Sentence examples for been unable to forge from inspiring English sources

But because they have been unable to forge broad agreement about what these abstract principles mean in practice, they've made little progress.

Left largely to her own devices, Ms. Weingarten has been unable to forge agreement among municipal unions on how to respond to Mr. Bloomberg's call for concessions.

Kumaratunga has also been unable to forge a consensus with the rival U.N.P. for the new constitution and did not have the votes to get it adopted in Parliament without opposition support.

Nine days after inconclusive elections, the leaders announced they had been unable to forge the necessary consensus to create a coalition during emergency talks on Tuesday led by the president, Karolos Papoulias.

It has so far been unable to forge a lasting agreement around Nagorno-Karabakh; the boundary between areas controlled by Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces is now perhaps Europe's most militarized fault-line.

Frustrated that he has been unable to forge an agreement with Congressional Republicans to prevent automatic budget cuts that take effect on Friday, Mr. Obama issued a mixed science fiction metaphor, saying he could not "somehow do a Jedi mind meld with these folks and convince them to do what's right".

But when those political parties were unable to forge a national unity government, that picture changed.

While conceding some damage, proponents insist that if May is unable to forge a consensus, the looming prospect of a no-deal Brexit could focus minds.

But while the leaders are unable to forge the big partition, and can tolerate the status quo, the people increasingly can't.

Qatar's foreign minister, Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, left the Gaza Strip after he was unable to forge an agreement between the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, on a unity government.

He said Mr. Topolanek's comments Wednesday that President Obama's emergency stimulus package was a "way to hell" showed that he was a gaffe-prone leader, who was unable to forge consensus either at home or abroad.