Sentence examples for unable to react to from inspiring English sources

She discovered a "traditional Soviet system" geared up for war and unable to react to what had happened.

Did we kill off our competitors, or were the others just poorly adapted and unable to react to the extreme climatic fluctuations that then beset the planet?

Confused and terrified, Lieutenant Stitt froze, unable to react to orders or even get out of her vehicle when the fighting was over.

Not only had I been unable to react to the sudden disappearance of the fly from the top of the water, I couldn't even follow the drift when it didn't disappear.

Mr. Ozzie wrote about a company in thrall to its past success, troubled by internal complexity and unable to react to fast-moving competitors, particularly in a world dominated by new mobile devices and services.

"The bureaucrats created a very centralized system that has become out of date, and unable to react to the world's changes," Kazuhiro Haraguchi, the minister of internal affairs, said in an interview.

I was speechless, unable to react at all.

Nonetheless, with some forethought, combinations can be found that have endoergic ground-state reactions and are therefore unable to react at low temperature.

When asked how the site is likely to react to being unable to access that data Mr Fertik says it's not clear.

Verona's police escort was unable to react in time to prevent a hail of stones from shattering several windows.

This also has echoes from former times, when China was unable to react effectively to the western challenge, backed, as it was, by superior arms.