Sentence examples for unable to formulate a from inspiring English sources

This has led to ideological confusion and made society unable to formulate a positive vision of its future, other than to imagine it as a replay of its "glorious" Soviet past.

He sipped and chewed awkwardly, ashamed in my presence, unable to formulate a reason why she had so frantically wanted to rid herself of his child that she had undergone surgery performed by nobody knew who, some man or woman in a shaded kitchen whose window we could never identify in the city's hundreds of vertical lines of windows.

On Libya, candidates have supported intervention -- albeit with quibbles over the Obama administration's handling of it -- argued against intervention, or seemed unable to formulate a position at all (as was the case with Cain's infamous brain freeze before the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board).

In 1992 psychologist John A. Lucy published two books on the topic, one analyzing the intellectual genealogy of the hypothesis, arguing that previous studies had failed to appreciate the subtleties of Whorf's thinking; they had been unable to formulate a research agenda that would actually test Whorf's claims.

Since a number of things influence patterns of practice behaviour for physicians, researchers have been unable to formulate a theory of physician behaviour change.

This method of recruitment was necessary owing to the fact that we were unable to formulate a complete list of all eligible women at one time and recruit them into the three study groups.

Even if the president did plump for an election, the polls suggest Mr Berlusconi would free himself of Mr Fini only to become a prisoner of the Northern League's leader, Umberto Bossi.Until the deadlock is resolved, Italy will remain a country adrift, its government unable to formulate the policies it needs (most urgently, a strategy for boosting economic competitiveness).

Personally inspiring, he was a terrible administrator and seemed unable to formulate his own ideas or put them into practice successfully.

Hall understood that people wanted cards which conveyed personal feelings they were unable to formulate on their own.

Most of his friends believe that his genius projects far beyond the limits of art; they measure him less as an artist than as an inventor, whose paintings are only illustrations of what he has been unable to formulate in any other way.

By contrast, natural scientists must presuppose that nature is uniform, or they would be unable to formulate the inductive generalisations on which their predictions are based.