Inability
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Any move the Democrats make will be unpopular with their own voters and will simply shift attention from Trump’s
inability
to solve the problem to their own lack of a plan.
Leveraging Japan’s
inability
to feed itself, trade negotiators now argue that Japan needs to open up to imports or face being shut out of global food markets by fast-growing giants like China.
That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin’s era: the
inability
to distinguish between the Soviet past and the Russian present; an unscrupulous mix of political conservatism and historical revisionism; and indifference, bordering on incomprehension, with regard to the key values of democracy.
What Congress cannot do is pretend that wrong-footed trade policy is the answer to its
inability
or unwillingness to refocus its domestic policy agenda.
The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the
inability
of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.
This
inability
to discuss, clearly and forthrightly, this strategic doctrine continues to hamper the Alliance.
And in Uganda, poor high school students say the
inability
to pay fees, purchase uniforms, or obtain school supplies is a constant source of humiliation.
The leadership vacuum caused by America’s unwillingness to cooperate and Britain’s sudden
inability
to lead resulted in the failure of the London Conference of 1933, which is often seen as opening the way to the Great Depression and the catastrophe of World War II.
Europe’s debt crisis – and its leaders’ apparent
inability
to take coordinated action – gave the Kremlin additional ammunition.
An
inability
to resolve the distributional and fairness problem can produce gridlock, paralysis, and prolonged stagnation.
But that position is difficult to reconcile with Germany’s
inability
to call into question the euro or European structures and treaties.
The problem is that the old European parties’ intellectual and moral foundations have rapidly eroded in recent years, owing partly to their failure – or
inability
– to adapt to EU-level systems.
In the short term, Syria and its neighbors are already paying the price of America’s
inability
to focus on anything other than domestic politics since Obama’s re-election.
Likewise, anthropological work across a great range of societies clearly describes emotions of sadness that develop in response to frustration in love, humiliation by rivals, or the
inability
to achieve valued cultural goals.
All conditions that display five or more of nine symptoms – including low mood, lack of pleasure, sleep and appetite difficulties,
inability
to concentrate, and fatigue – over a two-week period are now considered depressive disorders.
An executive’s
inability
to cash out shares and options for a substantial period would tie his or her payoff to long-term shareholder value.
The police arrested one of the attackers, but did not refer the case for prosecution – an outcome that, Martha believes, had a lot to do with her
inability
to pay the unauthorized “processing fee” that some police officers impose on rape victims and their families.
Likewise, our
inability
to come together to stop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes against his own people has left a void that Putin and Iran have filled.
Fourth, in choosing cyclical measures to deal with structural problems, policymakers have complicated matters even more – a reflection, again, of their
inability
to understand the unusual challenges that they face.
Ineffective regulation in areas like food safety, infectious diseases, cyber security, energy markets, and air safety, combined with the
inability
to manage regional tensions and conflict, will undermine global flows and reduce prosperity everywhere.
The failure of the UK’s “Remain” campaign to rebut concerns about migration reflects the wider
inability
of the global elite to convince people that the free movement of capital, goods, and people is in general good for everyone.
They result either from policy elites’
inability
to convince domestic constituencies of the benefits of the alternative, or from their unwillingness to make adjustments to ensure that everyone does indeed benefit.
But eurozone leaders’
inability
to assuage doubt about their commitment to the euro after two and a half years of crisis suggests that the problem is deeply rooted.
The
inability
to accommodate Germany’s rise led to two world wars in the twentieth century;Japan’s confrontation with another Pacific power – the US – brought World War II to Asia.
In the immediate aftermath of each event, Russia demonstrated its historic
inability
to build harmonious relations with the countries along its periphery; and in the intermediate periods, it acted on its imperial ambitions at these countries’ expense.
China’s
inability
to compete with the US on a global basis does not mean that it could not challenge the US in East Asia, or that war over Taiwan is impossible.
After Israel’s
inability
last summer to achieve a conclusive victory over Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, public pressure forced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government to appoint a commission to examine the causes of this surprising failure.
It was Major's complete
inability
to deal with the unexpected, his capacity to turn small political setbacks into major crises, which incited public contempt for his government.
These pervasive failures appear to be due mostly to governments’
inability
to align their efforts with their country’s resource base and level of development.
From the male point of view, resorting to outside police or judicial intervention would signify an
inability
to fight one’s own battles – an admission of defeat and a symbolic castration.
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