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"unable to acquire" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in a sentence to express that one cannot attain a particular object, service, ability, etc. For example, "Due to the current financial climate, we are unable to acquire the new equipment we need."
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Without such assistance, control agents are unable to acquire the local knowledge necessary to locate and prosecute deviants.
A Prudential Securities analyst, Carol Coale, downgraded Energy Partners, saying it may be unable to acquire assets needed for growth.
The big estates, however, remained untouched, and most peasants were unable to acquire enough land to be self-supporting.
Southwest said it had been unable to acquire slots at Reagan National and had only eight round-trips from LaGuardia.
With limited availability of inexpensive prostheses in Somalia, she was unable to acquire a prosthetic when she had had her surgery two months prior.
Although the DRVIA7 lineage was unable to acquire broad neutralization, longitudinal analysis revealed a repertoire-encoded VRC01 light-chain CDR3 signature and VRC01-like neutralizing heavy-chain precursors that rapidly matured within 2 years.
However, plugging a computer into a previously-unused port on the switch once it is in this moribund state leaves the new machine unable to acquire a DHCP address.
16 of these models were made between 1965 and 1983 and were acquired directly from the architects while 2 replicate models Klotz commissioned from local model makers because he was unable to acquire the originals.
The hotel is being built on this odd-shaped lot because it has to encompass three low-rise buildings on the corner of Nassau Street and Maiden Lane that the developer, the McSam Hotel Group, was unable to acquire.
Yet the Chinese had been unable to acquire a steady supply, and had been feeding their animals milk, eggs, and a high-protein, low-fibre paste they called "panda bread".
In 1969, he complained: Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
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