had become obvious, Mikhail Gorbachev, then General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, said:

His inability to speak English fluently may have caused Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey to sell him to the Chicago White Sox although, Rickey later admitted that the move was a mistake.

The CBSA was created in an attempt to address issues found in a review by the Auditor General including an inability to share certain security information and shortcomings in inter-agency communication.

Increasingly unable to exert credibility despite the lack of evidence for the allegations, on 21 June 1984, Secretary General Orfila resigned his post, expressing frustration over the OAS ' inability to influence U. S. Latin American policy during the 1980s.

In 2002, a Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission ( JLARC ) study commissioned by the Virginia General Assembly concluded that " given the inability of the state to fund future capital requirements of the CBBT, the District and Commission should be retained to operate and maintain the Bridge-Tunnel as a toll facility in perpetuity.

Meanwhile, in Washington, General George Marshall and the Chief of Army Air Forces, Lieutenant General Henry Arnold, had become alarmed at Brett's integration of the USAAF and RAAF, and disturbed by his inability to work with MacArthur.

However, the inability of the trolley system to lay enough track to fully serve the area prompted the 1925 addition of another bus system by National City Bus Lines, a subsidiary of General Motors.

For every fiscal year since 1996, when consolidated financial statements began, the Comptroller General has refused to endorse the accuracy of the consolidated figures for the federal budget, citing "( 1 ) serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense, ( 2 ) the federal government ’ s inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal agencies, and ( 3 ) the federal government ’ s ineffective process for preparing the consolidated financial statements.

His inability to contain a smaller Confederate army under General Joseph E. Johnston within the Shenandoah Valley was a proximate cause for the Union Army's defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run, but among Johnston's stated reasons for avoiding pursuit of the shattered Union Army as it fled in retreat to Washington, the size, integrity and mobility of Patterson's Army is prominent.

The inability of any candidate to receive the required majority of 76 legislators forced the General Assembly to re-vote each morning of the session.

The 2002 ceremony was held at Halifax's Pier 21 to mark the 50th anniversary of Canadian Governors General, but the most common reason for the insignia not being presented at Rideau Hall is the recipient's inability to travel to Ottawa.

According to Dr. Ingolf Sander, General Manager of Products until 2001, the reason for the company shutting down " could have stemmed from their inability to overcome stability problems " in the fluorescent materials used to make FMDs.

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.

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 Army of Missouri failed in its campaign primarily due to Price's inability to properly employ the principles of " compound warfare ".

On page 478 of Jonathan Franzen's 2010 novel Freedom, Walter attributes his inability to stop having sex with Lalitha to their " daily propinquity.

On April 10, 2007, the Apache Software Foundation sent an open letter to Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz regarding their inability to acquire an acceptable license for the Java SE 5 Technology Compatibility Kit ( TCK ), a test kit needed by the project to demonstrate compatibility with the Java SE 5 specification, as needed by the Sun specification license for Java SE 5.

The boys were de facto orphans adrift in American society ; as such, they embodied facets of Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation, a little bit of Marlon Brando's wild side from The Wild One, James Dean's inability to settle down and fit in from Rebel Without a Cause, and the wanderlust of the above-mentioned Jim Bronson, the traveling writer and loner who toured the USA on a motorcycle in the 1969-1970 series Then Came Bronson.

Wild Child possessed a low level of intelligence ( comparable to that of a dog ) and an inability to communicate verbally.

Some of those who did not initially react with an arm-elevation also associated their behavior in the situation with control factors -- an inability to relinquish control voluntarily.

A number of harmful and undesired ( adverse ) effects have been observed, including lowered life expectancy, extrapyramidal effects on motor control – including akathisia ( an inability to sit still ), trembling, and muscle weakness – weight gain, decrease in brain volume ( although this is being debated, since schizophrenia, which is often treated with antipsychotics, also causes a shrinkage of brain volume ), enlarged breasts ( gynecomastia ) in men and milk discharge in men and women ( galactorrhea due to hyperprolactinaemia ), lowered white blood cell count ( agranulocytosis ), involuntary repetitive body movements ( tardive dyskinesia ), diabetes, sexual dysfunction, a return of psychosis requiring increasing the dosage due to cells producing more neurochemicals to compensate for the drugs ( tardive psychosis ), and a potential for permanent chemical dependence leading to psychosis worse than before treatment began, if the drug dosage is ever lowered or stopped ( tardive dysphrenia ).

He compared man unfavorably to machines: “ In the face of the machine we are ashamed of man ’ s inability to control himself, but what are we to do if we find the unerring ways of electricity more exciting than the disorderly haste of active people [...]” " I am an eye.

In military use, the standard hand cannon was tremendously powerful, while also being somewhat useless due to relative inability of the gunner to aim the weapon, or control the ballistic properties of the projectile.

In part due to their own inability to control unruly corporate behavior, the tide turned against the guilds.

With his inability to control the feuding nobles, civil war began in 1455.

Cape Town's inability to control the territory led to its return to crown control in 1884 as the Territory of Basutoland.

For example, though someone might control a lump of jelly-pudding almost completely, the inability of that pudding to stage any resistance renders that person's power rather unimpressive.

The first is possession, which can be defined as control over a resource based on the practical inability of another to contradict the ends of the possessor.

This can be due to excessive interference, loss of referee's control over the match, one or more participants sustaining debilitating injury not caused by the opponent, or the inability of a scheduled match to even begin.

Ali bin Abdullah's increasing financial difficulties and inability to control striking oil workers and obstreperous shaykhs, however, led him to succumb to British pressure.

The other was his inability to control his sons and to force the other sons to accept Gruffydd as his successor.

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), DID includes " the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states " that alternate control of the individual's behavior, accompanied by the inability to recall personal information beyond what is expected through normal forgetfulness.

** Narcolepsy: A chronic neurological disorder ( or dyssomnia ), which is caused by the brain's inability to control sleep and wakefulness.

Second, the queen is not hampered by the bishop's inability to control squares of the opposite color to the square on which it stands.

Bell's palsy is a form of facial paralysis resulting from a dysfunction of the cranial nerve VII ( the facial nerve ) that results in the inability to control facial muscles on the affected side.

Facial palsy is typified by inability to control movement in the facial muscles.

Users of the PageMaker-LaserWriter-Macintosh 512K system endured frequent software crashes, cramped display on the Mac's tiny 512 x 342 1-bit monochrome screen, the inability to control letter spacing, kerning ( the addition or removal of space between individual characters in a piece of typeset text to improve its appearance or alter its fit ) and other typographic features, and discrepancies between the screen display and printed output.

The cessation of mission operations and deactivation or hibernation of the spacecraft was determined by the inability to prevent attitude control fuel from freezing.

Ralph Glaber, however, attributes Hugh's request to his old age and inability to control the nobility.

Ralph Glaber, however, attributes Hugh's request to his old age and inability to control the nobility.

Liberal international relations theory arose after World War I in response to the inability of states to control and limit war in their international relations.

Outsider musicians usually have much " greater individual control over the final creative " product either because of a low budget or because of their " inability or unwillingness to cooperate " with modifications by a record label or producer .< ref name =" autogenerated2 ">