I have been part of a group of academics in Cambridge and London who were frustrated by commercial publishers' inability to adopt an open access model.
The vast majority of respondents (86percentt) attributed their inability to adopt a proposed innovation to a lack of funding.
Other issues of concern to lesbians include child rearing (ranging from the inability to adopt a partner's offspring to laws barring same-sex adoption), the sharing of medical health benefits with a partner, the right to make health decisions for a partner, taxes, inheritance, and so on.
Her inability to adopt a more flexible interpersonal style contributed to an interpersonal environment in which she experienced isolation and possible rejection from other people, especially her children and grandchildren.
Several difficulties, including a dearth of consistently identifiable landmarks, inter-subject variability, and imprecise or indeterminate structural-functional relationships, have led to the community's inability to adopt a standard parcellation protocol.
For example, it is possible that participation in additional CME activities was merely a marker of willingness to engage in the overall intervention, while the decision not to participate may have reflected a general reluctance, unwillingness or inability to adopt these dental preventive procedures.
It must be said that I really wasn't a very good rep - take, for example, my inability to adopt the appropriate face when somebody complained about the Germans, even though, and this was the killer, there weren't any.
That system, which political analysts say makes it difficult to form a majority and enact legislation, has been blamed largely for the legislature's inability to adopt austerity measures proposed by Cardoso to speed recovery from the current economic crisis.
The Americans — among them the economists Lawrence H. Summers and Paul Krugman — were glum about their country's economic stagnation and its political inability to adopt policies that could end it.
The inability to adopt is one of many legal and financial inequalities the Sheltons face because their state and the federal government do not recognize their union, which they affirmed in a ceremony almost 11 years ago.
