Sentence examples for a basic inability from inspiring English sources

The Swiss champions had been growing in confidence but it was a bad goal to concede, stemming from a basic inability to hold a defensive line.

Their backgrounds vary from conventional ballet training from an early age to routes into dance through hip‑hop and ballroom dancing and a basic inability to sit still.

But Kapono is hardly alone in the N.B.A. Every year, a handful of forwards and centers go the entire 82-game season without dunking for reasons that range from to restrictive offenses to aging bodies to a basic inability to jump very high.

Indeed, all the euphoria surrounding innovation masks a basic inability to define its potential relevance to the running and functioning of government.

Part of McIlroy's allure has always been a blunt refusal – or basic inability – to flatline, even mid-tournament, a scenario which shows no sign of changing.

Distress is general: out on their ranch, two stolid elderly brothers discover loneliness after the wayward girl they took in leaves for college; various troubles — illness, death, basic inability to cope — afflict the adults in town; and some young children are set adrift from disintegrating homes, with dangerous consequences.

So it's telling that even within the Gmail team, there is a basic, fundamental, deep-seeded inability to put things together in a contextually graceful way that makes sense to actual (non-Googler) users in other words, to deliver a great user experience.

His players' trepidation was regularly betrayed by their inability to complete even a basic, 10-yard pass, too often ceding possession by under- or over-hitting the ball.

Non-naturalism's apparent inability to explain such a basic platitude as global supervenience poses a serious problem (see Mackie 1977, Blackburn 1984, and Blackburn 1988).

Although understanding of moral trespassing appears to be a basic cognitive skill, for some people, an inability to apologize is evidence of a deeper issue.

Education is a basic human right and it should not be denied because of inability to pay.