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In the 1980’s, a biomarker contributed to the success of the small but seminal clinical trial of human growth hormone in children who were
unable
to produce it naturally.
In 2017, there were 1.8 million new cases, and some 15.2 million people were
unable
to access HIV treatment.
Therein lies the problem: the decision-making process that has underwritten much of the EU’s construction, while highly effective during the Cold War, when the Union’s institutional and legal foundations were laid, has remained largely intact, leaving Europe
unable
to address its current challenges.
Untethered from the mooring of Cold War-era bipolarity, Europe was swept off its feet and cast adrift in the currents of a globalized world,
unable
to find either its place or direction.
Both Annan and his predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, embarked on ambitious administrative reforms, but were
unable
to address the far greater levels of procedural and regulatory inertia in areas under the authority of the member states.
This has been tried and failed, and Arab states are
unable
or unwilling to constitute one.
The fact that Maliki, despite his incumbency, has been
unable
to secure a second term seven months after the elections attests to the widespread opposition to his continued rule among Iraq’s political class.
But Leterme seems
unable
to keep his own country together, let alone unite Europe.
Second, liberal reformers must continue to lead when it comes to increasingly salient issues – such as the environment, non-discrimination, marriage equality, and drug-policy reform – that politicians of the traditional left and right are
unable
to address.
Though some conservative American voices are already calling for more to be done, no compelling case can be made in the US, Europe, or my own country for sacrificing further blood and treasure in an effort to prop up a regime so demonstrably
unable
and unwilling to help itself hold the country together.
But, confronted with a resolute Russian policy of imperial re-assertion, now also visible in the Caucasus, the US seems
unable
to see how global developments are linked.
If drug companies target diseases that affect only people who are
unable
to pay high prices for drugs, they cannot expect to cover their research costs, let alone make a profit.
After all, Schauble knows that the conditions he proposes would be politically unacceptable, so he says that any country
unable
to meet them “should, as a last resort, exit the monetary union, while being able to remain a member of the EU.”Germany might even exit itself, if it cannot bring its weaker partners to heel.
The economist Albert Hirschman once likened a society with recognizably distinct groups to a multilane highway where people are
unable
to change lanes.
Nothing provoked a more muscular reaction after Mao came to power than the humiliating prospect of feeling
unable
to resist foreign predation.
Many eastern Germans, weaned on authoritarianism and
unable
or unwilling to benefit from the educational and occupational opportunities in a united Germany, are turning to far-right demagogues who blame all their troubles on immigrants and refugees, especially those from Muslim countries.
As a result, the Czech and Polish governments were
unable
to answer fundamental questions about the costs and benefits of the deployment for Polish and Czech national security.
Outside of the large cities, most health-care facilities are
unable
to provide anything more than primary care.
Thus Europe and the United States need to be very careful about making security commitments they are unwilling or
unable
to carry out.
A team that is
unable
to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won’t stand much of a chance.
A country in deep economic crisis,
unable
to pay its civil servants, workers, and military, gets to dictate the policies of the one superpower that exists, the power on whose largesse it depends.
With their traditional fishing grounds
unable
to deliver a decent living, they risk their lives to venture farther and farther from shore.
There is also a feeling that a larger EU might simply be
unable
to function.
Or, to put it another way: the market-clearing wage was
unable
to provide a living income for 38% of working families.
And, finally, Duterte suggested that the ICC had not met the requirement of “complementarity,” which stipulates that the court has jurisdiction only when a state is unwilling or
unable
to prosecute.
But, at $3.3 trillion in December 2015, China’s reserves are still enough to cover more than four times its short-term external debt – well in excess of the widely accepted rule of thumb that a country should still be able to fund all of its short-term foreign liabilities in the event that it is
unable
to borrow in international markets.
Previously, they were more willing to transfer their technology, based on the expectation that Chinese competitors would be
unable
to adapt and master it, anyway.
But reaching this figure will not be possible--even if scaled back--because the government seems
unable
to curb public spending and because the European Commission will not accept new budgetary subterfuges from Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti aimed at evading the constraints imposed by the Euro-zone's Growth and Stability Pact.
This is because Europe has been unable, and Germany unwilling, to clean up the financial mess (including Greece’s unpayable debts) in a fair and forward-looking manner (akin to the 1953 London Agreement on German External Debts, as Germany’s friends have repeatedly reminded it).
When they were brought to Mukti Ashram, our transit rehabilitation center, many were
unable
to walk or even look up at the sun.
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