Sentence examples for inability at from inspiring English sources

In fact, the essay's subject was Wurtzel's inability, at age 44, to stop living as if she were 24.

His failure to call the Coast Guard bewildered them, as did his inability, at the moment of rescue, to express the empathy he'd made his clients feel for forty years.

As a reflection of Myerson's inability at the time of composition to write about the past without the present jumping in, the double time-structure creates powerful cross-echoes.

You use it to intimidate those you love … I can't lay it all at my pop's feet; plenty of it is my own weakness and inability at this late date to put it all away".

"What is causing this is the inability, at least to this date, of our nation's leaders — in the House and White House — to make good decisions, timely decisions, that put our country first," said Representative Scott Rigell, Republican of Virginia.

The Obama administration's inability, at least for now, to influence China, Russia and countries in Latin America that may accept Mr. Snowden for asylum, like Ecuador, brought home the limits of American power around the world.

But a 3-0 defeat at Hannover, coupled with Dortmund's surprising inability to at least draw at home to Hoffe saw them drop to 17th – and straight back down to the second division.

Frustrated at their inability to help at the trade center, they expressed an eagerness to help locally.

Size still has some advantages, but the major disadvantage is the inability to move at the velocity at which the industry is developing.

It is the inability to laugh at times, sleep at times, and discuss [our] problem in a relaxed environment" (mother aged 40, child aged 18).

Warren later told friends that they seemed furious at his inability to recall meetings at Dewey & LeBoeuf that had occurred nearly five years earlier.