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 elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives, Manning proceeded to rule without Parliament until the need to pass a Budget forced him to call elections in October 2002.

Unable to call himself Holocaust, Smalls renamed himself Pyre.

Unable to convince him to call it off, Zero is left to do busy-work in the meantime.

Unable to make a deal for the KLTY call letters ( because they were held by an FM station in Liberty, Missouri ) or the services of Rivers ( who worked at 102. 9 KMGC ), he hired Paul Martin, Chuck Gratner, and Mark Elfstrand ( Johnson ) and launched KOJO at 94. 1 FM the following year.

Unable to use any of the dilapidated buildings remaining on the island from previous occupants, they constructed a crude shelter from cement bags and tin salvaged from Quonset huts built by the American military twenty years earlier.

Unable to afford new stationery, he wrote on the verso side of old manuscripts.

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 support himself, on May 27, 1827, Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private.

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 fight on the front lines, he began working as an orderly in the Voluntary Aid Detachment ( VAD ) in the First Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, located on the outskirts of Liverpool.

Unable to afford the services of the Elvis band for a month, the band featured the talents of obscure Colorado-based rock guitarist Jock Bartley ( soon to skyrocket to fame with Firefall ), veteran Nashville sideman Neil Flanz on pedal steel, Kyle Tullis on bass and former Mountain drummer N. D. Smart ( once described by Canadian folksinger Ian Tyson as " a psychotic redneck ").

Unable to pass through Kennesaw, Sherman swings his men around to the Chattahoochee River where the Confederate army is waiting on the opposite side of the river.

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 either to stay in France or to move to Germany, Marx decided to emigrate to Brussels in Belgium, but had to pledge not to publish anything on the subject of contemporary politics in order to enter.

Unable to achieve this merger on its own, Wintermute recruited Armitage and his team to help complete the goal.

Unable any longer to resist the urgency of the French cardinals, and with numerous cities of the Papal States in revolt, Urban boarded a ship at Corneto heading for France on 5 September 1370, arriving back at Avignon on the 24th of the same month.

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 penetrate their defences, Philip moved on.

Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3, 225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Unable to pay back gambling debts, he took a cash advance and then defaulted on his repayments.

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 secure Curtin's support, and with an unworkable parliamentary majority, Menzies faced continuing problems with the administration of the war effort and the undermining of his leadership by members of his own coalition.

Unable to find facts that support his thesis, Mr. Bamford relies on false information and mischaracterization to create his story .” The post goes on to address numerous factual errors in Bamford ’ s article.

Unable to support his wife otherwise, Burgoyne again sold his commission, raising £ 2, 600 which they lived off for the next few years.

Unable to support his family, he was forced back to Sydney by poverty, ill health and drunkenness.

Unable to meet payroll or get financial support from area businessmen ( an important factor even in those days ), Miller returned the team to the league with five games to go in the season.

Unable to support their families, many unemployed men deserted ( often going to " Hoovervilles ") so the meagre relief supplies their families received would stretch farther.

Unable to muster an army and lacking support from the German states, the Assembly could not resist Austrian power.

Unable to provide a viable candidate for the French throne ( the League's support was split among several candidates, including Isabella, a Spanish princess, which made them appear to no longer have French interests at heart ), the League's position weakened, but remained strong enough to keep Henry from besieging Paris.

Unable to gather enough support for his position at the convention, Wilkinson then approached Miró with a proposal.

Unable to reach the heavily contested location alone, Kovacs enlists the support of one of the major companies involved in feeding the war, the Mandrake Corporation, which is represented by an executive named Matthias Hand.

Unable to support her family without her husband's income, Jack's mother sent him to Mr Garrett's School, a workhouse near St Helen's Bishopsgate, when he was six years old.

Unable to work to support his family and with the savings spent the family survived in a one room apartment by selling his Chinese art collection, but this did not provide enough to avoid malnutrition.

Unable to influence Machado, Welles negotiated an end to his presidency, with support from General Herrera, Colonels Castillo and Delgado, and Enrique Ros.

Unable to rally sufficient support, he resigned in July 1917 in favour of his Minister of Justice, Alexander Kerensky.

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 any concessions to the commercial aspects of the theatre, tired of looking to his friends for support, he felt he had no alternatives.

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 support his own counter-charges, and unable to convince the jury of his innocence, Means was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to two years in federal prison.

Unable to support its albums with live performances, Black Sheep came prematurely to a screeching halt.

Unable to get the tsar ’ s support for his country, died as a broken man in Astrakhan.

Unable to support her children through hunting under such harsh conditions, she moved to Baker Lake in 1958.

Unable to rally support, he signed a resignation as president on April 10, 2010 and left the country for Kazakhstan.

Unable to control the Viet Minh's access to food supplies or their grassroots village support, the US military response was simple: If you can't control it, kill it.