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Once issues of technical safety are resolved, a fundamental objection to reprogenetics is its inherent unfairness to families
unable
to afford it.
Moderate Muslim activists and intellectuals tried valiantly to counter the radicals, but seemed
unable
to gain traction.
With a king or queen
unable
to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.
They suffer when the poor are
unable
to see a path toward betterment.
Moon will have many questions for Trump about US leadership in Asia – questions that Mattis was
unable
to answer.
In a much-cited 1983 article, the great economist Wassily Leontief worried that the pace of modern technological change is so rapid that many workers,
unable
to adjust, will simply become obsolete, like horses after the rise of the automobile.
The electoral process has been
unable
to guarantee decent democratic governance, rein in predatory practices among the political class, or make public officials follow established rules, keep them responsive to citizen preferences, and deter them from channeling public funds into private hands.
But Tsipras squandered Greece’s opportunity, because he and other Syriza leaders were
unable
to see beyond the horizon of their party’s origins in radical opposition activism.
If these two countries, which together are responsible for 38% of annual global CO2 emissions, are
unable
to find common ground on climate action, it is all but guaranteed that humanity will miss its last chance to prevent catastrophic global warming.
They appear
unable
to recognize that the post-Cold War world is not the world they knew when last in power.
They have been
unable
to stop the French programme.
Looking ahead, if Trump and future US leaders continue to engage with other countries through zero-sum transactions rather than cooperative institution-building, the world will be
unable
to muster a joint response to the next period of global market turmoil.
Drunk with victory, and increasingly
unable
to tell the difference between Messianic mythology and objective conditions, Israel and its leaders lost touch with reality.
The country will be
unable
to avoid tyranny unless it is willing to respect the minimal democratic guarantees provided by the constitution, such as a supreme court, an attorney general, a comptroller, and an electoral council appointed with two-thirds of the National Assembly’s support.
Europe and the IMF have been
unable
to reconcile two views of Greece’s debt sustainability, with the two sides’ differences spilling over into the public domain.
But they seem
unable
to act.
A pessimist would say that Europeans are
unable
– or at least unwilling – to rethink their defense policy, because the US ultimately ensures their security through NATO.
Rather, it is a vehicle for corporate lobbyists to achieve what they have been
unable
to persuade legislators to support through normal means.
The TPP is being crafted in utmost secrecy, with even legislators
unable
to see the full text that is being negotiated, though corporate lobbyists have been treated as partners in the drafting process.
Yet, the very speed with which American society has progressed has threatened half of the country, older and mostly white,
unable
and unwilling to live in the present.
I detest the implicit notion behind so much of our commentary that the Arabs or, even worse, the people of Islam, are
unable
to understand what a free society looks like, that they cannot be trusted with something so modern as a polity where religion is in its proper place.
Once too many houses have been built, the existing overhang depresses the market for a very long time, and unemployed construction workers are usually
unable
to find jobs elsewhere.
Over a million Palestinians,
unable
to flee to either Egypt or Israel, have for years been ruled by a military junta that prioritizes the killing of Israelis, across the international border, at all costs.
Politically
unable
to accept or sufficiently address the aspirations of the Tibetan protestors, China’s authorities have focused almost exclusively on the narrow law-and-order issues connected with the violence in March.
As Americans and other Westerners increasingly perceive China as a country
unable
to address its political problems and addicted to growth at all costs, the Chinese government appears to be reverting to a national narrative of victimization that has poisonous roots in China’s perception of historical events such as the 1899-1901 Boxer rebellion.
But if the system of financial intermediation collapses in universal bankruptcy, producers of tradable goods will be
unable
to get financing to expand.
And market forces alone are
unable
to cope with major externalities such as greenhouse-gas emissions, with overwhelming government control over major energy sources such as oil, and with huge numbers of people too poor to constitute a market.
The theory behind this strategy is simple:
Unable
to cut the price of credit further, central banks shift their focus to expanding its quantity.
The left may ultimately win general elections elsewhere if the new Keynesian right proves
unable
to end the crisis.
With drug makers apparently unwilling or
unable
to fund development costs unilaterally, rich and poor countries must collaborate to fill the gap.
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