Inability Sentence Examples

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  • Maybe his inability to talk makes you feel unsure.

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  • Alliances with various land powers, and an inability to understand the true relations which alone could unite the league, combined to alienate the allies, who could discover no reason for the expenditure of their contributions on protecting Sparta or Corinth against Thebes.

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  • If he was self-conscious about his inability to talk, he gave no indication.

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  • In the slighter forms no inconvenience may result; but in higher degrees prolonged work is apt to give rise to aching and watering of the eyes, headache, inability to read or sew for any length of time, and even to double vision and internal strabismus.

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  • In this work, which is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of algebra, Cardan shows that he was familiar with both real positive and negative roots of equations whether rational or irrational, but of imaginary roots he was quite ignorant, and he admits his inability to resolve the so-called lation of Arabic manuscripts.

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  • The census of agriculture is also liable to a wide margin of error, owing to defects in farm accounts and the inability of many farmers to state the amount or the value even of the leading crops.

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  • Maybe his inability to talk was more a case of unwillingness to talk.

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  • First it had been his inability to have children; then money; and finally, a family.

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  • It further expressed its inability to believe that the Powers wished to impose " a treaty concluded unknown to it by third parties, and whose clauses have never been communicated to it."

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  • Two-fifths of the land belongs to the state, and two-fifths more to the various communes; the remaining fifth is minutely subdivided among a large number of small proprietors, many of whom have been expropriated from inability to pay the taxes, which, considering the low value of the land, are too heavy; while the state is unable to let a large proportion of its lands.

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  • During the reign of Alexander, who was too poor to maintain any adequate standing army in Lithuania, the Muscovites and Tatars ravaged the whole country at will, and were prevented from conquering it altogether only by their inability to capture the chief fortresses.

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  • In 1291 he attempted to secure the election of his son Albert as German king; but the princes refused on the pretext of their inability to support two kings, but perhaps because they feared the increasing power of the Habsburgs.

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  • The divergence of policy of that state from that pursued by the other states was caused by the inability of the government to construct lines, when the extension of the railway system was urgently needed in the interests of settlement.

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  • Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to vaccine poisoning before he was five (the poison permanently arresting the growth and development of his legs), he was an eager student, and in 1814 he graduated at the College of South Carolina with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.

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  • Herodotus, who ranks Libya as one of the chief divisions of the world, separating it from Asia, repudiates as fables the ordinary explanations assigned to the names Europe and Asia, but confesses his inability to say whence they came.

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  • An order in council was enacted in 1899 providing that no Maltese (except students of theology) should thenceforth suffer any detriment through inability to pass examinations in Italian, in either the schools or university, but the fraction of the Maltese who claim to speak Italian (13.24%) still command sufficient influence to hamper the full enjoyment of this emancipation by the majority.

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  • The program is not free, but rarely is anyone turned away for inability to pay.

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  • Insomnia is an inability to sleep or stay asleep.

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  • It involves more than just an inability to focus on the test, however.

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  • Test anxiety, however, isn't so much about an inability to concentrate as it is about reacting in a negative manner to a stressful situation.

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  • A person's inability to control the amount of alcohol he or she drinks is a major symptom of alcoholism.

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  • Dog owners may need to sell their pets because of unexpected allergies, moving, new puppies, inability to care for the animal, or incompatibility.

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  • Not wearing a cache-sexe is a visible statement of a woman's inability or unwillingness to participate in social interaction, as when ill or in mourning.

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  • Its inability to retain moisture and sufficient nutrients requires the addition of plenty of organic matter.

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  • When she started out in 1984 with less than $400 in the bank, four design styles, and the inability to even sew a stitch, Eileen Fisher probably had no idea just how fast her venture would take off and grow.

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  • Many women commonly find themselves tearful, upset at the slightest trigger, with a distinct inability to concentrate.

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  • Congestive heart failure in the elderly refers to the heart's physical state of slowing down and inability to beat as efficiently as it once did.

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  • Difficulties include trouble word or name finding, performance issues in social or work settings and inability to retain information.

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  • Other warning signs and Alzheimer's info may include an inability to complete familiar tasks or repeated episodes of poor judgment.

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  • The brain notices this inability to breath and alerts the individual virtually instantly.

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  • Those who have sleep apnea need treatment since the stoppage of breathing leads to the inability to sleep and possible complications.

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  • The causes of narcolepsy may be the inability of the brain to regulate the sleep cycle, in particular the sleep and awake mechanisms.

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  • If the brain is unable to enter restorative sleep for long enough periods, you may face problems including a drop in response time, inability to remember details, and the inability to perform tasks as you used to.

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  • Being forced to stay awake or a persistent inability to sleep can leave a person as impaired as imbibing too much alcohol.

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  • This log is used to detail sleep quality, habits, and problems that may be leading to the inability to obtain quality sleep.

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  • Those who use these logs are able to spot distractions or pinpoint disruptive behavior, which could be causing their inability to get good sleep.

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  • For those struggling with insomnia or the inability to get to sleep, chamomile can help.

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  • Do you have memory loss or the inability to concentrate?

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  • Depression can cause some to sleep too much, but some people report the inability to sleep.

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  • Health conditions are often the cause of anxiety, depression or physical pain, which can lead to the inability to sleep.

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  • The inability to get enough rest has been shown in studies to have a higher mortality risk than heart disease, hypertension and smoking.

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  • The weight gain can contribute to the sleep disorder, but the sleep disorder also contributes to the inability to lose the excess weight.

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  • Individuals may also have a loss of muscle tone, distorted perceptions and the inability to move or talk.

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  • Sleep disorders are typically associated with the inability to fall asleep, sleep apnea, waking frequently, behavior disoders, and excessive sleeping.

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  • Bedwetting can wake the child during the night and the episode may lead to the child's inability to fall back asleep.

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  • Cirrhosis - Cirrhosis is defined as scarring in the liver, which may lead to the inability of the organ to function properly.

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  • Insomnia is a condition characterized by a lack of sleep, inability to fall asleep, stay asleep or get adequate sleep on a regular basis.

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  • This is called learned insomnia, and is described as a worry over the inability to sleep.

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  • Insomnia is the inability to fall or stay asleep.

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  • Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep or remain asleep at night.

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  • Since multifocal lenses are designed for those with presbyopia, a condition common with aging that causes the inability to focus on objects close by, they are a popular alternative to bifocal glasses.

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  • Don't be afraid that discomfort with one pair of lenses will equate to the inability to wear contact lenses at all.

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  • By 1960, because of declining attendance and the inability to modernize the park, LeSourdsville Lake was sold to former Cedar Point concessionaires Frank Murru and Howard Berni.

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  • In the case of a refurbished PS3, it could be something like a faulty laser or the inability to synchronize with one of the wireless controllers.

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  • One of the downfalls of the original iPhone is the inability to send pictures via text and email when you first purchase it..

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  • The problem resulted in dropped calls and the inability to connect to the network at all sometimes.

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  • Tube feedings may be required in some patients with failure to thrive, aspiration pneumonia, difficulty swallowing, or an inability to ingest adequate calories orally to maintain nutritional status or promote growth.

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  • Curiosity, inability to read warning labels, a desire to imitate adults, and inadequate supervision lead to most childhood poisonings.

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  • Lactose intolerance refers to the inability of the body to digest lactose.

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  • Loss of sensation can cause problems such as numbness and the inability to feel if something is hot or cold.

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  • Symptoms of nursemaid's elbow include immediate pain in the injured arm, refusal or inability to move the injured arm, creating a condition called pseudo-paralysis, persistent crying, refusal to play, and anxiety.

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  • An inability to play with or lack of interest in toys at an early age may indicate a developmental problem in such areas as gross and fine motor skills.

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  • The term anorexia nervosa comes from two Latin words that mean "nervous inability to eat."

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  • Inability to interpret the body's hunger signals accurately due to early experiences of inappropriate feeding.

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  • This is less denial than it is the inability to understand the concept of death.

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  • Rather, psychological characteristics and the inability to behave appropriately in social settings are more likely to prevent the individual from living and functioning completely on his or her own.

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  • Other abdominal symptoms are caused by the inability of the pancreas to supply digestive enzymes to the intestine.

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  • Symptoms include labored breathing, the inability to forcefully blow air out of the lungs, and an increased susceptibility to respiratory tract infections.

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  • Others have many health problems throughout life, including mental disabilities and the inability to absorb nutrients through the intestinal tract.

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  • This is a condition marked by general restlessness, excessive activity, and inability to concentrate on a topic.

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  • Symptoms include flat or inappropriate emotions, an inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of motivation, reduced attention span, lack of interest in one's surroundings, and social withdrawal.

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  • As of 2004, the A-T diagnosis is usually based on the characteristic clinical findings and supported by laboratory tests that point to a defect of DNA (genes and chromosomes) and to an inability to repair some types of damage to DNA.

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  • Diabetes-A disease characterized by an inability to process sugars in the diet, due to a decrease in or total absence of insulin production.

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  • Grade III, or third degree, sprains are caused by complete tearing of the ligament where there is severe pain, loss of joint function, widespread swelling and bruising, and the inability to bear weight.

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  • The inability to sense pain along with the complications of delayed wound healing can result in minor injuries, blisters, or calluses becoming infected and difficult to treat.

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  • Lactose intolerance-An inability to properly digest the lactose found in milk and dairy products.

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  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome-ashen color, rapid and difficult breathing, and inability to eat.

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  • This inability to project beyond what is immediately visible, coupled with the newly formed attachment to the caregiver, causes distress that is usually expressed by crying.

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  • It is a chronic disease characterized by the inability of the body to produce or respond properly to insulin, a hormone required by the body to convert glucose to energy.

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  • Impulse control disorders are a relatively new class of personality disorders characterized by an ongoing inability to resist impulses to perform actions that are harmful to oneself or others.

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  • Kleptomania is an inability to resist impulses to repetitively steal objects that are not necessary for personal use or monetary value.

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  • Poisoning by nitrite (or nitrate after its conversion to nitrite) results in the inability of hemoglobin to carry oxygen throughout the body.

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  • They can range from slow acquisition of language to sound substitution or stuttering to the inability to understand or produce and language at all.

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  • These children may experience frequent acute intoxication or withdrawal symptoms, medical complications, or an inability to stop or reduce their alcohol intake.

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  • Children with Tay-Sachs also have other symptoms, such as loss of peripheral (side) vision, inability to breathe and swallow, and paralysis as the disorder progresses.

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  • Symptoms of mumps encephalitis include the inability to feel pain, seizures, and high fever.

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  • A child's inability in these areas can also cause a sense of failure and provoke a life-long aversion to organized sports.

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  • Contact lens wearers should seek immediate attention if they experience eye pain, a burning sensation, red eyes, intolerable sensitivity to light, cloudy vision, or an inability to keep the eyes open.

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  • Suicidal behavior is rare in children prior to puberty, probably because of their relative inability to plan and execute a suicide attempt.

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  • Sleep paralysis, a frightening inability to move shortly after awakening or dozing off.

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  • Autism is a profound mental disorder marked by an inability to communicate and interact with others.

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  • These patterns include inability to fall asleep at bedtime, repeated awakening during the night, and/or inability to go back to sleep once awakened.

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  • The child complains of either diminished, distorted or complete inability to taste food or drink.

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  • The cramping results from the inability of the muscular contractions of the bowel to push the digested food past the obstruction.

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  • Inability to eat or drink worsens the situation.

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  • Exactly how the repeat of genetic information causes myotonia, the inability to relax muscles, is not yet understood.

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  • Over-the-counter (OTC) antihistamines are also available; however, most anti-histamines carry warnings of drowsiness and the inability to do some tasks while medicated.

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  • It is accompanied by the inability to relax the affected muscles (myotonia).

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  • Diaphragm weakness leads to reduced energy and stamina and increased lung infection because of the inability to cough effectively.

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  • Facial weakness may lead to loss of facial expression, difficulty closing the eyes completely, and inability to drink through a straw, blow up a balloon, or whistle.

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  • Problems have included immune rejection of the virus used to introduce the gene, loss of gene function after several weeks, and an inability to get the gene to enough cells to make a functional difference in the affected muscle.

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  • Immunoglobulin deficiencies refer to missing or reduced levels of immunoglobulin (IgG, IgA, IgM) associated with an inability to make adequate specific antibody.

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  • Some of the common problems among premature infants are jaundice (yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes), apnea (a long pause in breathing), and inability to breast or bottle feed.

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  • Carbohydrate intolerance is the inability of the small intestine to completely process the nutrient carbohydrate (a classification that includes sugars and starches) into a source of energy for the body.

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  • Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest the sugar found in milk.

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  • It may be impossible (due to pain and swelling) to see much of the ear canal, but this inability itself is diagnostic.

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  • By mid-puberty, boys with Klinefelter syndrome have low levels of testosterone, resulting in small testicles and the inability to make sperm.

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  • Anxiety, restlessness, inability to concentrate, and intrusive thoughts about the abandonment take a toll and can lead to a drop in school performance and difficulties with classmates.

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  • Parents may need to seek professional psychological help for children suffering from low self-esteem when the child is depressed or shows an inability to create friendships.

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  • Malabsorption-The inability of the digestive tract to absorb all the nutrients from food due to some malfunction or disability.

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  • The infusions are given approximately once a month for life to compensate for the patients' inability to make these proteins.

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  • Because boron is involved in the absorption of calcium, the only symptom may be reduced levels of calcium or the inability to absorb supplemental calcium.

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  • This level of PEM is characterized by a weakened grip and inability to perform high-energy tasks.

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  • Some children recover completely, while others may have a variety of lifelong impairments, including an inability to properly absorb nutrients in the intestines, as well as mental retardation.

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  • It results from the inability to process graphic symbols.

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  • Social and emotional difficulties often accompany this disorder, as children are unable to meet expectations of parents and teachers and feel frustrated at their inability to achieve their goals.

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  • Disability-An inability to do something others can do; sometimes referred to as handicap or impairment.

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  • Diagnosis that the esophagus is interrupted is confirmed by the inability to insert a nasogastric suction tube into the stomach.

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  • Galactosemia is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease resulting from the body's inability to metabolize galactose.

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  • Kallman's syndrome is a disorder of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, delayed puberty, and anosmia (the inability to smell).

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  • Anosmia, the inability to smell, was first described with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in 1856, but it was not until 1944 that an instance of Kallman's reported the inheritance of the two symptoms together in three separate families.

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  • Other possible symptoms are pain on urination, inability to urinate, or frequent urge to urinate if the swollen appendix is near the urinary tract and bladder.

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  • Cerebellar disorders cause inability to control the force, fine positioning, and speed of movements (ataxia).

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  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) is a neurobiological disorder characterized by hyperactivity, impulsive behavior, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or activities.

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  • Children with AD/HD have difficulties with inattention that can be manifest as a lack of concentration, an easily distracted focus, and an inability to know when and how long to focus.

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  • Color blindness is an abnormal condition characterized by the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum.

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  • Blue color blindness is an inability to distinguish both blue and yellow, which are seen as white or gray.

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  • A total inability to distinguish colors (achromatopsia) is exceedingly rare.

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  • Achromatopsia, the complete inability to distinguish color, is an autosomal recessive disease of the retina.

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  • The inability to correctly identify colors is the only sign of color blindness.

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  • Achromatopsia-The inability to distinguish any colors.

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  • One of the negative aspects of homeschooling that parents are bound to experience is the inability to teach a particular subject.

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  • In general, unemployment affects all corners of the globe at the same time to some degree, for everyone lives in a "global economy" wherein the inability to spend and stimulate growth in one nation adversely affects another.

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  • Unfortunately, unemployment caused by an economic downturn is difficult to turn around due to the inability of nonworking individuals to spend money.

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  • Ask to speak to a manager at CitiMortgage and be frank in your description of your inability to pay.

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  • Because a foreclosed home is essentially a home someone else lost due to the inability to pay, the government issues rules on how foreclosed homes may be purchased.

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  • Medically speaking, infertility is defined as the inability of a woman under age 35 to become pregnant after one year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse.

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  • Secondary infertility is the inability to successfully conceive a second child after previously giving birth.

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  • There are rare occasions when there may be problems performing the test and these situations usually involve an inability to obtain the necessary amniotic fluid.

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  • Erectile dysfunction, also known as ED or impotence, is the inability to achieve and/or maintain an erection during sexual intercourse long enough to complete orgasm.

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  • Infertility, or the inability to get pregnant, can be caused by male or female conditions.

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  • Another physical condition contributing to infertility is erectile dysfunction or the inability to achieve or maintain an erection long enough to ejaculate inside the vagina.

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  • Inability to use hormonal birth control.

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  • These locales can be preferable for older teens and adults who may be taking their first classes and feel sensitive about their inability to do what much smaller children can manage.

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  • It's a word often used to describe so-called "disposable" clothes - those that are worn once or twice and then tossed, either due to poor construction and inability to hold up or simply to losing their trendy status.

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  • This inability to move is called a "checkmate."

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  • Many say that this inability to meet in person actually allows couples to get to know one another on a much better, intimate level in the beginning of a relationship.

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  • Erectile Dysfunction (ED) is a man's inability to achieve or maintain an erection.

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  • Their inability to think about the consequences of their actions in addition to their inability to control their impulses makes them a dangerous combination of adult looking and child acting.

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  • Any attempt would inevitably end in failure due to my inability to cope with her success.

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  • Shopping locally offers plenty of advantages such as speaking to a salesperson and trying on a ring for size and appearance.The main disadvantage of local jewelry shopping is the inability to compare prices.

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  • However, the main disadvantage of local jewelry shopping is the inability to compare prices.

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  • When there is an inability to absorb iron into the system, you could become anemic.

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  • That leads to further complications including the inability for the small intestine to absorb nutrients from food consumed.

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  • This attack results in the destruction of intestinal villi, which, then, leads to the body's inability to properly absorb nutrients through the small intestine.

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  • The inability to meet customer demand raised the exclusivity of the handbag, thereby increasing the demand even further.

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  • Children in permissive households may also learn behaviors that do not serve them well in adulthood, such as manipulative behavior, lacking a sense of self-discipline, and an inability to cope with authority.

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  • Surely a part of the delay was caused by an inability to cast a reliable Aslan since big cats can be rather unpredictable around large groups of people.

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  • Jessica Biel's character, Mary, underwent many issues over the years on the show, not the least of which was an inability to stay out of trouble.

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  • She actually did leave due to the inability for the General Hospital execs and herself to come to a satisfactory comprise regarding her contract.

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  • The boy's got some real talent, but it's his inability to get serious that keeps getting in his way.Can a slightly goofy twenty-something year old guy with a good heart really find happiness as a rappin' tattoo artist?

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  • The jewelry used for a genital body piercing may actually injure your partner, and in some instances, men have reported an inability to perform after having received a genital piercing.

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  • The one drawback to this method is the inability to customize the colors and size of the hummingbird to suit your tastes.

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  • Its onset is gradual at first, with symptoms beginning to appear that can include a loss of muscle tone, slow head and brain growth, and an inability to control the hands.

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  • The problem is not a lack of caring; it is an inability to understand why others do not have the same responses and interests.

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  • The inability to recognize social cues, body language and facial expressions can significantly interfere with a person's ability to function in the social realm.

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  • One of the most significant effect on daily life is the development of apraxia, which is the inability or the reduced ability to perform motor movements.

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  • Possibly, there is an inability to understand sarcastic comments.

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  • Among the most challenging problems that children with autism have to deal with is the inability to recognize emotions in others.

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  • The manufacturer downfall in leasing is the inability to actually determine the end value or residual value at the completion of those leases.

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  • The website did note that the vehicle has a high price point for a hybrid and that the inability of the third row of seats to fold down makes the interior a bit cramped.

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  • Long-term use has been shown to lead to an inability to have a bowel movement without first using a laxative.

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  • Inability to perform daily activities of living as a result of obesity.

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  • Gastric bypass patients traditionally have been known to lose weight quicker due to the combination of procedures and the greater inability to absorb calories from food.

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  • When a person with celiac disease ingests gluten, his or her immune system attacks the villi within the small intestine, resulting in an inability for nutrients from food to enter the bloodstream.

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  • A number of experts have long believed the inability to lose weight carries an emotional component to it.

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  • The character has a passion for insurance and for helping customers, yet her inability to filter her thoughts turn funny situations into true comedy.

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  • They used to be used to morph ladies' waistlines into sizes they weren't meant to be, which resulted in health issues such as organ problems, deformities, the inability to bear children and a loss of muscle strength.

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  • Troy is dealing with pressure from his parents about his academic future and his inability to decide what he is going to do with his life.

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  • The child is gifted with the ability to communicate with the dead at the location of their death, and his life is made miserable by his inability to shut them out.

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  • Mork was an ET who was taken in by human Mindy, and humor was found in his inability to understand human cultural mores and norms.

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  • It was Spock's inability to return her feelings that led to tension between them.

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  • It was during this time the two openly discussed her attraction and Spock's inability to return the sentiment.

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  • While Data's inability to feel emotion and Spock's suppression of emotion offered multiple parallels, the characters remained unique as individuals and in relationships with others.

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  • The inability to sleep due to itching or restlessness could come from exposure to the bloodsuckers.

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  • The inability to change the layout of your Facebook pages is seen as a real drawback to many people.

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  • Hell buffered his natural inability to rein in the magic and absorbed much of his energies.

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  • The wild and inaccessible character of the country, the fierce and lawless disposition of the people, the difficulties presented by their language and their complex social institutions, and the inability of the Turkish authorities to afford a safe conduct in the remoter districts, combine to render Albania almost unknown to the foreign traveller, and many of its geographical problems still remain unsolved.

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  • The way in which the taxes press on the poor may be shown by the number of small proprietors sold up owing to inability to pay the,.

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  • The inability to enter the cells may be due to the lack of chemotactic bodies, to incapacity to form cellulose-dissolving enzymes, to the existence in the hostcells of antagonistic bodies which neutralize or destroy the acids, enzymes or poisons formed by the hyphae, or even to the formation and excretion of bodies which poison the Fungus.

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  • His plans were foiled by the courage of Arminius and the inability of the Roman exchequer to pay a larger army.

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  • Even the reform of taxation carried out in the autumn of 1915 (modification of the inheritance and donations duty and the taxation on insurance policies and legal charges) cannot be regarded strictly as war taxes, as they had been planned a considerable time before the outbreak of the war and had only been delayed by the inability of Parliament to continue its work.

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  • A deeper reason was his inability to approve of the advanced views of the Radicals, or "Clear Grits," as they came to be called.

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  • His inability to resist the demands of his nobles left a heritage of trouble in Aragon.

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  • The strength of materialism consists in recognizing nature without explaining it away, its weakness in its utter inability to explain consciousness either in its nature or in its origin.

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  • The Anglo-Boer War had then but recently ended, and in Germany generally, and especially in military circles, it had provoked much adverse criticism on the inability of the British to bring the contest to a speedier conclusion.

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  • The decree did not affect the inability liberty.

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  • The success of the present mahdi in raising the tribes and extending his influence over great tracts of country was a sufficient proof of the governments inability either to reconcile the inhabitants to its rule or to maintain order.

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  • The authorities may be excused for their' inability in the early days of the war to grasp the essential facts of the situation, but they laid themselves open to severe criticism for the delay in realizing that a change of policy was necessary.

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  • It is frequently stated that Marazion had formerly the right of returning two members to parliament, but that owing to its inability to pay the members' expenses the right was lost.

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  • The gentry, who had proclaimed their inability to suppress conventicles, were ordered to sign a bond making them responsible for their tenants, and were bound over to keep the king's peace by " law burrows," a method common in private life but unheard of between monarch and people.

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  • The murderers rode to the west, joined the company of Robert Hamilton, defeated Graham of Claverhouse with a small force of horse at Drumclog, occupied Glasgow, and proved the total inability of the regular forces to cope with a rising.

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  • During the American civil war the planters of Ecuador entered largely into the production of cotton, which at that time yielded large profits, but the industry has declined to very insignificant proportions since then because of inability to compete with the lower cost of production in the United States.

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  • The result for the nation was in the one case despotism, equality and order, in the other individual liberty and an inability to move as a whole.

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  • He pleaded inability, but the stranger insisted, and he was compelled to obey.

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  • These to the number of twenty-five the synod subscribed, and adopted a supplementary statement, reaffirming the Augustinian doctrines of corruption, human inability, prevenient grace and baptismal regeneration.

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  • From the very beginning of the Great Northern War Sweden suffered from, the inability of Charles XII.

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  • Among the hard conditions for the latter country were the cession in perpetuity of the khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan, the inability to have an armed vessel in the Caspian, and the payment of a war indemnity of some 3,000,000.

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  • On the other hand, a heart that is too feeble may cause its owner's death by its inability to carry on the circulation against increased - resistance.

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  • In inflammation of the stomach also such continuous vomiting occasionally occurs that the patient's life is in danger by his inability to retain food; and similar danger also occurs from inflammation of the intestines and consequent diarrhoea.

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  • Julien, is exceedingly interesting; its Chinese style receives high praise from the translator, who says he has often had to regret his inability to reproduce its grace, elegance and vivacity.

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  • After the above events Khodadad maintained his precarious position with great difficulty; but owing to his inability to govern his unruly subjects without material assistance from the British government, which they were not disposed to give, his country gradually fell into the greatest anarchy; and, consequently, some of the provisions of the treaty of 1854 having been broken, diplomatic relations were discontinued with the Kalat state after the end of 1874.

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  • The failure of the dictatorship and the inability of the monarchists to agree upon any common policy had discredited the existing regime, and at the general election of August 1910 the Republican candidates in Lisbon 1910.

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  • It was expected by the government that the 1906 revenues would largely exceed 1905, but the expectation was not fully realized, chiefly, it may be assumed, because of the inability of an impoverished people to meet an increase in taxation.

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  • He evinced, as premier of the Cape Colony, the same inability to understand the Uitlanders' grievances, the same futile belief in the eventual fairness of President Kruger, as he had shown when giving evidence before the British South Africa Select Committee into the causes of the Jameson Raid.

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  • Burke's vital error was his inability to see that a root and branch revolution was, under the conditions, inevitable.

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  • According to Polybius, his inability to resist the pressure of those around him was responsible for it.

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  • Chillingworth, Jeremy Taylor, Glanvill and other philosophical thinkers in the Church of England urged toleration in the state, in conjunction with wide comprehension in the church, on the ground of our necessary intellectual limitation and inability to reach demonstration in theological debates.

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  • That this prosperity was not altogether uninterrupted is testified by the fact that, at the time of the Armada, the mayor pleaded inability to contribute three ships, on account of injuries to trade consequent on the war with Spain.

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  • For whatever may be the real character of the interrelation of moral and metaphysical first principles it is obvious that Taylor's own dissatisfaction with current moral principles arises from an inability to believe in their ultimate rationality, i.e.

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  • The utter neglect of the Servian interests by Russia at San Stefano, and her evident inability at the Berlin Congress to do anything for Servia, determined Prince Milan to change the traditional policy of his country, and instead of continuing to seek support from Russia, he tried to come to an understanding with Austria-Hungary concerning the conditions under which that power would give its support to Servian interests.

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  • The inability of the council to enforce its resolutions was chiefly due to its composition; the majority of the communities represented were even in combination no match for individual cities like Athens, Sparta or Thebes.

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  • Even in the department of natural science he shows the same inability steadfastly to retain principles and to work from them; he wavers between the systems of Brahe and Copernicus.

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  • The fact was that between the kings inability to defend the kingdom, and the powerlessness of nobles and peasants to protect themselves from pillage, every man made it his business to seek new protectors, and the country, in spite of Charles the Balds efforts, began to be covered with strongholds, the peasant learning to live beneath the shelter of the donjon keeps.

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  • His indifference to their good, or his utter inability to see where it lay, was conspicuously shown when, on his abdication in 1556, he left his hereditary Flemish possessions to his son Philip, and not to his brother Ferdinand.

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  • Narvaez brought Spain through the troubled revolutionary years 1848 and 1849 without serious disturbance, but his own unstable temper, the incessant intrigues of the palace, and the inability of the Spaniards to form lasting political parties made good government impossible.

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  • They condemned marriage (save, perhaps, first marriages), the eating of meat, baptism of children, veneration of saints, fasting, prayers for the dead and belief in purgatory, denied transubstantiation, declared the Catholic priesthood worthless, and considered the whole church of their time corrupted by the "negotia saecularia" which absorbed all 1 One result is their inability to form a true theory of Judaism and of the Old Testament in relation to the Gospel, a matter of great moment for them and for their successors.

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  • Maybe he was to blame for her inability to move forward.

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  • The author speculated that the tips bore an eerie similarity and law enforcement personnel questioned about the coincidences confessed an inability to understand how the tipster obtained his or her knowledge.

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  • Quinn, the scientist, remained frustrated with his inability to bring Howie back to a specific place and precise time further back than a day or two.

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  • She staggered up, cursing the drugs and Jake for her inability to balance, and slammed into several pieces of furniture as the monsters chased her.

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  • The death visions, the distrust everyone on the planet had for a soul-reader, the inability to eat … they were nothing compared to helping a man find his soul again.

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  • Deidre didn't understand how to balance the two sensations, the physical need that made her want to drink more of him and beg him to make love to her again, and the inability to believe her fate was at the side of the Dark One.

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  • He cursed his inability to communicate with the rest of humanity and considered driving directly to town to seek help, but thoughts of a person trapped in the twisted wreckage, prompted him to strain his eyes in the gathering darkness and search the abyss below.

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  • It was clear Gabriel's instincts about his inability to trust her were right, and Gabriel had no idea how to interpret Andre's warning.

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  • He still thought the inability to talk was a psychological thing.

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  • Jackson asked, "So, do you think my inability to feed on Elisabeth is for her protection?"

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  • The inability to know how he should react puzzled him.

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  • She knew it; one of the few limitations an Oracle had was the inability to see her own future.

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  • Many projects fail due to organizations' inability to administer the wide range of funds available.

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  • The soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

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  • The result can be severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms include agoraphobia, inability to communicate, uncontrollable anger and distress.

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  • The perennial bane of religious sects is the inability to handle the problem of jealousy.

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  • The only weakness these creatures had was their inability to digest cellulose.

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  • Murphy's inability to even chastise or rally the troops during the game did not reflect well on him.

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  • Isn't it a little conceited of an actress to produce a play about her inability to produce a play?

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  • Almost incessant weeping, and lots of talk about low self-esteem, inability to cope, fear, and generally depressive.

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  • I would simply feign an inability to decide which of two playthings I really wanted.

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  • Tensions simmer between art student Lauren and her layabout boyfriend James over their inability to find a new housemate.

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  • The two sides repaired to the ' Shoes for refreshment but were frustrated by an inability to get served.

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  • She had been suffering increasingly with bouts of depression, accompanied by an inability to write, since the early 1940s.

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  • In a few cases the intestinal pain is caused by inability to digest cow's milk.

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  • Stress can be defined as a perceived inability to cope with an unpleasant or painful life situation.

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  • Supposing that these arguments are sound, what conclusion does Nāgārjuna wish us to draw from our supposed inability to theorize reality?

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  • This would demonstrate an inability to consider what Sally's beliefs are.

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  • Within yourself the reversed Pope indicates an inability to connect with our higher self and a lack of trust in our intuition.

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  • It highlights the inability of the research to measure the impact of poor basic skills on industry or regional productivity.

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  • In some cases, the corporate failures reflect an inability to resolve temporary liquidity problems affecting a company that remains viable in the longer-term.

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  • With a seeming inability to rest; to stop what they're doing.

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  • Rimmer's failings are down to his utter inability to leap the hurdle of his own self-loathing.

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  • Agency Turmoil Recent attacks on Scottish Screen have focused on the agency's apparent inability to invest in features that are certain box office winners.

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  • The insensitivity of the male protagonist and his consequent inability to satisfy the basic needs of the female is thus a recurring theme.

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  • This is a sign of a pathological inability to grasp this country's reality.

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  • However, given the chronic American inability to understand geography, they were reported as coming from Lapland rather than Iceland.

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  • Ultimately, it was a tradegy, motivated by good intentions and destroyed by incompetence and inability.

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  • It is a factor that makes people lethargic and mentally confused, with an inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss.

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  • Solving the inability Most new file systems have widened their number of bits for some fields, in order to overcome previous limitations.

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  • In the first few months of my divorce, I lost my then newish job entirely due to an inability to work.

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  • Proof of the inability of an Expert Committee to express opinion will not discharge such onus.

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  • All this after in September having no letter recognition, an inability to hear initial phonemes and having little concept of rhyme.

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  • A non-NULL pointer will generally be returned except in out-of-memory conditions or serious errors such as inability to send the command to the backend.

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  • The inability of the planar molecules to stack up would prevent polymerization from taking place.

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  • His inability to deliver a really good quip also makes a mockery of some of the humor.

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  • Impotence is the inability to maintain an erection long enough to engage in normal sexual intercourse.

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  • The design and operation of all communities have consequences for local and global sus ta inability.

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  • With the inability to refute the lies and slanders within the Soviet Union, the cult of Stalin became unassailable.

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  • The inability of contractors to make prompt payments could trigger labor unrest on construction sites.

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  • That not percent mental health inventory contrast each health insurance for small business Virginia of is the inability.

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  • The inability to defend vivisection was also illustrated by a letter included on the British Medical Journal website.

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  • All the earlier evidence goes to show that only an informal understanding was arrived at, based on the de facto inability of either power to cripple the other (see Cimon).

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  • Taylor's theology was distinctively infra-lapsarian; it disagreed with Samuel Hopkins and Emmons in rejecting the theory of "divine efficiency" and in arguing that man can choose the right "even if he won't" - distinguishing like Edwards between natural ability and moral inability; it distinguished sensibility or susceptibility as something different from will or understanding, without moral qualities, to which the appeal for right choice may be made; and it made selflove (a term borrowed from Dugald Stewart, connoting the innocent love of happiness and distinct from selfishness) the particular feeling appealed to by the influences of the law and gospel.

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  • In concert with Jeanne Francoise Fremyot (1572-1641), widow of the baron de Chantal, whose acquaintance he made while preaching through Lent at Dijon in 1604, he founded the order of the Visitation, in favour of "strong souls with weak bodies," as he said, deterred from entering the orders already existing, by their inability to undertake severe corporal austerities.

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  • In both versions his name and parentage are concealed, in the Lanzelet he is genuinely ignorant of both; here too his lack of all knightly accomplishments (not unnatural when we remember he has here been brought up entirely by women) and his inability to handle a steed are insisted upon.

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  • Although, like most men of strong originative power, he assimilated with difficulty the ideas of others, his tardiness sprang rather from inability to depart from the track of his own methods than from reluctance to acknowledge the merits of his competitors.

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  • As to the use of reason beyond knowledge, Kant's position is that, in spite of its logical inability to transcend phenomena, reason in its pure, or a priori use, contains necessary a priori " ideals " (Ideen), and practical reason, in order to account for moral responsibility, frames postulates of the existence of things in themselves, or noumena, corresponding to these " ideals "; postulates of a real free-will to practise morality, of a real immortality of soul to perfect it, and of a real God to crown it with happiness.

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  • From the inability of the savage in all ages and in all lands to comprehend death as a natural phenomenon, there results a tendency to personify death, and myths are invented to account for its origin.

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  • After a short reign Shah Shuja was compelled to abdicate from his inability to repress the rising power of Fateh Khan, a Barakzai chief, and he took refuge first with Ranjit Singh, who then ruled the Punjab, and finally secured the protection of British power.

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  • Thus, from the sheer inability of the assembled ministers to devise a plan on which all could agree, Prussia and the states that had joined her in the Union were compelled to recognize the Frankfort diet.

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  • The first was the quantity of labor required to man them, the second was their inability to adequately respond to market changes.

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  • Prince is not only asserting his total artistic control but publicly displaying his inability to resist throwing a very heavy spanner into his works.

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  • Slurred speech is caused due to an inability to correctly control the muscles used in speech.

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  • His touching soliloquy at the end showed a man still puzzled by his continuing inability to ever see anything more than the facts.

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  • I have been avoiding Diet thread due to inability to do it, blaming a stinking cold at the moment !

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  • Bloomberg reserves the right to deny creation of your account based on Bloomberg 's inability to verify the authenticity of your registration information.

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  • That not percent mental health inventory contrast each health insurance for small business virginia of is the inability.

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  • If your baby experiences poor growth due to his inability to keep food in his stomach, then your doctor may need to prescribe medication.

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  • While polyester might be considered a safe fabric, many parents complain about its inability to breathe.

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  • Problems that might make your car a lemon include faulty breaks, an inability to start in hot or cold weather or an inability to get up to a safe driving speed.

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  • The only real issue here is the inability to play DVDs, but nowadays DVD players can be found in almost every household.

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  • This may cause imbalances and an inability for the body to absorb some nutrients; this can eventually cause renal failure.

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  • Another problem to watch for is a condition called ataxia; this is the inability to properly coordinate voluntary muscle movements.

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  • It does not look at that debt as an inability to pay.

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  • People facing the inability to pay their debt should consider using these organizations.

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  • However, an inability to conceive or differences between the spouses in wanting children is one of the most common reported causes of divorce for childless spouses.

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  • People who are looking for an herbal aid for impotence and inability to ejaculate won't have to look too far in this day and age.

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  • When you take an herbal aid for impotence and inability to ejaculate, it is always best to consult a physician first so that the mechanism behind your erectile dysfunction has been determined.

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  • Not only do its notes resound with a seeming inability to blend successfully, they seem practically incongruous - and it's only then that one begins to appreciate just how adventurous Parker really is.

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  • The inability to make a short turn on a narrow trail might mean that you will end up having a close encounter with a tree.

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  • Worse, if you are skiing the cat tracks that wind around in the mountains in areas such as Whistler, Canada, the inability to make a short radius turn might cause you to fall off the side of a cliff.

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  • Other causes for the inability to digest the vitamin include stomach surgery and prolonged use of medications for ulcers or heartburn.

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  • Unlike their male counterparts, most women relapse due to stress, a fear of weight gain, or an inability to cope with negative emotions.

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  • Since people who compulsively lie do not normally suffer from an inability to live safely and healthfully, this type of lying is not considered a disorder.

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  • Furthermore, the bowel and bladder have inadequate nerve connections, causing an inability to control bowel and bladder function.

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  • The child's inability to speak interferes with his or her ability to function in school and/or social settings.

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  • Over time, a child with selective mutism becomes mute because of an inability to cope with fearful feelings that occur when he or she is expected to speak.

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  • It is all too common for parents to question their child's pediatrician about the child's inability to speak in public and be told that the child is just shy and will outgrow the behavior.

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  • The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) defines narcolepsy as a "disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally."

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  • For some people, meditation practice, breathing exercises, and yoga can break the vicious cycle of sleeplessness, worry about inability to sleep, and further sleeplessness.

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  • Insomnia-A sleep disorder characterized by inability either to fall asleep or to stay asleep.

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  • Other symptoms include drooling, increase in blood pressure (hypertension), irregular heart beat, inability to open the mouth, high fever, kidney failure, and respiratory failure.

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  • Children who fail to thrive are either not receiving or have an inability to take in or retain adequate nutrition in order to gain weight and grow.

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  • The inability of infants to understand the concept of divorce makes the changes in their situation seem frighteningly unpredictable and confusing.

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  • But frustration and anger at their inability to communicate effectively can lead to numerous social and behavioral problems.

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  • This condition usually results from a dietary deficiency but may also be due to an inability to absorb (malabsorption) folic acid.

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  • They tend to have no close relationships outside the family circle and are upset at their inability to form meaningful relationships.

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  • Children are more likely to suffer sports injuries than adults since a child's vulnerability is heightened by immature reflexes, an inability to recognize and evaluate risks, and underdeveloped coordination.

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  • Incontinence-A condition characterized by the inability to control urination or bowel functions.

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  • A lisp is a functional speech disorder that involves the inability to correctly pronounce one or more sibilant consonant sounds, usually s or z.

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  • Lisping is a speech disorder characterized by the inability to correctly pronounce the sounds of s or z, known as the sibilant consonants.

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  • Children may be frustrated by their inability to perform an activity they are attempting, such as buttoning a coat.

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  • At this age, frustration with inability to do homework may often be the cause of tantrums.

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  • Many people with childhood or adult Asperger syndrome have trouble with social interactions because of their fixated interests on certain subjects and their inability to process nuances like body language, vocal tone and idioms.

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  • There are many differences too, most notably the inability to change and customize your Facebook layout.

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  • In order to understand the utter inability of the old republican party to withstand these changes, it is needful to retrace our steps and consider the skilful use made by Bonaparte of plots and disturbances as they occurred.

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  • The most important fact in his history is his confession, recorded by Orosius, that he saw the inability of his countrymen to rear a civilized or abiding kingdom, and that consequently his aim should be to build on Roman foundations and blend the two nations into one.

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  • Now, in so far as both Neoplatonism and the church dogmatic set out from the felt need of redemption, in so far as both sought to deliver the soul from sensuality and recognized man's inability without divine aid - without a revelation - to attain salvation and a sure knowledge of the truth, they are at once most intimately related and at the same time mutually independent.

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  • On the other hand, under the influence of the mechanics of his day, which had hardly distinguished between inertia, or the inability of a body to change itself, and resistance or the ability of bodies to oppose one another, he concluded that, as inertia is passive, so is resistance, and refused to recognize that in collision the mutual resistance of moving bodies is a force, or active power, of changing their movements in opposite directions.

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  • Mr Balfour's inability to get the maximum amount of work out of the House was largely due to the situation in South Africa, which absorbed the intellectual energies of the House and of the country and impeded the progress of legislation.

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  • In France the Conservative Monarchical party had just shown its inability to preserve the Crown, whilst the Republic had anchored itself firmly by denouncing the clergy as its enemy.

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  • At the close of the monarchy, the plebeian possessed the private rights of citizenship in entirety, except for his inability to contract a legal marriage with a patrician, and one of the public rights, that of giving his vote in the assembly.'

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  • Lack of the power of brain concentration and severe inability to undergo the mental strain of arduous work are often the penalty which white races pay.

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  • Few men in American public life have possessed more intrinsic worth, more independence, more public spirit and more ability than Adams, but throughout his political career he was handicapped by a certain reserve, a certain austerity and coolness of manner, and by his consequent inability to appeal to the imaginations and affections of the people as a whole.

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  • Though the authority of the courts had been strengthened by the Petition of Right and the act of 1640, it was still rendered insufficient by reason of the insecurity of judicial tenure, the fact that only the chancellor (a political as well as a legal officer) and the court of king's bench had undoubted right to issue the writ, and the inability or hesitation of the competent judges to issue the writ except during the legal term, which did not cover more than half the year.

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  • Stephen West (1735-1819), too, out-Edwardsed Edwards in his defence of the treatise on the Freedom of the Will, and John Smalley (1734-1820) developed the idea of a natural (not moral) inability on the part of man to obey God.

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  • Marked differences might stem from the government's inability to tell the truth on this issue, or even stick to the same lie.

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  • Osteoporosis occurs as a result of the body's inability to absorb sufficient levels of calcium.

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  • The child has either excessive tears or marked dryness and inability to make tears in one eye.

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  • Are you sure your failure to respond doesn't have something to do with his inability to talk?

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  • I have already told you that my inability to feed on you does not change how I feel.

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  • He was a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1789-1790, and of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1790, 1791, and 1792, and rose with surprising rapidity, despite his foreign birth and his inability to speak English with correctness or fluency.

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  • But the way in which he founded the leading Christian doctrines (after confessing his inability to rationalize them) on the arbitrary will of God was undoubtedly calculated to help in the work of disintegration.

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  • Inability of the first vice-president to assume the office opens the way for the second vice-president, who becomes acting president until a successor is chosen.

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  • A large increase in imports, caused by fictitious prosperity and inability to obtain drafts against guano shipments, led to the exportation of coin to meet commercial obligations, and this soon reduced the currency circulation to a paper basis.

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  • His rudeness to strangers was partly caused by shyness and partly by a childlike inability to conceal his feelings.

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  • I made no effort to teach her to speak, because I regarded her inability to watch the lips of others as an insurmountable obstacle.

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  • The pacification of the island, however, was delayed by the presence of the Turkish troops and the inability of the powers to agree in the choice of a new governorgeneral.

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  • The overload of emotions, the inability to read Gabriel's mind to find out what he thought, so she knew what to say or do.

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  • It would seem, however, that Eutyches differed from the Alexandrine school chiefly from inability to express his meaning with proper safeguards, for equally with them he denied that Christ's human nature was either transmuted or absorbed into his divine nature.

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  • The death visions, the distrust everyone on the planet had for a soul-reader, the inability to eat … they were nothing compared to helping a man find his soul again.

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  • He never allowed anyone but Sarah to see that side of him, and she often felt sorry for his inability to let the rest of the world in.

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  • As a natural result weak railway companies in the United States have frequently been declared insolvent by the courts, owing to their inability in periods of commercial depression to meet their acknowledged obligations, and in the reorganization which has followed the shareholders have usually had to accept a loss, temporary or permanent.

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  • His inability to handle a steed were obviously when he could not make the horst stop running.

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  • Near the site of Gisborne Captain Cook landed in 1769, and gave Poverty Bay its name from his inability to obtain supplies owing to the hostility of the natives.

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  • Then profuse salivation, paralysis of the tongue and larynx, and inability to speak.

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  • All his absent-mindedness and inability to enter a room and converse in it was, however, redeemed by his kindly, simple, and modest expression.

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  • She knew without a doubt that Romas's arrogance would never allow him to admit his inability to deal with her to anyone.

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  • If she ever failed to get what she wanted, it was because of her inability to make the vassals of her household understand what it was.

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