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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abrupt inability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden or unexpected lack of ability to do something.
Example: "The team faced an abrupt inability to meet the project deadline due to unforeseen circumstances."
Alternatives: "sudden incapacity" or "unexpected inability".
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For another business, the greatest cyber risk could be the abrupt inability to bill customers, or perhaps, in the case of a bank, a shutdown that prevents customers from getting paid.
However, it's very unlikely that the U.S. would ever suffer the sort of abrupt inability to sell its bonds that triggered a fiscal crisis in other countries.
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When the force field is activated, the subject's ability to track the moving target is initially disrupted, probably due to an inability to predict abrupt changes in the direction of the perturbing force.
The clip above shows a montage of "highlights," filled with abrupt cuts, throwing to nobody, unintentionally live microphones, inability to know/care if it was midnight and pretty much every other error that could have made it live on the air.
As a result, some observers perceived that the correction of the external imbalances was bound to be very difficult and potentially abrupt, especially given the gloomy growth forecasts and the inability to appeal to exchange-rate devaluations as an adjustment mechanism.
Bell's palsy is the abrupt paralysis of the facial nerve, resulting in an inability to control facial muscles on the affected side.
Abrupt and abrasive, he left office following a scandal that turned on his inability to get on with Luxembourg's intelligence services.
An improved series representation of vertical cable displacement is proposed, which allows to overcome the inability of the traditional Galerkin method to reproduce the kinks and abrupt changes of cable configuration at the interface with the moving sub-systems.
In his previous movie, "Moulin Rouge!," his inability to stage anything clearly was disguised by spasmodic camera movements and abrupt cutting; the fragments were glued together to form a bumpy continuity of sorts.
He got the unpopularity part right, a fact that was clear both in the inability of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to win re-election last fall in Germany, and in yesterday's abrupt surrender by the French president, Jacques Chirac, as he revoked a law his government had put into effect aimed at making it easier to hire and fire workers under 26.
Five days after the abrupt ending to the Yankees' season, Manager Joe Girardi addressed reporters at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday and discussed the team's inability to get past the first round of the playoffs and what next year might hold.
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