Unable to publicly reach a consensus because of constant political wrangling, the Michigan House of Representatives privately chose the Township of Lansing out of frustration.

Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class.

Unable to continue the siege in the face of the Bulgarian onslaught, the impenetrability of Constantinople's walls, and their own exhausted provisions, the Arabs were forced to abandon the siege in August, 718.

Unable to perform their songs live as a duo and with the impending release of their first album, Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos decided to create a live performing ensemble and they recruited four musicians to enable them to undertake concerts and TV appearances.

Unable to penetrate their defences, Philip moved on.

Unable to return home with honor, as Klingons are supposed to commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner, they stayed and strayed from their way of life.

Unable to deny their presence in the chamber, Democrats then tried to flee the chamber or hide under their desks, but Reed ordered the doors locked.

Unable to appeal their decision, Tinsley resigned his title as World Champion and immediately indicated his desire to play against Chinook.

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

Unable to assist all of their colonies the Dutch had to allow the Portuguese to reconquer Brazil.

Unable to maintain professional armies, the city-states relied on their own citizens to fight.

Unable to take the city by force, he and some companions entered through an unused water conduit under the walls of the city, roused their supporters, and seized control of the city in a midnight coup d ' état.

Unable to find their target, the men drove around in search of a Catholic.

Unable to reprogram the mission computers, both Mars 2 and Mars 3 dispatched their landers immediately, and the orbiters used up a significant portion of their available data resources in snapping images of the featureless dust clouds below, rather than the surface mapping intended.

Unable to reprogram the mission computers, both Mars 2 and Mars 3 dispatched their landers immediately, and the orbiters used up a significant portion of their available data resources in snapping images of the featureless dust clouds below, rather than the surface mapping intended.

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

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 book shows anywhere else, the Bloodhound Gang first performed an extra room at Evil Jared Hasselhoff's house, in exchange for Schlitz, Marlboros, and a chance to hand out their first demo tape, entitled Just Another Demo.

Unable to trap Lafayette, the British resumed their march north from Philadelphia to New York ; the Continental Army, including Lafayette, followed and finally attacked at the Monmouth Courthouse in New Jersey.

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 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 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 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 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 forget his semi-enslaved family — whose " workers ' paradise " is slowly starving to death — he designs a cheap but durable gun ( because the libertarians on Pallas, to their shame, did not have a domestic firearms industry ), and sets about liberating his former commune.

Unable to govern effectively without control of the Senate, Cook decided to bring about a double dissolution election under section 57 of the Constitution of Australia.

Unable to teach because of the strike, Lomax, decided to see about resuming his collecting of cowboy ballads with a view to publishing them in a book.

Unable to secure a recording contract, they disbanded about a year later.

Unable to argue against the overwhelming scientific evidence about tobacco's harmful health effects, the tobacco industry seized upon the FCTC's potential for economic harm.

Unable to visualize a general structure of caste which would displace Dumont's theory, they hang on to it unremittingly even though their own evidence shows again and again that this theory simply does not explain what is known about India ...

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 read the burned notes, Hugo apparently never learns about what his father was working on and thus never desires revenge or create a time machine, causing the Hugo and Margarete in the present to disappear.

Unable to close the demoralizing inns about the church he obtained by gift from an Irishman 20 acres ( 81, 000 m² ) of land for the erection of new parish buildings and abandoned the old site.

Unable to continue moving easily into Trafalgar Square, at about 3pm the march stopped in Whitehall.

Unable to maneuver because of the infantry milling about the Roman cavalry broke into small groups, some dismounting and fighting as infantry.

Unable to endure the defeat of his country, and having made up his mind back in 1944 about this perspective, he took poison the same day.

Unable to wipe their memories as she had already used that spell, Nico stops the Yorkes with her most complex spell yet (" The show must go on "), revealing a painful secret about the Yorkes: the Yorkes will remember everything they now know about their daughter's upcoming death as well as their own, but are enchanted to be unable to act on this knowledge in any way, even to each other ; they cannot change the future or say anything that would cause a Grandfather Paradox.

Unable to pursue the villain due to being cut off from the Celestial World with no MAGI and fearing the destruction of the world is at hand, the protagonist's father reappears and reveals the Guardians spread misinformation about the MAGI and that there are actually 78.

Unable to teleport to Helios, they look for affordable spaceship transportation and find it in the form of hippie Zodiac Hobo and his anonymous ship, which complains about its status as such until Merle names it Trigger.

Unable to sleep, Lindbergh reminisces about his recent days as an airmail pilot flying from St. Louis to Chicago.

Unable to effect Armstrong ’ s release by diplomatic means, on the night of 13 April 1596 Buccleuch led a party of about eighty men to Carlisle.

Unable to find her friend, and increasingly concerned about the presence of the scooter rider, Jane decides to look for the local police officer ( John Nettleton ).

Unable to take anymore, one night Snoopy breaks down crying, then once he's done he goes about converting to his " new life " in order to survive, baring his fangs and falls to walking on all fours.