Sentence examples for not only unable from inspiring English sources

A year later, France was not only unable to stop the war, but it paid a big price in Europe.

At times, such blanket regulations are not only unable to meet practical needs at local levels, but they may conflict with local institutional logics, thereby creating new challenges.

This is done ad hoc for each experiment; the unsystematic modification is, however, commonly not only unable to resolve all existing proximities, but may introduce secondary undesired proximities.

The future of the UK may see monolingual Brits not only unable to eavesdrop on the tube, but increasingly locked out of international conversations, negotiations and business opportunities.

These were not only unable to prevent the fall of Kunduz, but their attempt to retake the town a day later failed dismally.

Leaders in Louisiana and New Orleans, though, were so overwhelmed by the scale of the storm that they were not only unable to manage the crisis, but they were not always exactly sure what they needed.

To be entitled to disability benefits under the Social Security Act a person must not only be unable to perform his former work but must also be unable, considering his age, education, and work experience, to perform any other kind of gainful work that exists in the national economy.

"Student debt like that leads to college graduates not only being unable to buy homes, but students in debt are sometimes unable to pay rent or even buy groceries," Rothacher said.

This reform effort is the struggle upon which history will judge President Obama's health care initiatives, for, if we fail, America will not only be unable to afford the expanded coverage of the new health care law, but we will also be unable to continue Medicare or Medicaid as we know them.

Security guards not only were unable to prevent the drug use, the security director said, but showed up to work smelling of alcohol themselves at times.

This means that those coming from Sunset Park in southern Brooklyn on weekends will not only be unable to take a subway to Grand Street, but they will also find that taking a subway anywhere near there will take them much longer.