Unable to convince his associates to abandon tradition and consider escape, and reasoning that modern Kryptonian society had grown cold, unfeeling and thus decadent, Jor-El removed the Eradicator's planetary binding genes from his genetic pattern, took the birthing matrix of his unborn son Kal-El and attached a prototype interstellar propulsion system to the vessel.

Unable to convince anyone that she is not the mother, Polly gives up and starts raising the child.

Unable to convince Rowling of the merit of his case, a disillusioned Douglas decided to stand down from parliament at the 1981 election.

Unable to convince Xerox management of the commercial value of Warnock's InterPress graphics language for controlling printing, the two left Xerox to co-found Adobe Systems.

Unable to convince Xerox management of the approach to commercialize the InterPress graphics language for controlling printing, he, together with Geschke and Putman, left Xerox to start Adobe in 1982.

Unable to convince Bobby to join her there, however, she flew back to California.

Unable to convince them to hang up, Stretch is forced to keep the line open.

Unable to bring himself to do this, Sloane set up an elaborate ruse, including the amputation of Emily's finger, to convince the Alliance that she was dead.

Unable to convince Smith to provide direct assistance to Hobart, President Stewardson redirected the negotiations toward founding a coordinate institution for women, a plan that appealed to the philanthropist.

Unable to convince them and despite being vastly overpowered, Mothra calls the pair of them " bullheaded " and resolves to fight Ghidorah by herself.

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

Unable to convince the state legislature to grant him another term ( U. S. Senators were chosen by state legislatures until the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment ), he returned to his Chattanooga law practice, dying in that city in 1937 and being buried in its Forest Hill Cemetery.

Unable to allow such a game of death to exist like his Rider predecessor, Shinji sets out to convince all the Riders to end the senseless fighting and put an end to the War.

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 convince Ryu or his friends to do the same, he morphs into his Dragon Lord form and fought them, only to be defeated, his dying words revealing that he just wanted to be with his " family ", Ryu and Rei.

Unable to convince the lords or Arthus that Bragan is a traitor, Djana goes on the run with Herik, Tara-a member of the People of the Sea, often referred to as Barbarians-and Wip, a small dragon, and are branded outlaws by Bragan.

Unable to deal with Veronica being in constant danger, Logan tries to convince her to drop her investigation into the rapes and even has a bodyguard tail her without her knowledge, infuriating Veronica when she finds out.

Unable to convince his board of directors, largely composed of investment bankers with little aviation knowledge, he resigned in 1924, and supported by old friend and Wright chief engineer George J. Mead, he developed a proposal for a high-powered air-cooled aircraft engine for the U. S. Navy.

Unable to convince the Sultan, he is held captive and the only way where he allows him to go is when Astro fights Pluto.

Unable to convince the emperor, in 1124, Dashi led a band of his fellow Khitans and moved to Kedun, a Liao garrison town in the north-west.

Unable to politely refuse Carreidas's offer of a lift, Tintin and his friends join the millionaire on his prototype private jet.

Unable to stir her memories, he " gives up ", but not the way the Tracker hoped he would ; he chooses to join Annie forever in Hell.

Unable to hold down a place in the side, he was allowed to join Blackpool on loan until the end of the season.

Unable to fight in sanctioned events, Vandenberg left Belgium to join the French Foreign Legion.

Unable to join the other Power Rangers on their trip to Murianthias, he sent a 12-year-old freshman and friend, Justin Stewart ( who had learned of the Rangers ' identities by accident ), in his place.

Unable to enter the ghetto to join his comrades in battle, he nonetheless proved a crucial link between resistance forces within the ghetto and the Home Army on the " Aryan " side.

Unable to turn down Duryodhana's request to join the Kauravas, Shalya met Yudhisthira and apologized for his mistake.

Unable to solicit any response from the controlled miller, the Doctor and Mace decide to join Nyssa in the TARDIS.

Unable to agree on a contract with general manager Frank Cashen for, Knight earned the distinction of becoming the first player to join a new team the season after winning the World Series MVP award, signing with the Baltimore Orioles.

Unable to secure promotion in the British Army, in 1769 he returned to Poland and saw action in the Russo-Turkish War, and lost two fingers in a duel in which he killed his opponent.

Unable to mediate between Turkey and Russia over the control of Serbia, Austria – Hungary declared neutrality when the conflict between the two powers escalated into the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ).

Unable to return to Europe in the middle of World War I, Alexandra and Yongden traveled to Japan.

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 garner the required funds or merge with a top amateur team, and in part due to strains brought on by World War I and later the 1918 flu pandemic, the Bulldogs decided to suspend operations for the league's inaugural season.

Unable to operate conventional surface tenders during World War II, the German Navy used Type XIV submarines ( milchcows ) as tenders instead.

Unable to pass as normal due to the external physical changes their mutations caused, the Morlocks squatted in a network of abandoned, interconnected tunnels beneath Manhattan, which had originally been built as Cold War bomb shelters and then forgotten.

Unable to pass as normal due to the external physical changes their mutations caused, the Morlocks squatted in a network of abandoned, interconnected tunnels beneath Manhattan, which had originally been built as Cold War bomb shelters and then forgotten.

Unable to find funding for the purchase of a fence, Major James W. Ripley requested obsolete cannons from government storage, some from the Revolutionary War.

Unable to purchase Martini-Henry rifles from the British because their entire production was going to rearming British troops, Turkey purchased identical ( to the Mark I ) weapons from the Providence Tool Company in Providence, Rhode Island, USA ( the manufacturers of the predecessor Peabody rifle and used them effectively against the Russians in the Russo-Turkish War ( 1877 – 1878 ).

Unable to reconnect due to the outbreak of World War I, Alois abandoned the family, leaving William to be brought up by his mother.

Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of the outbreak of World War II, she joined Billy Rose's Aquacade, where she took on the role vacated by Eleanor Holm after the show's move from New York City to San Francisco.

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 fight the Japanese army head-on, the Righteous Army split into small bands of partisans to carry on the War of Liberation in China, Siberia and the Jangbaik Mountains in Korea.