Unable in a sentence as an adjective

To live with them and not let them win shows a kind of strength that most people are sadly unable to recognize.

The Apple founders would be unable to get funding these days. They wouldn't even get a meeting.

If you can make me laugh and then think, then more power and karma to you, but most of us are unable to produce such witty insight on the fly all the time. We try.

After a year of regular *** use he was unable to form a coherent sentence. Please be careful.

I am very sorry that the FBI is unable to track communications on the net. Really I am.

Whereas friends back home are often unable to plan vacations because they/their boss don't know how busy they'll be in 5 months.

It prevents random people near by phone from being unable to unlock it. If a thief got their hands on it, they'd have a few attempts to unlock it with a fake fingerprint, and then they'd have to enter my code.

Within an hour, somebody said: I'd like to read this but I'm unable to without giving them my FB login info. Am I missing something?

The fisherman was unable to afford one, and yet he had no other means of supporting his family. By the end of the decade his wife and children were begging on the street.

This is why I'll never be rich: I am utterly unable to sell crappy non-solutions to people with more money than knowledge.

On Google's page about seller countries they say: "We're working hard to add more countries, but we're unable to provide any guidance on timelines." No, you're ******* not working hard, you added the last ones a year and a half ago.

In Stripe's case, one of our banking partners responsible for the filings was unable to meet the original filing date for all 1099s. While they filed a proper extension with the IRS, this meant that receipt of your 1099 was delayed.

Meanwhile, patients are essentially unable to protect themselves against this travesty. Maybe in this case the invisible hand cannot be seen because it is not there?

If you lose your ability to feel joy and excitement about programming-related things, you'll be unable to do the best work. That this issue is separate from and parallel to burnout!

If I'm told "you look great in that" I am unable to figure out if it's really suitable for me, or if the assistant just wants to make a sale, or if the assistant hasn't been able to judge me accurately. My answer to Are you after pants or tops today?

Presumably some state gets ****** and now this app is forever more unable to store anything on iCloud. To make even the most trivial experiment on the iCloud API involves creating a brand new app.

The abject helplessness of being in the eye of an unmanned drone, the complete and utter impotence of being unable to strike back at it... that is a special kind of terror that the drones bring.

Which means that both our company, and any other company, that thought it had a sustainable model for running such a project, and at this point would probably be "pretty awesome", never started, and we are all suddenly thrust back into 2005, unable to search for code. This...

Surely someone with such a high aptitude could easily get a job elsewhere -- I guess I'm just unable to make the connection on who willingly builds this kind of stuff. I'm not trying to be intentionally obtuse, I just legitimately am curious

That will inevitably lead to worse crimes in the future as they find themselves unable to work because of that record. Alternatively the government could stop cutting funding for organisations that try to provide a place where they can go and be children without causing others trouble.

IOS 7 has made it apparent which bloggers are unable or unwilling to be fair in their criticism when it comes to Apple. The mismatched gradients on the new icons are beautiful to them, the wire frame and confusing UI elements are revolutionary, and fragmentation is simply just creating fertile ground for change.

You're not serving your customers' needs by being unable to fix problems that they are actively complaining about because you're the only engineer in your business capable of addressing them. Colin's current way of doing business is actively interfering with his goals -- assuming those goals are anything more than, "provide a cool backup service as a hobby".

Tangentially related, I am getting very, very tired of "customer service" departments using phrases like: "While we are unable to provide detailed information on how we link related accounts, please know that we have reviewed your account on the basis of the information provided and regret to inform you that it will not be reopened." This happens more frequently: Google says this all the time, based on posts here; Amazon now does the same thing; even apartment rental companies will say "you've been turned down on the basis of this report that we don't know the contents of."

Unable definitions

adjective

(usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how; "unable to get to town without a car"; "unable to obtain funds"

adjective

(usually followed by `to') lacking necessary physical or mental ability; "dyslexics are unable to learn to read adequately"; "the sun was unable to melt enough snow"

adjective

lacking in power or forcefulness; "an ineffectual ruler"; "like an unable phoenix in hot ashes"

See also: ineffective ineffectual