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Being underage is the inability to avail oneself of one's mind without the guidance of another.
The inability to beat up a classmate has produced more great thinkers than all the secrets of the Universe.
Superstitions derive from the inability of men to acknowledge that coincidences are merely coincidences.
Spending two hours writing an email that won't even take up one page of a sheet of paper is not something you can write home about. It's more like you're writing about your own inability to write coherently.
Movie subtitles
Ulysses watches the inability of the suitors at stringing his bow, and now has his bow handed to himself.
Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love and be loved.
YOUR PAINS ARE IMAGINARY. YOUR INABILITY TO SLEEP IS A CASE OF NERVES.
At the moment I'm working on her inability to drink water from a glass.
Ladies and gentlemen, I've learned that men's unhappiness arises from the inability to stay quietly in their own room.
But Elsa's inability to feed herself meant that George had to leave the reserve every day and drive a very long distance to another area where the shooting of game was allowed.
Ignorance? A layman's inability to comprehend?
Our inability to reach the landing party is strange, and I am concerned.
What about the Lawgivers' inability to cope with the unexpected?
I'm afraid I'll have to forego that bedside picture. as much as it would've compensated for his inability to testify tomorrow.
That the growth of technology- telegraph, cheap newspapers, railways, transport - is matched by a failure of imagination, Denson. a fatal inability to understand the meaning and consequences. of all these levers, wires and railways.
Like the hay fever, or the sickness caused by the oysters, or inability to eat meat.
Your inability to work together is endangering our whole plan.
Forgive my inability to communicate. There are things you might not understand.
Your opinions Mr. Holmes are undoubtedly the result of your inability to cope with something beyond the realm of your comprehension.
You know, the one unredeeming quality in women is their inability to keep their emotions out of their love affairs.
YOUR INABILITY TO SLEEP IS A CASE OF NERVES. NOTHING MORE.
That's wrong. Love is a challenge. Love is a challenge in the face of death, in the face of our inability to communicate, in the face of hypocrisy and conflict.
Do you realise the number of discoveries lost because of superstition, of ignorance, of a layman's inability to comprehend?
You don't have to criticize the way I live, if all I have now. one of the things that really gets me about people is their inability to sustain a feeling, an idea, without falling apart.
That's one of the signs of underdevelopment: the inability to relate things, to accumulate experience and to develop.
One common cause of nymphomania is the inability to have an orgasm.
Also a contempt for humanity, an inability to love and be loved. Insatiable ambition and talent.
From your mother you've inherited a dangerous inability to perceive reality.
What would your first duty be upon return to your vessel? A report. Do you realise the number of discoveries lost because of superstition, of ignorance, of a layman's inability to comprehend?
Let's not forget that in our inability to see the movements of the conjurer, we are put under the spell of magic.
The inability of the leaders. and not by socialism itself!
I don't appreciate you dumping this paranoid garbage on me nor your inability to follow a simple order especially when it means I have to pay for your flight back to New Orleans.
Parents divorced, desperation for a relationship with a male, inability to tolerate rejection, making threats.
An inability to do something?
I'm talking about this inability to improve your station in life.
Thompson, your inability to control the students. has convinced us that you are an ineffective president.
I don't know inability to finish things.
News and current affairs
Yet in all probability he would have been even more deeply disappointed in the inability of the Palestinians to come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state.
Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns' inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.
But the long-term prognosis - made especially dire by health-care reform's inability to make much of a dent in rising medical costs - is sufficiently bleak that there is increasing bipartisan momentum to do something.
Its inability to end the 44-year military occupation of Palestinian lands has not gone unnoticed.
This inability to discuss, clearly and forthrightly, this strategic doctrine continues to hamper the Alliance.
Yeltsin failed to consolidate political support for other reasons as well, the most important being his unwillingness (or inability) to forcefully manipulate the media.
The regime is under growing pressure from those at the bottom of North Korean society, and recognizes its own inability to handle the situation.
In response, however, more pragmatic voters are increasingly irate about political paralysis and their governing institutions' inability to respond to the preferences of a clear majority of the population.
Sagging public infrastructure and an inability to attract foreign capital have made the economic outlook even worse.
But these criticisms reflect an inability to contemplate the current nature of armed conflict, which no longer follows the classical logic of military victory or defeat.
But America's inability after the Great War to overcome Old World politics at Versailles and isolationism at home marked a failed opportunity to promote a positive watershed.
The housing-price boom of the 2000's was little more than a construction-supply bottleneck, an inability to satisfy investment demand fast enough, and was (or in some places will be) eliminated with massive increases in supply.
Moreover, the EU's image as a defender of human rights around the world will be tarnished by its inability to hold member states to its own standards.
America's inability to inspire the peoples of the Middle East, all ruled by US-backed autocracies, is not exactly stunning news.
And it was the foreign press that detailed the parallel failure of the United Nations, whose agents were on the ground but whose inability to call genocide by its proper name led to a comatose response.
The lack of forward movement stems not just from disagreement over goals, but also from the inability of a divided Palestinian leadership to compromise.
Reform is in the air - in part because of the scandal, but also because of the UN's inability to deal effectively with challenges ranging from Rwanda and Kosovo to Iraq and, most recently, Sudan.
This is particularly notable, given that Ecuador's was perhaps the first opportunistic default (triggered by unwillingness, rather than inability, to pay) in recent history.
America's friends around the world watched with dismay the recent brawl in over raising the federal government's debt ceiling, and the US Congress's inability to come to anything like a balanced and forward-looking compromise.
According to this view, British ambivalence toward Europe may reflect a persistent inability to leave behind the days of imperial grandeur.
But that position is difficult to reconcile with Germany's inability to call into question the euro or European structures and treaties.
Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.