"If you listen to what the Iranians have said publicly and privately over the past week," one senior administration official said Sunday, "it's evident that they simply cannot bring themselves to do the deal".
"It can be interpreted by the governed not so much as the diligent work of government (but) as a paralysed government that because of its cultural and religious divisions simply cannot bring itself to discharge its duties.
"For the environment ministry, for me, it is a deal-breaker because you simply cannot bring this into climate change discourse and disguise unilateral trade measures under climate change," Ms. Natarajan said.
"For the environment ministry, for me, it is a deal-breaker because you simply cannot bring this into climate change discourse and disguise unilateral trade measures under climate change," she said.
He simply cannot bring himself to take seriously the whims and currents of the external world.
Whether anxious or, as the last panel implies, mostly indecisive, the hippo simply cannot bring herself to join in.
However, this would mean engaging the United States without malice, which many in the Arab world simply cannot bring themselves to do.
He needs their approval to secure his appointment as consul, a reward for winning a war against the Volscians, but he simply cannot bring himself to show the necessary humility.
This is most notably true of Mr. Mbeki, who simply cannot bring himself and his government to act as a major continental power in response to a renegade neighbor.
Though he works in a fair degree of suspense -- as well as surprising quantities of gore -- the plot is repeatedly interrupted by rambles through local history and mores that sometimes feel luxuriantly digressive and sometimes merely wearying, as if Malone simply cannot bring himself to shut off the narrative faucet.
