Sentence examples for was unequal from inspiring English sources

The degree of suffering, they said, was unequal.

The result was unequal treatment of ballots with the same flaws.

In some Protestant churches, he said, the problem was unequal attention and virtual endorsement of particular candidates.

He was unequal to the job but at least he had a sense of what the job could be.

He was unequal to the job — but at least he had a sense of what the job could be.

The writer knew he had to set something down, to bring things to life, to make one scene inevitably follow another, and he was uneasily aware that he was unequal to the task.

On accepting command of the American army, in 1775, he protested that he was unequal to the task and claimed that he had done everything in his power to avoid such a burden falling upon him.

In a brief preface he says that The Yellow Birds began as "an attempt to reckon with one question: what was it like over there?" However, he quickly decided that he was unequal to that task, because "war is only like itself".

Fifty years after the US supreme court passed the landmark decision of Brown v Board of Education, which concluded that the policy of separate schools for white and black children was unequal and unconstitutional, thus outlawing segregation, Milwaukee is the most segregated city for blacks and whites in the country, according to the US census bureau.

Although his homosexual ambitions were idealistic ("He seemed to want it all to be, oh, the classical world, Plato, all that sort of thing: dignified, honorable," a lover of his recalled), the reality was unequal partners and a lot of rough trade.

As soon as the first words of the book were put down on the page, I realised I was unequal to the task of answering it, that if there is any true thing in this world it is that war is only like itself.