Sentence examples for unable to acquire a from inspiring English sources

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".

Josefson was one of the Devils' top three centers and, if Lou Lamoriello is unable to acquire a player in a trade or through waivers, the Devils do not have the depth to replace him.

All three countries were sceptical that Iran will be unable to acquire a nuclear weapon, despite Barack Obama's assertion that "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off".

The song came to him shortly before bed, but he was unable to acquire a pencil and paper to write down his ideas, as there was a child asleep in the room and he could not turn on the lights.

For instance, proteins unable to acquire a stable fold are first retained in the ER by the folding quality control machinery to be next retrotranslocated to the cytosol for proteasomal degradation [1].

The protein translated from TPO5 is also unable to acquire a proper three dimensional configuration and reach the cell surface.

In one of English's academic papers, she mentions the story of a developer who built an amphibious house in New Orleans, then found himself unable to acquire an N.F.I.P. policy; the building remained unsold until he replaced the amphibious foundation with a traditional one.

(Lenneberg, 1957 142-55; see Curtiss 1977 for the (in famous case of Genie, a modern-day 'wild child' from suburban Los Angeles, who was unable to acquire any but the most rudimentary grammatical competence after a miserable and wordless childhood spent locked alone in a room, tied to her potty chair or bed).

In contrast, the ATNx3 rats may have been unable to acquire such a complex spatial representation and, instead, identified the correct corner as being at a particular end of the striped wall.

There will also be concern that the intelligence agencies were unable to acquire information of a detailed plot that appears to have required several people to carry out and perhaps a sizable quantity of explosives.

Homer is distraught when he is unable to acquire tickets for an upcoming football game involving the Springfield Atoms.