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The country’s economy remains
unable
to make optimal use of relatively high energy-export revenues.
This suggests that Russia,
unable
to compete with the world’s fast-developing countries, will have to direct its efforts towards protecting its waning assets.
The EU and NATO are
unable
to expand farther, even though they may want to maintain post-Soviet countries’ interest in membership in order to prevent their possible return to Russia’s orbit.
If Rouhani proves unwilling or
unable
to engineer a change of course, what else might be done?
Unable
to pay the salaries of more than 40,000 public employees in Gaza, it was being slowly strangled by the Israeli and Egyptian authorities.
Despite improved ties in the 1990s, successive Indian governments were
unable
– or unwilling – to risk their political capital by legitimizing the territorial transfer and settling the dispute.
First, Paraguay’s deeply clientelistic political system has been
unable
to accommodate new entrants.
Former President George W. Bush’s restrictions on funding for health programs that used condoms or other forms of contraception meant that Islamic organizations receiving any funding from the US Agency for International Development were
unable
to publish material promoting safe-sex and family planning.
Countries like New Zealand and Peru,
unable
to depend on developed countries for export demand, signed bilateral free-trade agreements with China.
So, rather than hire in a panic at the first sign of recovery, as they did in the past, for fear that they will be
unable
to do so later and lose sales, firms today would rather ensure that the recovery is well established before hiring.
Unable
to treat her patient, and with no access to an ambulance, the health worker faced a choice.
Moreover, they depend on rentier economies that are
unable
to create enough jobs for their young, educated populations.
Nor he is overly worried about the domestic scene, since opponents are deeply divided and thus
unable
to offer an electoral alternative.
Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti is a safe pair of hands for the country’s fiscal policy, yet the government has been
unable
to revive economic growth.
Europe’s agricultural protectionism also harms developing countries, which are
unable
to sell their agricultural products – in many cases, the only goods they can export – in European markets.
If the contagion from Greece intensified, the next-weakest country, probably Portugal, would find itself
unable
to support its banking system or pay its debts.
Indeed, Africa’s SMEs are often
unable
to secure long-term financing.
In 2000, Al Gore, was
unable
to make up his mind about which role he wished to play in his debates with George W. Bush, so he looked shifty and inauthentic, changing from arrogant to patronizing and back again.
But most disappointingly for Uribe, though understandably, the US President was
unable
to bring with him guaranteed congressional support either for Colombia’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, nor funding renewal for the so-called Plan Colombia.
Even if a Palestinian state committed to peaceful coexistence were created, down the road Israel may be
unable
to avoid the fate of Northern Ireland.
If rich countries are
unable
to agree to pay even a modest price for carbon, the talks in Paris will surely be judged a failure.
If any of these normal leaders have a long-term strategy for Europe (can anyone imagine such a thing from EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy or the Union’s foreign-policy supremo, Catherine Ashton?), they are remarkably
unable
to convey it.
Dogs from breeds that were used to hunt or guard sheep often suffer from being
unable
to follow their instincts.
Pushed further away from best-case scenarios, they are
unable
to ignore the global liquidity impact of the Fed’s policies, yet they lack the right policy tools to address it.
Once such a process begins, the politically fragile EU will be
unable
to stop it, at least in the foreseeable future.
Remarkably, Greece’s creditors seem
unable
to appreciate this sound financial principle.
The UN’s reputation suffered in the US because it did not support the Bush administration on the war – and in the 19 other countries because it was
unable
to prevent the war.
Millions of American homes that were purchased with subprime mortgages have been foreclosed in recent years, forcing their owners,
unable
to service their debt, to leave.
With popular resistance to paying for profligate southern Europeans rising in Germany and Holland, governments there might be forced to ask their people whether they want to pay the huge costs implied by their commitments to bail out eurozone members that are unwilling or
unable
to pay.
After her death, his father, a villager who grows vegetables and gets other work when he can, was
unable
to care for him, and placed him in an orphanage.
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