Unable to escape, the POWs could only scream and thrash in desperation.

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 escape the orbit of God's power and mercy, Sinuhe exclaims: “ Whether I am in the Residence, or whether I am in this place, it is you who cover this horizon ”.

Unable to escape and completely surrounded, the two Ranger battalions fought on until ammunition and resources were empty.

Unable to escape, the Trigati destroys itself rather than surrender.

Unable to escape, Muta and Rab stand their ground against waves of Nagru's rat troops, fighting until they collapse under the innumerable odds, presumed dead.

Unable to escape, he is eaten by an anaconda underwater.

Unable to escape, Yatz injects the last sample of smart-skin, still somewhat unstable, into Ryder's body in an attempt to keep it safe from the mobsters.

Unable to bear being confined, Terangi repeatedly tries to escape, lengthening his sentence by another 16 years, much to the delight of a particularly harsh jailer ( John Carradine ).

Unable to escape the Frankish siege, Rastislav surrendered, turned over a numerous high-ranking hostages and swore a new oath of fidelity.

Unable to abide by Kale ’ s hypocritical domestic rules, she finds her only hope of escape to lie in the intervention of the hated Keshav, who promptly brings her back to a Bombay festooned with billboards of her own face, and to the same drab hotel and lonely prospects.

Unable to escape, Coolgin accepts his fate and perishes in the explosion.

Unable to escape the unprovoked lathi charge and firing by the police, many jumped into the flooded river.

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 absorb the force of the explosions, the vibranium was destroyed, but it did succeed in entirely absorbing the sound made by the explosion preventing damage to the surrounding area.

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 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.

Unable to find targets through cloiud cover, Z XII drops no bombs, but over Calais, France, on the way home makes the first use of a manned observation car lowered by winch below the Zeppelin through clouds to allow observation while the airship remains safely above cloud cover.

Unable to persuade Harvard to offer a degree in playwriting, he moved to Yale University in 1925, where he helped found the Yale School of Drama.

Unable to return to Christ Church to continue his studies, he found work as a radio broadcaster.

Unable to win over Khabibulin to start the season, Huet found himself on the bench more often than not.

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 determine where Murphy was firing from, the German force first became confused and then was bombed by U. S. fighter-bombers that had found a hole in the clouds over the battlefield.

Unable to invent a cure, Thumb ultimately died at the team's headquarters in Squadron City and was placed in the Hibernaculum, a form of suspended animation he invented to preserve the bodies of diseased or recently deceased persons until a remedy could be found for whatever disease or injury that could not be treated by present day medicine.