Lacking competence

Usage examples of unable.

Court was unable to concede that a Georgia statute levying on inhabitants of the State a poll tax payment of which is made a prerequisite for voting but exempting females who do not register for voting, in any way abridged the right of male citizens to vote on account of their sex.

Often, the leaders and practitioners of absolutist religions were unable to perceive any middle ground or recognize that the truth might draw upon and embrace apparently contradictory doctrines.

West calmly and relentlessly, abused his daughter until she was unable to refuse.

The abused becomes so unable to confront the abuser that she can not walk out.

The artful, evocative temptation he pressed on her held her captive, unable to think, unable to actable only to feel.

I was unable to find any record of Karl Acton using the medical scanner.

Negroes who had received sentences of death for rape, and asserted that, at least in capital cases, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him as a necessary requisite of due process of Law.

If he be unable to swallow, they may be administered as injections, but should gradually be discontinued as reaction takes place.

Many were too large to fit comfortably in buildings constructed on a human scale, and others, such as the Afanc and other water-dwellers, were unable to leave their own element, though they could move from Upper to Lower waters, and indeed, to other lakes and waterways in Gendival, via a network of subterranean waterways carved out by the Gaeorn long ago.

Many activities Helen was unable to join, but her affectionate disposition and eagerness to be involved made her very much a part of the class.

The pious Agaric sought to find the cause of this, but was unable to discover it until old Cornemuse revealed it to him.

I ran, carrying the cat litter box like a pizza tray, disrupting the class, causing Winnie to become highly agitato, unable to explain because I had a cigar in my mouth and was carrying a pizza tray and running for my life from men who were carrying wildly beeping receivers which made them Israeli spies and men who were wildly firing weapons which made them Arab terrorists and the whole macho parade failing to arouse or interest the girls in the slightest, which, of course, made them lesbians.

There will be times, increasingly frequent, when she is physically unable to effect her own, ahem, necessary functions.

Unable to decide where to go, Jeffrey had the man drive aimlessly around Boston.

One is confined to the island at Akasha, unable to flee for he cannot travel over running water.