Sentence examples for unable to act on from inspiring English sources

Once again the Republicans have found themselves in the peculiar position of possessing total control of the elected branches of the federal government, yet unable to act on one of their longstanding dreams: not just slowly destroying Medicaid, a federal program that guarantees healthcare to millions of poorer people, but also forcing people to rely upon the free market for their healthcare.

In the past year, our political and business leaders have been exposed as both out of touch, unable to act on major issues like global warming and drug addiction, and, too often, acting badly if not outright bizarrely in support of their own self interests.

Drugged by Vautrin, he is nevertheless unable to act on his knowledge.

It turns out that he doesn't lack self-awareness, and it's nearly tragic that he's unable to act on it.

He would understand that that sort of behavior was inappropriate, but he would nonetheless find himself unable to act on that.

HHS' ability to act may be limited without Congressional involvement, and Congress has thus far been unable to act on this issue.

The Chinese claims extend well into the continental shelves of Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Taiwan and Indonesia, which has ticked off each of those countries; but they've been unable to act collectively on the issue, and China has been effective at manoeuvring them into dealing bilaterally rather than as a group.

Dendrimers of mannose-based inhibitors were most often unable to act multivalently on E. coli, however the monovalent moiety of the best inhibitors among those dendrimers contain structures whose interactions can closely mimic those of oligomannose-3, such as glycocluster 4 in the recent study by Touaibia [61].

The message is equally emphatic: "if Congress is unable to act in a timely fashion" on immigration, "I will send up a bill based on my proposal and insist that they vote on it right away".

He lost his place as soon as they began to come down the hill at Tattenham Corner and it appeared that he was unable to act at all down the hill on the firm ground.

Absent their good-faith sacrifice of the liberty to act on their private judgments regarding what justice requires, the free-rider would likely be unable to act as he does (Wellman 2005, pp. 44 45).