inability
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His comments go much further than the gentle diplomatic pressure Malaysia's government has so far applied, but they reflect a simmering frustration with Indonesia's inability to control the fires.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
I wonder if your unwillingness or inability to move on from the accumulation phase of your retirement is because, after 35 years, saving and investing has been synonymous with psychological safety.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Your inability to simply complete a fair catch led directly to a Seahawks touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
In a prevention of future deaths report James Bennett, a coroner for Herefordshire, said the inability for police forces to provide round-the-clock specialist search officers was being impeded by a lack of training provision.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
I’m sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
Researchers also found partners expressed feelings of high stress, a diminished sense of personal growth and worth, difficulties or inabilities within their caregiving roles, and a general sense of feeling unsupported.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
In April 2020, the Department of Transportation received over 17,000 complaints about inabilities to get refunds for flights, a more than 17,000-percent increase from just 98 in the same month in 2019.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
Hewitt’s own inabilities aside, the actress can at least play the part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2018
But these inabilities do not exceed the corporeal: physical growth is not a metaphor for emotional growth.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2018
These and other questions connected with the subject were not acted upon by Congress, as it could not foresee the conditions of the inabilities in advance of their occurrence.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
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