By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the catastrophic damage that began with the meeting of Igor Gouzenko and the RCMP.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
I think my generation’s inability to speak in absolute terms when it comes to politics is a very positive thing; it’s made us more nuanced, made us more complex.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
The scripts that I take should be solid in terms of content; only then will my inability as an actor not show up on the screen.
Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There’s too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’: the inability to imagine what it’s like not to know something that they know.
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people of Hong Kong. It has been reduced to a mere instrument of repression subservient to the political agenda of Beijing’s regime in Hong Kong.
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren’t children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don’t want to let go of our childhood.
We’re criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it’s not fair… I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility.
I felt that I was fooling myself eating meat considering my inability to kill an animal, so I just thought I’d better be honest to myself and stop eating meat.
I think President Trump is trying to distract the country away from the failures he’s had – the inability to get a health care bill that both sides could come together on.
It’s the inability to handle the pressure that makes a big difference between the Italian players and the England players when it comes to the World Cup stage.
The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media’s inability – or unwillingness – to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
