Unable to decisively engage and defeat the standing Russian armies, Napoleon attempted to force the Tsar to terms by capturing Moscow at the onset of winter.

Unable to take the city by force of arms, Tarquin had recourse to a clever stratagem.

Unable to conquer the city by force, Charlemagne decided to retreat.

* Unable to defeat Agesilaus's army, Pharnabazus decides to force Agesilaus to withdraw by stirring up trouble on the Greek mainland.

Unable to take the city by force, he and some companions entered through an unused water conduit under the walls of the city, roused their supporters, and seized control of the city in a midnight coup d ' état.

Unable to use American force in North Asia, Roosevelt believed that Japanese expansionism into the area would further U. S. interests.

Unable to control the Albanians by force, the Ottoman government granted concessions on schools, military recruitment, and taxation and sanctioned the use of the Latin script for the Albanian language.

Unable to control the Albanians by force, the Ottoman government granted concessions on schools, military recruitment, and taxation and sanctioned the use of the Latin script for the Albanian language.

Unable to evade the British ships closing in, the German battleship was destroyed by a force including and.

Unable to break through the German line, the remaining men retreated towards the main force, now at Oosterbeek.

Unable to cross the river intact and still reach British lines, the Chindit force was forced to split into small groups to evade enemy forces.

Unable to find work he reluctantly joined the police force, but in his letters home he led his parents to believe that he had become a parish priest.

Unable to defeat Agesilaus's army, Pharnabazus decided to force Agesilaus to withdraw by stirring up trouble on the Greek mainland.

Unable to gain the support of Khabarov's men and having no adequate way to deal with the Manchus, Zinoviev and part of the force withdrew from the Amur.

Unable to make an impression on the French formations, some of the frustrated Mamluks rode off to attack Desaix's detached force.

Unable to remain in power by other means, in 1858 Linares did the unthinkable: he proclaimed himself " Dictator for Life ", ruling by decree and by the force of arms — paradoxically, in order to restore order and eliminate all coups in the future.

Unable to control the violence, Indonesia subsequently agreed to the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force.

Unable to force his way into Birmingham's first team after their return to the Premier League, he joined Watford in January 2010.

Unable to force a crossing, Osborne brought his artillery ( Co's A-G. 1t New York Marine Artillery ) to bear on the mill buildings in which the Confederates were barricaded.

Unable to find wind machines powerful enough to mimic hurricane force winds, Sertner brought in a jet engine to aim at the actors and props during necessary scenes.

Unable to ascertain the disposition of Lt Col. Scott's force, Jinkins decided to meet senior Japanese officers under truce at the town of Ambon.

Unable to control the Decepticons directly with their mental powers, the Hive were able to subdue them with their own machines and force them into the scheme, striking a deal to create both Headmasters and Targetmasters.

Unable to hold the force, the German units withdrew towards the northwest while the incomplete II Army Corps was left to stall the Soviet attack.

Unable to force the valve back open, they arranged for the backed-up sewage to be taken away in tanker lorries for treatment.

Unable to unload the cargo in any port, the crew was believed to have dumped much of it at sea.

Unable, however, to resist the urging of Charles V, the pope, after proposing Mantua as the place of meeting, convened the council at Trent ( at that time a free city of the Holy Roman Empire under a prince-bishop ), on December 13, 1545 ; the Pope's decision to transfer it to Bologna in March, 1547 on the pretext of avoiding a plague failed to take effect and the Council was indefinitely prorogued on 17 September 1549.

Unable to speak, and with blood pouring from his mouth, Orwell was carried on a stretcher to Siétamo, loaded on an ambulance and after a bumpy journey via Barbastro arrived at the hospital at Lleida.

Unable to stop his advance, Khosrau II was assassinated and the Sassanid empire fell into anarchy.

Unable to stop the growing civil unrest, Erich Honecker was forced to resign in October, and on 9 November, East German authorities unexpectedly allowed East German citizens to enter West Berlin and West Germany.

Unable to find the solution they woke Judit, who was asleep in bed and carried her into the training room.

Unable to end the impasse Taddeo was horrified to hear the fathers of the Council solemmly depose and excommunicate the Emperor on 17 July, while absolving all his subjects from allegiance.

Unable to locate a copy in any of its libraries, the Soviet Union was obliged to ask the Hoover Institution for a microfilm copy of its original edition of the first issue of Pravda ( dated March 5, 1917 ).

Unable to stop the rift within Calvinism, his father was forced to resign from his ministerial position, which he had held for three decades.

Unable to raise the required capital in Britain because of this, Edison was forced to enter into a joint venture with Swan ( known as Ediswan ).

Unable to limit what they called " government by injunction " in the courts, labor and its allies persuaded the Congress of the United States in 1932 to pass the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which imposed so many procedural and substantive limits on the federal courts ' power to issue injunctions that it was an effective prohibition on federal court injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes.

Unable to move the vessel, which slowly silted into place, Streeter claimed it made up the independent " United States District of Lake Michigan " and thereby was not subject to the laws of Illinois or Chicago.

Unable to appoint himself as the Western Roman Emperor, Orestes instead appointed his son Romulus Augustus as Romulus was a citizen of Rome.

Unable to come to terms with Hill, the producers re-shot the episode without him ( another character, Cinnamon Carter, listened to the taped message, the selected operatives ' photos were displayed in " limbo ", and the team meeting was held in Rollin Hand's apartment ), and reduced Briggs ' presence in the five episodes left to be filmed to a minimum.

Unable to attack any strongly fortified forts and cities, the raiders plundered the countryside, raiding towns and villages, weakening the French infrastructure, but the military value of the damage was only temporary.

Unable to sail to Italy during the winter, Titus celebrated elaborate games at Caesarea Maritima and Berytus, then travelled to Zeugma on the Euphrates, where he was presented with a crown by Vologases I of Parthia.

Unable to free himself, the wrestler was devoured by wolves.

Unable to escape, he was devoured and his remains found at the foot of a tree.

Unable to resist, utterly powerless to control his movements, he was diving headlong towards that ravening chaos, that age-old intelligence which was Cthugha.

Unable to compete in the new market economy and in need of massive repairs, the colorful ambience once associated with the bustling area of merchant stalls disappeared in 1971, when Les Halles was dismantled ; the wholesale market was relocated to the suburb of Rungis.

Unable to find the murderers, Diomedes founded a mythical city called " Oenoe " at the place where his grandfather was buried to honour his death.

Unable to fund repairs, the Commissioners closed the section above Coltishall, although it was not formally abandoned until 1928.