inability

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The short June war with Israel also exposed the government’s weakness and its inability to protect itself from infiltration by Israeli spies.

From The Wall Street Journal

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From The Wall Street Journal

“While today’s ruling adopts a narrower constitutional framework than Dueñas, it affirms a core principle our work helped advance: Courts must consider a person’s inability to pay before imposing certain court assessments,” Eidmann said.

From Los Angeles Times

But some are leaving Congress due to growing frustration with the job and an inability to get things done.

From Salon

"We have multiple witnesses to the anguish that he was going through at his inability to get in and save his children and save his wife," Det Supt Ian Fletcher said.

From BBC