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Unable to secure Curtin's support, and with an unworkable parliamentary majority, Menzies faced continuing problems with the administration of the war effort and the undermining of his leadership by members of his own coalition.
Unable to find facts that support his thesis, Mr. Bamford relies on false information and mischaracterization to create his story .” The post goes on to address numerous factual errors in Bamford ’ s article.
Unable to support his wife otherwise, Burgoyne again sold his commission, raising £ 2, 600 which they lived off for the next few years.
Unable to support his family, he was forced back to Sydney by poverty, ill health and drunkenness.
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 support their families, many unemployed men deserted ( often going to " Hoovervilles ") so the meagre relief supplies their families received would stretch farther.
Unable to muster an army and lacking support from the German states, the Assembly could not resist Austrian power.
Unable to provide a viable candidate for the French throne ( the League's support was split among several candidates, including Isabella, a Spanish princess, which made them appear to no longer have French interests at heart ), the League's position weakened, but remained strong enough to keep Henry from besieging Paris.
Unable to gather enough support for his position at the convention, Wilkinson then approached Miró with a proposal.
Unable to reach the heavily contested location alone, Kovacs enlists the support of one of the major companies involved in feeding the war, the Mandrake Corporation, which is represented by an executive named Matthias Hand.
Unable to support her family without her husband's income, Jack's mother sent him to Mr Garrett's School, a workhouse near St Helen's Bishopsgate, when he was six years old.
Unable to work to support his family and with the savings spent the family survived in a one room apartment by selling his Chinese art collection, but this did not provide enough to avoid malnutrition.
Unable to influence Machado, Welles negotiated an end to his presidency, with support from General Herrera, Colonels Castillo and Delgado, and Enrique Ros.
Unable to rally sufficient support, he resigned in July 1917 in favour of his Minister of Justice, Alexander Kerensky.
Unable to gain the support of Khabarov's men and having no adequate way to deal with the Manchus, Zinoviev and part of the force withdrew from the Amur.
Unable to make any concessions to the commercial aspects of the theatre, tired of looking to his friends for support, he felt he had no alternatives.
Unable to raise enough money for nationwide tours in support of its previous albums, Petra received another break when the band Servant invited it to open on its 1981 – 82 tour.
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 support its albums with live performances, Black Sheep came prematurely to a screeching halt.
Unable to get the tsar ’ s support for his country, died as a broken man in Astrakhan.
Unable to support her children through hunting under such harsh conditions, she moved to Baker Lake in 1958.
Unable to rally support, he signed a resignation as president on April 10, 2010 and left the country for Kazakhstan.
Unable to call on the support of other AFL unions in its fights with employers, the Iron Workers relented the following year and ceded pile driving work, with the exception of work related to bridge building, to the Carpenters.
Unable to control the Viet Minh's access to food supplies or their grassroots village support, the US military response was simple: If you can't control it, kill it.

Unable and himself
Unable to succeed himself, he left his office in 1952 as the first president in 28 years to complete his term in office.
Unable to rule himself, he appoints his son Romulus Augustus.
Unable to produce the design himself due to lack of funding, he sold the patent in 1908 to William Henry Hoover who had Spangler's machine redesigned with a steel casing, casters, and attachments.
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 bring himself to deliver a fatal blow, Obi-Wan retrieves his former apprentice's lightsaber and returns to the shuttle, leaving Vader to die.
Unable to free himself, the wrestler was devoured by wolves.
Unable to tolerate the religious situation any longer he eventually emigrated himself in 1633.
Unable to board the plane, Travis sacrifices himself when he closes the 747's hatch, just as the sleeve breaks and he is sucked from the F-117 into open air.
Unable to associate himself decisively with either party, Chamberlain sought concerted action with a kindred spirit from the Conservative Party, Lord Randolph Churchill.
Unable to bring himself to kill such a skilled musician, the emperor ordered his eyes put out.
Unable to finalise a third album, Shields isolated himself and, in his own words, went " crazy ", drawing comparisons in the music press to the behavior of musicians such as Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd.
Unable to make himself understood, his only identifying possession was Frederick Treves ' card.
Unable to rule effectively himself, Suleiman II shrewdly appointed Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha as his Grand Vizier.
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 shake off his pursuers, Zu Mao then dismounted, hanged the scarf onto a half-burnt pillar, and hid himself in the tall grasses nearby.
Unable to maintain himself there he marched to southern Bohemia, and after defeating the Catholics at the battle of Sudoměř ( 25 March 1420 ) in the first pitched battle of the Hussite wars, he arrived at Ústí, one of the earliest meeting-places of the Hussites.
Unable to repair it, Overton attempted to produce a metal replica and Finbar and himself spent many hours in the shed at the back of Bernard's house in Rugby, designing, testing and ultimately perfecting the flute.
Unable to give anything but small pieces of information at various press conferences held during the 23 dark days, Moose finds himself vilified and derided in many corners as ineffectual and incompetent.
Unable to explain himself, Prince Jianglü committed suicide, but Emperor Jing, having compassion on him, permitted his son Liu Shou ( 劉壽 ) to inherit the principality.
Unable to exercise his duties, he and his ministers were sacked by President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara on 27 May ; Mara intended to assume emergency powers himself but was himself deposed by the military leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
Unable to express himself verbally, he strikes and accidentally kills Claggart.
Unable to bring himself to do this, Sloane set up an elaborate ruse, including the amputation of Emily's finger, to convince the Alliance that she was dead.
Unable to help her himself, the policeman brings out a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner from the back of his van.

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