"Mother, I can no longer fulfil your dream that I become an accountant now that I realise capitalism is prey to short-termism, irrationality, malpractice and worse.
And his retirement-age fanbase still thinks he's sexy, even if fame, wealth and trophy wives no longer fulfil him.
If the politicians can no longer fulfil their side of a 150-year-old bargain, say the cynics, voters might just as well stay at home.
The Bank points to a rise in the number of "collapsed states", such as Afghanistan, Cambodia, Liberia, or Somalia, where governments can no longer fulfil even rudimentary functions.
"His business expertise and passion made him stand out from the other interested parties that I have spoken to since I announced that Mr Mammadov could no longer fulfil his obligation to purchase the club".
In two instances, the Cooper-Hohns have filled (at least temporarily) a funding gap caused by partners suffering such deep losses that they could no longer fulfil their pledges to fund projects.
Rowley, who will return to London for Puccini's La bohème in 2015, was herself recruited in the summer after the original Isabelle, German soprano Diana Damrau, could no longer fulfil the role because she was pregnant.
The home secretary said that some chief constables had warned that policing was "on the edge", that cuts would mean that the police would no longer fulfil essential functions and suggestions they could lead to variations in the level of service.
A government that allows a foreign power to kidnap its own citizens on the streets of its capital is advertising to its own people and the world that it can no longer fulfil the most basic function of any state which is to protect its own citizens.
As the SSC tendon can no longer fulfil its stabilizing role, there is passive instability and an anterior sub-dislocation of the humeral head coming in contact with the coracoid process (lightning) (b).
