Sentence examples for was unable for from inspiring English sources

BEHIND THE NEWS The fighting was so fierce that NATO sent rescue teams, and the Red Cross was unable for days to reach the battlefield in Laghman Province.

Even with accepting and encouraging parents, Joseph Schwartz was unable for years to acknowledge his gay identity, which resulted in serious academic, social and psychological problems.

After his latest partner left in September, he was unable for five months to schedule any time off until another local doctor volunteered to cover for him.

Two jurors nearly came to blows yesterday as a Brooklyn jury was unable for a third day to decide whether a former jail guard should be sentenced to death for killing three people, a court officer told the judge.

Rubio didn't choke, or not the way he did in the debate before the New Hampshire primary, when he was unable, for an interval, to do anything but repeat himself.

During the period 1564 68, Catherine was unable, for complex reasons, to withstand the cardinal Lorraine, statesman of the Guises, who largely provoked the second and third civil wars.

Next, unprompted, he was back to saying Iraqis had been unable for years to rid themselves of the tyrant.

The polymer functionalized with azophenol units is unable for the detection of cyanide, due to the low pKa value verified for its chromogenic units.

There was a serious danger eurozone leaders would be unable for political reasons to take the economic steps necessary to resolve the two-year-old crisis.

These organisations appear to be exploiting vulnerable people who are unable, for one reason or another, to deal with the hassle of constantly renegotiating terms," says her son.

Pro-Israel students said they made the video because they had been unable for several years to get administrators to take their complaints seriously.