Sentence examples for inability to impose from inspiring English sources

This was glaring proof of Madrid's inability to impose its will.

Other than that, Mr Abe showed an inability to impose discipline upon a cabinet of the corrupt and incompetent.

The home side's captain, John Terry, still admitted frustration at the team's inability to impose themselves earlier on the tie.

But tension over the country's inability to impose tough structural changes has stalled the talks, and no decision is expected this week.

At worst, Mr Abe's choice of cabinet and his inability to impose discipline on it suggests he is not up to steering the ship of state.A vote, then, against Mr Abe, but not necessarily one for the DPJ.

But for a growing number of Americans the superpower's inability to impose its will on Mesopotamia is symptomatic of a deeper malaise.Nearly six years after September 11th, nervousness about the state of America's "hard power" is growing (see article).

This situation is abetted by many factors, including long-standing armed conflict, the inability of government to impose the rule of law, massive ignorance and disrespect for human rights values and principles, and deeply-rooted traditions that reproduce violence, women's oppression, and perverted concepts of morality and honour.

But the US-British invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq revealed the inability of the global behemoth to impose its will on subject peoples prepared to fight back.

Wales should have beaten South Africa last weekend and they pushed Australia the week before but recent autumn series have shown the inability of a changed side to impose itself on reputedly inferior opposition.

The absence of those groups signalled the military and intelligence's ability to safeguard the fundamentals of their strategic support of militant groups and the inability of the civilian government to impose its will.

The inability of rulers from beyond the Alps to impose their authority upon it was clearly and finally demonstrated by the expedition (1310 13) of Henry of Luxembourg, crowned as Emperor Henry VII.