Unable to persuade Sacramento State to upgrade Hornet Stadium to something approaching professional standards, Anderson tried to get the city to build a new stadium for the Gold Miners and his minor-league baseball club.

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 persuade Chance to come clean about their role in Ling's death, Vukovich meets with Grimes, who advises him to turn himself in and testify against Chance in exchange for a lighter sentence.

Unable to persuade either Abe Burrows or Garson Kanin to update the plot, Capra began working on the screenplay himself.

Unable to persuade Eka not to fly to France, Ada and Marina accompany her along.

Unable to find a position in industry, he decided to accept an offer for a position as a post-doctorate.

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

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 to pay his debt, and faced with increasing encroachments onto Viti Levu's south coast from Ma ' afu, Cakobau approached the British consul with an offer to cede the islands to the United Kingdom, if only they would assume responsibility for his debt in return for 5, 000 square kilometres of land.

Unable to settle at Bury and frustrated by the lack of first-team opportunities, Jones decided to move to the Republic of Ireland and sign for League of Ireland side Sligo Rovers in July 1997, stating that Rovers manager Nicky Reid's offer of a full-time contract was what ultimately made up his mind.

Unable to convict Steinberg on the more serious charge of second-degree murder ( in New York State at that time, first degree murder applied only to those who killed police officers or had committed murder while already serving a sentence for a previous murder ), the jury convicted him of the second most serious charge, first-degree manslaughter.

Unable to penetrate their defences, Philip moved on.

Unable to find another job in local radio, Limbaugh moved back home to Cape Girardeau.

Unable to match growing Zulu strength, the Ngwane moved the center of their kingdom northward in the 1810s and 1820s.

Unable to achieve much else, Platov and Uvarov moved back to their own lines and the action was perceived as a failure by both Kutuzov and the Russian General Staff.

Unable to find permanent employment in England, Strauss moved in 1937 to the United States, under the patronage of Harold Laski, who bestowed upon Strauss a brief lectureship.

Unable to secure a living in New York, Macdonald-Wright moved to Los Angeles in 1918.

Unable to establish a strong fan base in Vancouver, the team was moved again in 1975 to become the Calgary Cowboys.

Unable to find or afford record albums, Gallagher stayed up late to hear Radio Luxembourg and AFN where the radio brought him his only exposure to the actual songwriters and musicians whose music moved him most.

Unable to perform in the San Francisco area, the play moved to Los Angeles where the play's attempt at a run was disrupted by the arrest of both Dixon and Bright at curtain down of fourteen consecutive performances.

Unable to get a raise at the Free Press, Young moved to Toronto in 1941, covering news and sports for the Canadian Press news agency.

Unable to find work in the North-East, Pickard moved to London in 1973 and started writing and directing radio and documentary film scripts.

Unable to improve her financial situation in Tinta, Matto de Turner moved to Arequipa where she worked as editor in chief at the newspaper La Bolsa Americana.

Unable to find work in professional baseball, he moved to Baltimore where he worked as a tool checker in an airplane manufacturing plant and later as a laborer for the City of Baltimore.

Unable to find work, and having gotten himself deeper into debt, Winn sold his printing setup and moved back to Mount Juliet.

Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to England.

Unable to afford her house payments, Maria moved José and the Millen family to Redwood City in 1932.

Unable to afford better accommodations, the Fishers next moved to a tiny French fishing village: Cros-des-Cagnes.

Unable to get a boat to Easter Island as they intended, they headed north, where Guevara's political consciousness began to stir as he and Granado moved into mining country.

Unable to do more than pillage the town before Medows arrived, Tipu then moved on to rampage through the Carnatic, destroying towns and seizing supplies as he went.

Unable to research or find a teaching position, Chancellor moved to Canada.

Unable to make the weight any longer, Burruni moved up to the bantamweight division.

Unable to reach a contract agreement with the Danish Superliga club he then moved to Swedish club Bodens BK in the winter of 2006, signing a two-year contract with the club.

Unable to stake a place in the side, Radford moved on to West Ham United in December 1976 for £ 80, 000.

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

Unable to afford the asking price, and concerned that, ostensibly because of the former private owner's tax concerns, Witten refused to reveal the provenance of the map, Yale contacted another alumnus, Paul Mellon, who agreed to buy it ( for a price later stated to be about $ 300, 000 ) and donate it to the university if it could be authenticated.

Unable to immediately accommodate this increased demand, the Florida Board of Control opened the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida on the campus of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee.

Unable to learn any other spells, which were afraid of sharing his head with one of the spells of the Octavo, Rincewind was dismissed from the University.

Unable to obtain an academic position in Quebec because of his atheism, he taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh from 1951 – 1957.

Unable to find an academic position in Leningrad due to anti-Semitism ( he was unable to apply for a PhD program ), Lotman went to Estonia in 1950 and from 1954 began his work as a lecturer at the Department of Russian language and literature of Tartu University and later became head of the department.

Unable to find a club, Quill turned to coaching, spending time as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with the women's soccer team at the University of Houston in 2007 and 2008.

Unable to return, he graduated subsequently from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was assistant professor of mathematics ( 1836 – 1837 ), professor of mathematics ( 1837 – 1840 ), and professor of Latin and Greek ( 1840 – 1848 ) in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Unable to come to terms with the Philadelphia Eagles, who had selected him in the 1959 NFL Draft, Carlton, a Duke University running back, traveled to Toronto and the Canadian Football League to play for the Argonauts.

Unable to return to Portugal as he wished, due to the persecutions of the Inquisition, he travelled throughout Europe before settling in Ferrara, Italy, at whose University he taught anatomy as an assistant to the physician Giambattista Canano.

Unable to secure an appointment with the university, he emigrated to the United States in 1892, at first practicing neurology and teaching at the University of Chicago, where he was exposed to the ideas of the Chicago functionalists.