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The phrase "administrators were unable to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the limitations or challenges faced by administrators in performing a task or achieving a goal.
Example: "Despite their best efforts, the administrators were unable to resolve the technical issues affecting the system."
Alternatives: "administrators could not" or "administrators were not able to".
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Last month more than 2,000 jobs were lost at JJB alone after administrators were unable to find a buyer for the stricken sportswear chain.
Blockbuster is to shut down all its remaining stores within days after administrators were unable to find a buyer for the rental and DVD chain.
American Indian has never done this and was denied a charter to open a new school last fall in part because school district officials said administrators were "unable to describe" the selection process.
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What began as a cottage industry is now a fully fledged global enterprise, and the administrators are unable to keep up.
"What's the point of celebrating -– or hell, even learning about -– diversity if school administrators are unable to ascertain the difference between Black, African American, and African?
In particular, the TCCP needs to guarantee that the VM is launched on a trusted node and that the system administrator is unable to inspect or tamper with the initial VM state as it traverses the path between the user and the node hosting it.
At UC Riverside, administrators said they were unable to win the stable state funding that an accreditation agency required before giving the proposed medical school its stamp of approval.
Some of the questionnaires were not distributed to physicians (in a few cases hospital administrators admitted they were unable to distribute all of the questionnaires because some workers were on vacation).
Advocates of civil rights for gay men and lesbians immediately praised the move, saying that until now domestic partners of ill people could be turned away, at the whim of a hospital administrator, if hospital officials were unable to determine whom the patient wanted to have as a visitor.
But last week the couple's dream was brought to an abrupt end as the Watkins were forced to tell staff their lender, Royal Bank of Scotland, had called in administrators after the couple decided they were unable to sign up to the terms.
I asked provincial court administrators and Halifax Police but they were unable to say whether he had any charges or convictions outside NS since then.
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