Sentence examples for supposed inability from inspiring English sources

What about the supposed inability of governments to pay down debt in good times?

• Since the financial crisis struck in 2008, many have bemoaned the supposed inability of bank regulators to coordinate their efforts.

Yet as Cairns writes, girls at his mixed school are a little "nonplussed" at their supposed "inability to thrive because they are sitting next to boys in class".

Rightwing pundits tend to explain Islamic extremism by the supposed inability of Islam to reform itself, together with Muslims' unwillingness to integrate into wider society.

"People say I don't have any jokes," says Stewart Lee in his new show – then sends up his supposed inability to crack a gag.

He generally addresses that subject only by joking it off the table, calling out in greeting, "This guy used to beat up black people for fun!" or referring to blacks' supposed inability to swim: "We went in the creek.

Despite a supposed werewolf inability to reproduce, she learns she's pregnant with Jake's twins.

I suppose my inability to define my Americanism in a single, golden phrase would be a lot easier to take, were it not for the chronic dumbing down of our national identity.

Melnik declared that Tschaikovsky was Anastasia, and supposed that any inability on her part to remember events and her refusal to speak Russian was caused by her impaired physical and psychological state.

In behavioral studies, poor performance on such tasks is supposed to reflect the inability of drug-addicted individuals to learn new healthy behaviors and avoid the negative consequences of their drug consumption.

(One supposes that their inability to retain the correct name of the man who made the so-called dirty pictures is a symbol of their righteousness).