Sentence examples for were unable to know from inspiring English sources
Yahoo's response: they were unable to know which site(s) the signups were coming from.
If the intellect were unable to know singulars, it would be impossible for it to distinguish what is universal from what is singular.
In the 2011 Southwest America blackout, changes in power flow and voltage magnitude as a result of H NG line tripping were noticed by affected power companies but many control centers were unable to know in real time the causes and impacts of these changes because of not having adequate situational awareness of their neighboring systems.
Due to the nature of the study design, we were unable to know the duration of latent tuberculosis infection for each household contact.
Since the clinicians were unable to know any details about the patients nor their disease severity before the recruitment, the selection was purely based on the blood culture finding.
As we shall see, externalism can suggest that Descartes is unable to know that his own thought represents, say, elm trees (vs. beech trees) without knowing that it is elms (and not beeches) that the thought is connected to in the world.
"We are unable to know the degree to which there might be some breach of national security," Mr. Baucus said.
Solving it would not overcome the disadvantage of being unable to know why your opponent is acting as he is.
We're unable to know whether Britain's Reapers carried out airstrikes at the 61 locations where civilian deaths have so far been alleged for Iraq alone.
And that really poses a perpetual danger, because they could be having outbreaks there that we simply are unable to know about.
When the Supreme Court asserted in its 1962 decision in Gallegos v. Colorado that "a 14-year-old boy, no matter how sophisticated... is not equal to the police in knowledge and understanding... and is unable to know how to protect his own interests or how to get the benefits of his constitutional rights," there may have been a general consensus that this was true.
