Sentence examples for proved unable to control from inspiring English sources
Yet the culinary union proved unable to control its members' votes.
Mr. McCain, who is seeking to portray Mr. Obama as too inexperienced to step into the role of commander in chief, was referring to comments by Mr. Obama that the United States must be willing to strike Qaeda targets near Pakistan's northwest border that President Pervez Musharraf has proved unable to control.
Butler proved unable to control opposition, including that of Kildare.
Decolonization of staff and patients by mupirocin proved unable to control a NICU outbreak, according to Lepelletier et al.[ 28].
And it is possible that creating a cadre of quasi-capitalists could unleash forces that the Castros or their successors will prove unable to control.
Meanwhile, Marie-Thérèse had proved unable to hold Louis's affection.
Other similar works of protest followed, creating what the historian Martin Malia calls "a culture of dissidence"—an emerging public opinion in Russia which later repression proved unable to completely control.
Meanwhile, the militants are likely to remain part of the fabric of Pashtun culture in the tribal lands on both sides of the mountainous border, where the governments of both Afghanistan and Pakistan have proved unable to exert control.
But they warned that such a show of force could ultimately backfire if the Colombian armed forces proved unable to establish control or if all-out civil war ensues.
Unless the United States allows the Security Council and the United Nations peacekeeping department to mount a credible operation in Congo, they say, the organization will be in danger of repeating its experience in Somalia and Rwanda, two regional conflicts that it proved unable to bring under control.
At this point initial resistance among the leadership in Chōshū and the imperial court subsided, but over the next year the Tokugawa proved unable to reassert full control over the country as most daimyo began to ignore orders and questions from Edo.
