Sentence examples for but unable to effect from inspiring English sources

Hopeful of connection, but unable to effect it, they stalk one another to a soundtrack of schmaltzy 1930s songs.

According to Brown, that sense of confinement creates an emotional rut, where we are stuck hoping for change but feeling unable to effect that change.

Receptors that lack the LDL-A domain were found to bind relaxin, but were unable to effect cAMP accumulation [ 46].

But the police are unable to effect refunds for people who were scammed by the cold callers, though they do class the crime as "obtaining money by deception" – in other words, fraud.

And, like Beckett's characters, Hofmann's are caught in stasis, unable to effect change.

Evidently wishing to be the actual head of the government, Churchill alienated most of his colleagues; unable to effect a reconciliation, Salisbury waited for Churchill to defeat himself.

Her caution regarding Mrs. Pascal-Trouillot appeared to reflect reports that the new President of Haiti has been unable to effect positive change there.

Although mounted elements of the Crusader army made repeated charges against the Muslim lines, they were unable to effect any significant breakthrough.

Baraka points up the black man's low status in American society but also stresses that he is victimized and enslaved by his own hatred and is thus unable to effect social change.

Unable to effect a landing in England, the Directory, on Bonaparte's request, decided to threaten the British in India by occupying Egypt.

And because we were unable to effect a reconciliatory peace, those threads and behaviors bedevil us still.