Sentence examples for unable to devise a from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Baucus has deferred action because he has been unable to devise a drug benefit acceptable to Democrats on the committee, much less to the Republicans.

Despite the importance of balancing this burgeoning trade with Mr. De Gucht's forceful words, the European Union has so far been unable to devise a long-term strategy for China or agree on the terms in which it conducts business and promotes its values.

Yet for all his experience in government and his worldly common sense, Nye proves in his analyses how mired we all are in the mud of nationalism, unable to devise a genuine transnational policy that would let us begin to function as citizens of the world.

An Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement has eluded all previous U.S. administrations not because they were unable to devise a proper formula for its achievement; everyone has known for some time now the essential features of that formula, which were proposed by President Clinton in early 2000.

To date, lower courts have been unable to devise a test that satisfies all three of these conditions.

After well over a year of trying, Pratt has been unable to devise a permanent fix for the PW4000 engine, used on the Boeing 767 and the Airbus A330 and A310, to correct a serious surge problem.

The agency has taken action on only eight chemicals, however, in part because the law's mandate is ambiguous and agency officials have been unable to devise an effective regulatory approach.

But despite a series of adjustments in his original plan, Raffles was unable to devise an effective means of applying his theories before the return of Java to Dutch hands as part of the general settlement following the defeat of Napoleon.

Researchers have been unable to devise an effective preventive vaccine for viruses with the so-called H5N1 exteriors found in the 1997 and current viruses, but some of the latest antiviral drugs will treat them if administered early enough, Dr. Peiris said.

This worked much better, but still after much work, we were still unable to devise any heuristics that deduced movement in an accurate enough fashion for it to be intuitive.

He was unable to devise any viable plans for completion of the military objectives.