Unable to make any headway, Bruce agreed to a pact with Mowbray — if no relief came by midsummer 1314, the castle would surrender to Bruce.

Unable to make any further progress against Verdun frontally, the Germans turned to the flanks, attacking on the west bank, or left bank, of the Meuse river at the hills of Le Mort Homme on 6 March and Côte ( Hill ) 304 on 20 March.

Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin.

Unable to make Linda realize his true identity, the Swamp Thing sadly ambles to his boggy home.

Unable to counter the Muslim numbers, Nikephoros agreed to make peace on condition of paying 50, 000 nomismata immediately and a yearly tribute of 30, 000 nomismata.

Unable to make a living due to health concerns, Selby decided, " I know the alphabet.

Unable to make a profit, the farmers decided to sell their land to the city.

Unable to make good on his claims or repeat any of his previous feats, he becomes a laughingstock.

:# to make an action or event a matter of record ( e. g. " Unable to book a hotel room, a man sneaked into a nearby private residence where police arrested him and later booked him for unlawful entry.

Unable to make himself understood, his only identifying possession was Frederick Treves ' card.

Unable to make any normal contact, Clegg decides to add her to his " collection " of pretty, petrified objects, in the hope that if he keeps her captive long enough, she will grow to love him.

Unable to make headway on either problem, Tejada provided the malcontent younger officers of the Bolivian military just the excuse they needed to overthrow the Constitutional order and install themselves in power.

" Unable to make headway in the district, he circulated a particularly venomous pamphlet blasting the district's Baptists, and galloped safely back into the mountains as the district's enraged residents demanded he be hanged.

Unable to hold elective office by the terms of his parole, he continued to make his opinions known by writing letters to newspapers.

Unable to fully control her time-controlling / traveling abilities and powers, Gear created the belt to make sure that her ability would not randomly go off.

Unable to make any headway, the Spartans withdrew in some confusion to the northern end of the island, where they dug in behind their fortifications and hoped to hold out.

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 make radio contact, as the radio was damaged in Zabrinski's fall, Carpenter just receives a message from the Dolphin telling them to return at once, as the ice is closing.

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 make any money as a composer, he went into business, running a hunting, shooting and fishing store in Launceston ( Sculthorpe's ) with his brother Roger.

Unable to use the letter of the Bible to make a scriptural case against slavery in itself, the moderates argued that although slavery had been acceptable in biblical times, it had become a sin.

Unable to make any significant gains in action, Pyrrhus deployed his elephants, held in reserve until now.

Unable to jettison his propellants, Crossfield was forced to make an emergency landing during which the excessive load on the aircraft broke its back just behind the cockpit.

Unable to make such a link, Independent Counsel dismissed the gratuities charge against Sun-Diamond.

Unable to make ends meet and discouraged by the Canadian art scene, he considered moving to the United States.

Unable to reconcile with Laney, Zack ends up attending the prom with his sister, while Taylor arrives alone thinking that Zack is still interested in her.

Unable to clear his name or return to the USA, McGill makes ends meet by working as a travelling private detective and bounty hunter, based in Britain, living out of his suitcase ( hence the title ).

Unable to meet the cost of joining a cavalry regiment, Rundstedt joined the 83rd Infantry Regiment in March 1892 as a cadet officer ( Portepee Fähnrich ).

Unable to meet the borrowing requests of all their corporate customers, commercial banks helped their “ best customers ” establish programs to borrow directly from the “ capital markets ” by issuing commercial paper.

Unable to meet the king, Ravaillac interpreted Henry's decision to invade the Spanish Netherlands as the start of a war against the Pope.

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 meet its payout obligation and more than $ 1 million in debt, the Cherry Bowl folded.

Unable to meet the charges brought against him, he compromised matters by resigning his governorship and his senatorship, and surrendering all his private property in Norway to the crown.

Unable to meet demand, Pinin Farina asked Mario Boano, formerly of

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 meet the expenses of his rank, which was equivalent to that of a colonel in the army, he retired in 1775.

Unable to meet the minimum stadium requirements for Super League ( as part of Rugby Football League's new ' framing the future ' guidelines ), the Rams proposed a ground share with Sheffield Eagles, playing home games at their Don Valley Stadium while their own stadium was improved.

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.