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Unable and break
Unable to break Prewitt's spirit, Holmes orders First Sergeant Milton Warden ( Burt Lancaster ) to prepare court martial papers.
Unable to break the door down, James ran down to the back garden and climbed up a ladder to enter through the second-floor bedroom window.
Unable to influence naval operations from his purely administrative position, Tirpitz became a vocal spokesman for an unrestricted U-boat warfare, which he felt could break the British stranglehold on Germany's sea lines of communication.
Unable to break through the German line, the remaining men retreated towards the main force, now at Oosterbeek.
Unable to make a clean break from the pursuing British he abandoned plans to raid into Hyderabad and instead assembled his infantry and artillery.
Unable to break free of the addition, it quickly spirals out of control leading to a tragic end for Stefan.
Unable to break through the large number of people on the road, he took a shortcut through the woods.
Unable to raise enough money for nationwide tours in support of its previous albums, Petra received another break when the band Servant invited it to open on its 1981 – 82 tour.
Unable to break into the Sun Records label's stable of male artists, she received the advice and assistance of RCA Records ' Chet Atkins in forming this new label to release her music.
Unable to break the blockade by US Navy ships of southern ( Confederate ) ports, and hoping to draw these blockading ships away to counter other perceived threats, the Confederate States of America had commerce raiders built in Britain and France.
Unable to break it, he was only released from the hold when Michaels ran in to save him.
Unable to find the millionaire, the others return to the laboratory and the Krynoid tries to break its way in.
Unable to break into the Arsenal first team, Black signed for Crystal Palace in July 2000 for £ 500, 000.
Unable to break into the first-team early on in his career, he gained his first league experience whilst on loan at Charlton Athletic and made his debut versus v Crystal Palace on 4 April 1983.
Unable to break through the Japanese lines while carrying their wounded they entered the village of Naro, sending a villager to Deniki for help where Warrant Officer Wilkinson volunteered to lead a small patrol of native troops to Naro.
Unable to break out, the Portuguese expeditionary force was starved into submission.
Unable to break past the Japanese squadron by mid-afternoon, Korietz and the badly battered Varyag returned to Chemulpo harbor at 13: 15, where both took refuge near the neutral warships.

Unable and line
Unable to properly deploy into firing line and unwilling to face the deadly enfilade fire, the French infantry suddenly bolted to the rear, leaving their three cannons to be captured.
Unable to obtain a victory, Fabius withdrew the spearmen of the First Legion from the line and sent them under the command of Barbatus stealthily around the enemy flank into the hills behind, whence the latter had earlier descended.
Unable to swim, the protagonist's writings indulge in increasingly confused speculation of the physical, metaphysical and religious import of the date line.
Unable to convince them to hang up, Stretch is forced to keep the line open.
Unable to persuade the American government to agree with the British line over Yemen and the Congo, or to proceed with either a negotiated settlement with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev over Berlin or the Skybolt ballistic missile programme, he nevertheless played a significant role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and ensured that Britain's views were taken into account by the American government.
Unable to hit drones moving even in a straight line, the tests were later relaxed to hovering ones.
Unable to use the Highlander name in Japan and Australia because of a trademarked Hyundai Terracan trim line, Toyota calls the vehicle the ( pronounced Klu-ger ) there, the name derived from the German word klüger, which means clever or wise.
Unable to see clearly in the smoke, the panicked French gunners fired into the line of protecting frigates.
Unable to clear the potential explosion in time, Captain Katherine Janeway orders Voyager towards the freighter, anticipating bringing the ship's containment system back on line to contain the explosion in time.

Unable and defense
Unable to overcome his fear and horror of the slaughter occurring around him, Nova fails to act in his own defense when Spider-Man attacks him.
Unable to compete with U. S. defense spending, the Russians have engaged on this attack knowing that the U. S. will respond in kind, thus effectively ending the Cold War.
Unable to offer effective military resistance, on 23 December 1878, the Amir left Kabul for Turkestan, intending to seek Russian aid for the defense of his domains.

Unable and after
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 return the unsold games to defunct publishers after Christmas 1982, toy stores marked down the titles and placed them in discount bins and sale tables.
Unable to find work in New York, Philadelphia, or Boston, he signed on to play flute for the Peabody Orchestra in Baltimore, Maryland, shortly after its organization.
Unable to see after being dressed in a sweater knitted out of his fake fur, Preston blunders around and accidentally loads all of them onto the conveyor belt of his " Mutton-o-Matic " mincing machine.
Unable to stay away from music, Nichols formed a new Five Pennies band and began playing small clubs in the Los Angeles area soon after the war ended.
Unable to match the heavy Soviet and Chinese weapons in addition to the numerical strength of the Vietnamese forces, the Royal Lao Army took itself out of the conflict after heavy losses.
Unable to bear the continued presence of the uncouth Czervik at the club ( and after Czervik sank Smails ' small sloop during the christening ceremony ), Smails confronts him and announces that Czervik will never be granted membership.
When the expectation of his first appearance in London was close upon him he was so feverish that he exclaimed “ If I succeed I shall go mad .” Unable to afford medical treatment for some time, his elder son died the day after he signed the 3-year Drury Lane contract.
Unable to find local buyers and hampered by an unfavorable lease agreement for Raymond James Stadium, the league folded the franchise after the 2001 season.
Unable to face the famine of 1628 and the plague of 1630, the duchy, after a short-lived French conquest in 1701 during the War of Spanish Succession, passed to Austria on April 10, 1707.
Unable to prevent negotiations, Ludendorff stated in his 1920 memoirs that he had prepared a letter of resignation on the morning of 26 October, but changed his mind after discussing the matter with von Hindenburg.
* March 10 – Unable to clear trees beyond the end of the runway due to ice and snow on its wings, Air Ontario Flight 1363, a Fokker F28-1000 Friendship, crashes 15 seconds after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, killing 24 of the 69 people on board and injuring all 45 survivors.
Unable to remember his real name, Longshot becomes an adventurer and takes the name " Longshot " after several humans call him that due to his incredible good luck.
Unable to maintain himself there he marched to southern Bohemia, and after defeating the Catholics at the battle of Sudoměř ( 25 March 1420 ) in the first pitched battle of the Hussite wars, he arrived at Ústí, one of the earliest meeting-places of the Hussites.
Unable to defeat this resistance, and as Alvarado was nursing a painful leg wound from a Pipil arrow in the first battle, the Spanish forces returned after a few months to the Mayan cities in the highlands.
Unable to regain his employment in Ferrara, he re-entered the service of the House of Farnese, and after a stay in Antwerp, returned to Italy again, this time to Parma, in 1560.
Unable to keep up with the strenuous academics, Mosby left the college after two years.
Unable to do much damage to each other due to their healing factors, they relented after Wade agreed to hand Alex his pancreas back.
Unable to have children, in 1966 they adopted a baby at birth and named her Quintana Roo, after the Mexican state.
Unable to get a clarification from the ill writer, the BBWAA, after considering disallowing the ballot, decided to accept it, count the first place vote for Campanella and count the fifth place vote as though it were left blank.
Unable to speak immediately following his surgery, McCleary sent a written note to his teammates explaining he was all right while his surgeon revealed that he came " as close ... as you could come " to dying in the moments after he was struck.
Unable to find an American publisher after creating its first images in 1991, creators Tom Baccei and Cheri Smith managed to make a deal with Tenyo, a Japanese company that sells magic supplies.
Unable to get sufficient money, the team left F1 after the 1978 season, despite having a car built for 1979.

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