Sentence examples for incapable of basic from inspiring English sources

Two women who spent years doing little but talking to each other are now incapable of basic conversation.

From these books it derives its belief in original sin, conceived of as a hereditary and universal moral defect of human beings that makes them incapable of achieving their destiny and even incapable of basic decency.

Was Rupert Murdoch so skilled at a kind of uber-power game that he was attempting to vaporise each inappropriate inquiry into his company; or were we watching a shell-shocked man so incapable of basic discourse that it almost elicited a strange kind of pity?

They are creative, artistic, and resourceful, but most are high school or home school drop-outs incapable of basic reading comprehension.

Science education in the United States is so poor that most citizens are incapable of understanding basic scientific theories like evolution.

"The facts have shown us that the current system is incapable of providing basic safety to the people of Chicago," she continued.

There were those aspects of old trauma he was unwittingly reinflicting on himself, contriving to be abandoned by wives, disillusioned by mentors, seemingly incapable of taking basic care of himself.

This suggests any or all of the following: he didn't know how fast cars go; he didn't know how fast people walk; he was incapable of even basic arithmetic; or, he didn't even know people could walk.

If Haiti has gone from a "troubled democracy" to a "nondemocracy," as you claim in "No Help to Democracy in Haiti" (editorial, Feb. 3), then it is because the institutions that are fundamental to any democracy -- its law enforcement and courts -- are in a state of collapse, rendering them incapable of providing basic security and justice.

DAKAR, Senegal — The radical Islamists who control northern Mali appear incapable of managing basic services — including electricity, water and schools — and in some cases are asking for the return of state functionaries to run them, according to a delegation that went to the region for talks recently.

"Council tax has nearly doubled in the last 10 years so taxpayers are shocked when local governments seem incapable of providing basic services".