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Ukraine followed, but, owing to internal discord, Kremlin pressure, and the European Union’s indifference, the Orange Revolution was
unable
to deliver on the promise of democracy.
Under the feeble dynastic leadership of Sonia Gandhi (the widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Nehru’s grandson and the son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi) and her son Rahul, Congress now seems
unable
even to retain seats in its historic bastions, such as Uttar Pradesh.
After all, its practitioners failed to anticipate the calamity, and many appeared
unable
to say anything useful when the time came to formulate a response.
After all, the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Ronald Reagan’s military build-up in the 1980’s, with which communism was
unable
to compete, but because the Soviet command economy had already become obsolete in the 1970’s.
Many younger people who have entered the labor force in recent years have been
unable
to find a job corresponding to their skills and are bound to pay a price for it throughout their careers.
With small farmers
unable
to provide sufficient surpluses, agricultural production will become increasingly consolidated and mechanized, raising fossil-fuel consumption, which will have to be offset by the introduction of more efficient technologies.
And, third, laws intended to protect private information should be reevaluated to ensure that IT companies are
unable
to profit from exploiting and manipulating it.
This has revived concerns that governments may be
unable
to backstop a too-big-to-save financial system.
Moreover, it has proven
unable
to speed the pace of privatization (which would add to government revenue), partly due to barriers thrown up by India's bureaucracy.
Indeed, one of the most fascinating proposals to this effect came at the beginning of World War I, when the Russian Empire found that its limited capacity to borrow on international capital markets and its low foreign-currency reserves left it
unable
to create an effective military force.
Everyone knows that Greece will be
unable
to work its way out of crisis without massive debt relief.
The European financial crisis is really a political crisis, because EU leaders are
unable
to decide on the necessary measures.
Senior positions – including two on the indispensible three-member independent election commission – stand vacant, leaving vital institutions
unable
to function effectively.
Rather than proceeding in an orderly manner, today's global changes are being driven by the disorderly forces of de-leveraging emanating from a Europe in deep financial crisis and an America seemingly
unable
to restore sustained high rates of GDP growth and job creation.
Have America’s recent foreign wars so scarred its leaders that they are
unable
to defend the world order that their predecessors created and for which many Americans have died?
But the EU seems to lack effective mechanisms for resolving this problem, despite being legally, politically, and indeed morally
unable
to permit it to persist.
State authorities said they were prompted to take decisive action by a spate of suicides by borrowers who were
unable
to pay their debts.
In addition, too many borrowers had taken multiple loans from different sources and were
unable
to repay them.
But when a debtor is
unable
to pay, nothing is gained by forcing payment.
Indeed, like Clinton before him, Obama has been
unable
to get Republican senators like Susan Collins to vote for her own campaign-finance policies, McCain to vote for his own climate-change policy, and – most laughably – Romney to support his own health-care plan.
Likewise, he has been
unable
to get Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost-control proposals.
But military dominance alone is
unable
to confer authority, as the Afghan quagmire reminds us every day.
Volatility itself is costly, leaving economies
unable
to respond effectively to price signals.
Such a state cannot protect those
unable
to withstand competition, and cannot provide for their needs.
Raising the profile of “final status” issues at a time when the two sides have shown themselves
unable
to face up to the past, or work together in the present, is not a recipe for progress.
Yet, despite all that spending, Afghanistan will be
unable
to stand on its own feet for decades to come.
The risk is that the phenomenon leads to widespread disruptions, as increasingly difficult national policy challenges stoke regional tensions and the multilateral system proves
unable
to reconcile imbalances safely.
They are
unable
to participate freely in their societies or contribute to their countries’ economic development.
If they don’t, Uber will become an acquisition target or, worse, a zombie company,
unable
to compete with more vital competitors that learn from it what not to do.
Without profits, MFIs are
unable
to invest in the talent and product development needed to serve people for the long term.
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