The phrase "an inability to adapt" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's or something's lack of flexibility or capacity to adjust to new conditions or changes.
Example: "The company's failure to innovate was largely due to an inability to adapt to the rapidly changing market."
Alternatives: "a failure to adjust" or "a lack of flexibility."
Experts classify people as mentally retarded if their I.Q.'s are below about 70 and they have an inability to adapt to daily life.
People are classified as mentally retarded if their I.Q.'s are below 70 and they have an inability to adapt to daily life.
Some years more than 1,200 new students arrive and another 600 leave the school district, a result of mortgage defaults, fracturing marriages or an inability to adapt to the challenges of rural living.
But minimizing intractable pain, as do some doctors quoted in the article, by chalking it up as an inability to adapt to the "vicissitudes" of life, surely reveals less of the fibromyalgia patient's temperament than his doctor's.
Poor consumer confidence, high business rates, competition from supermarkets and the internet as well as an inability to adapt have created a perfect storm which has destroyed the weakest members of the retail industry.
The fate of its 8,000 employees is in doubt, as Clintons becomes the latest seemingly ubiquitous high street chain to fall victim to an inability to adapt in difficult economic times.
But the stark difference between our policy in Cuba and our policy everywhere else forces me to believe that our policy is driven by old-school politics, inertia, or a simple inability to adapt to a new reality.
It is in many ways a very Panesar-ish moment, and an illuminating one too for a cricketer who was criticised often for a perceived inability to adapt and change and find other modes of attack.
Management The missed opportunities to thwart the 9/11 plot were also symptoms of a broader inability to adapt the way government manages problems to the new challenges of the twenty-first century.
On the other hand, tightly constrained niches are likely to be unstable over time, and it has been predicted that specialization should be associated with increased extinction rates due to a specialist's inability to adapt [ 23, 27, 28], a notion supported by some empirical analyses [ 29, 30].
Piracy paranoia, from Jack Valenti down, is an excuse for laziness and the inability to adapt to a new business model.
