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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.
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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 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 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 and American
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 retain their new-found American audience or rekindled British following, the album failed to live up to expectations and the band largely faded from sight once more.
Unable to figure out the size of the American army due to the wooded hills, he sent a rider to warn the 40th British Regiment which he had left in Princeton, then wheeled the 17th and 55th Regiments around and headed back to Princeton.
Unable to use American force in North Asia, Roosevelt believed that Japanese expansionism into the area would further U. S. interests.
Unable either to expand external borrowing further or to ramp up export earnings easily, many Latin American countries faced no obvious sustainable alternatives to reducing overall domestic demand via greater fiscal discipline, while in parallel adopting policies to reduce protectionism and increase their economies ' export orientation.
Unable to understand what the children were saying to each other, they asked for outside help, and in June 1986, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education contacted Judy Kegl, an American Sign Language linguist from MIT.
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 sell the operation outright to Northwest Airlines, American Airlines, or USAir Group, the banks negotiated a complex marketing arrangement in which USAir Group would assume 40 % ownership and agree to manage the operation for ten years, including fares, financial record keeping, advertising, promotions, aircraft maintenance, and labor relations.
Unable to secure a ride for 1984, Martin went back to driving in the American Speed Association.
Unable to get favorable prices from American steel manufacturers, and unhappy with the imported steel available at the time, Iverson ( a metallurgist by training ) decided to integrate Nuclear backwards into steel making by building its first steel bar mill in Darlington, South Carolina in 1968.
Unable to withstand the cannon, the rebels began an unorganized retreat out of the pueblo as American foot forces stormed the breach.
Unable and government
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 leave Switzerland, where he and his young wife spent most of the war, Smith reported whatever the Swiss government would permit.
Unable to regain the Druk Gyalpo's trust, Lhendup fled to London, while other supporters in the military and government fled to Nepal and Calcutta.
Unable to compete with this Cosgrave and his party lost the election, and a minority Fianna Fáil government came to power.
Unable to publicly voice their grievances to the government about their missing loved ones, for fear that they would " go missing " too, the women of Chile would pin photos of their " disappeared " relatives on their clothing, and dance in silent outrage against the government in public places.
Unable to impose unconstitutionally his will upon the lawfully elected government, he chose to neutralise it for the time being.
Unable to match the UFA's appeal to rural voters, Stewart's government was defeated at the polls and he was succeeded as premier by Herbert Greenfield.
Unable to achieve an honorable peace himself, Ludendorff had handed over power to the new civilian government, but he then blamed them for what he felt was a humiliating armistice that U. S. President Woodrow Wilson was proposing.
Unable to control the Albanians by force, the Ottoman government granted concessions on schools, military recruitment, and taxation and sanctioned the use of the Latin script for the Albanian language.
Unable to control the Albanians by force, the Ottoman government granted concessions on schools, military recruitment, and taxation and sanctioned the use of the Latin script for the Albanian language.
Unable to find significant interest in distribution of the effective games through health care providers, insurers, and government agencies, Click Health closed its doors in August 2001.
Unable to overcome the affection that the people had for this paragon of traditional samurai virtues, the Meiji Era government pardoned him posthumously on February 22, 1889.
Unable to cope with Britain's economic problems in the early 1960s, and a focus of public unpopularity for the " Pay Pause " of the early 1960s, he was sacked from the government during the " Night of the Long Knives " reshuffle, and returned to the backbenches.
Unable to negotiate with the Delegatura, Stalin changed his tactics and forged ahead with forming a provisional government for the liberated territories that excluded them.
Unable to keep up with its debt repayments, and due to the government refusal to pump more money into the airline, Ghana Airways was liquidated in June 2005.
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 acquire funds, California's government turned to Washington D. C. for assistance, hoping that the federal government would provide financial assistance or purchase the bonds.
Unable to gain a parliamentary vote of confidence, his government fell on 22 December 1966.
Unable to cope with the failures of prohibition, especially bootlegging and organized crime as well as reduced government revenue, the League failed to counter the repeal forces, led by prominent Democrats, which helped Franklin D. Roosevelt win in 1932.
Unable to prove his identity or his eligibility for employment, Gales is repeatedly arrested and deported from one country to the next, by government officials who do not want to be bothered with either assisting or prosecuting him.
Unable to pay its mortgage to the Canadian government, Rochdale drifted towards insolvency.
Unable and agree
Unable to agree on the status of sweatshops, the abolitionists working with the League of Nations and the United Nations ultimately backed away from efforts to define slavery, and focused instead on a common precursor of slavery – human trafficking.
Unable to agree among themselves, the members of the Legislative Assembly surrendered their political privileges and asked for establishment of direct British rule in return for the greater security of crown colony status.
Unable to agree on further debates, the leaders went on to appear separately on stage for questioning at community fora in Sydney and Brisbane.
Unable to agree on a name ( which included suggestions like The Beggermen, the Tinkers and even The Chieftains ) the club owner decided for them, simply posting " The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem ".
Unable to agree on a contract, Langkow and the Coyotes went to arbitration where he was awarded a two-year contract worth $ 4. 2 million.
Unable to agree to a new deal with the Avalanche, Laperrière signed a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on July 1, 2009.
Unable to agree on a nominee, the delegates voted to reconvene in June.
Unable to agree where to attack first, the Indians split into two large bodies, variously estimated at between 300 and 1, 000 Cheyenne and Sioux, moving against Fort C. F.
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 agree on a selling price for the old fort, after removing his inventory of goods, Bent blew up and set fire to the old fort.
Unable to agree, the people separated, leaving Nephi alone.
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