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Most of those who took the leaflets did not know that their eggs came from hens kept in cages so small that even one bird – the cages normally housed four – would be
unable
to fully stretch and flap her wings.
Women who have been scarred or disfigured from diseases such as FGS and lymphatic filariasis are often stigmatized to the point that they are
unable
to marry or are abandoned by their spouses.
The main weakness of Latin America’s economies is that they will be
unable
to generate the type of rapid and sustained growth required to create jobs and reduce inequality and poverty.
If we do not, we ordinary Indians will find ourselves--like the ordinary citizens of Hitler's Germany -
unable
to look our children in the eye because of our shame of what we allowed to happen.
But he has made no headway at all with the regime that rules his homeland, and he has been
unable
to prevent Tibet’s inexorable transformation into a Chinese province.
In fact, the consequences for people living without electricity can be dire: they may be deprived of adequate health care, or be
unable
to store fresh food.
Their leaders seem
unable
to come to grips with the eurozone’s debt crisis.
The first lesson is that, despite the limited overall volume of subprime loans, the subprime crisis could blow up into the biggest financial crisis in living memory, because an overstretched financial system was
unable
to cope with even limited losses.
When, say, public-procurement fraud is rampant, or royalties for natural resources are stolen at the source, or the private sector is monopolized by a narrow network of cronies, populations are
unable
to realize their potential.
Whatever one says or does, they may be
unable
to see themselves as part of a larger sovereign people.
Even if some would-be parents are willing to break the law, the vast majority will be deterred by the penalties, including the risk that they will not be allowed to keep the baby or that they will be
unable
to obtain an exit visa for it.
If our tacit sense of the human condition can block our understanding of others, and if it is so fundamental to who we are that we cannot merely wish it away, are we utterly imprisoned in our own outlooks,
unable
to know others?
That is a promise that Western countries will be
unable
to provide.
Obama so far seems
unable
to break this fiscal logjam.
The big banks play on this fear, arguing that financial reform will cause them to become unprofitable and make them
unable
to lend, or that there will be some other dire unintended consequence.
As a result, an estimated 617 million school-age children are
unable
to read at grade level.
They will be unwilling or
unable
to provide the kind of leadership that sustained multilateralism in the decades that followed World War II.
The Weimar Republic had incurred huge deficits, owing in part to meet reparations payments mandated by the Treaty of Versailles, but it was
unable
to borrow, so the central bank printed money.
The ECB’s inflationary bias will most likely be dropped, as the effect of the financial crisis and the US slowdown sends Europe’s economy into a spin that even the ever-optimistic ECB will be
unable
to deny.
Images of vulnerable, desolate refugee children – likely to be displaced for a decade or more – have become so common that the world seems
unable
to comprehend what it is seeing.
Given the opacity of banks’ exposures, creditors would be
unable
to discriminate between the solvent and the insolvent (as was the case in September 2008).
Overall, the private sector in Europe and America has been
unable
to create many good jobs since the beginning of the current century.
The capture of the camp leaves 18,000 refugees at risk of slaughter,
unable
to access food, water, and vital services.
The international community has been
unable
– and, to some extent, unwilling – to stop the war or end Syria’s suffering.
It can be difficult for ordinary citizens to feel hopeful when governments and international institutions have been
unable
to stop the war and refuse to protect refugees.
Civil-society and professional groups have been
unable
to respond in a way that maintains organic social cohesion, owing to a lack of resources, weak capacity, or both.
Central banks have been handed the job of keeping economies afloat, but most of the money that they print remains stuck in the banking system,
unable
to arrest stagnating consumption and falling investment.
Moreover, the eurozone itself is a mini-gold standard, with heavily indebted members
unable
to devalue their currencies, because they have no currencies to devalue.
Consumed with their test of wills, they are
unable
to make well-informed and nuanced decisions in their dealings with outsiders.
The US will remain the most powerful country in 2020, but, paradoxically, the strongest state since the days of Rome will be
unable
to protect its citizens acting alone.
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