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Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures ... and that generates fear and insecurity and an inability to empathize with the other side.

We just couldn't handle their press and we shot terrible. I thought our shooting and the inability to handle the press were the keys to the game. The first three minutes of the third quarter made a huge difference, too.

We get the game where we have the opportunity to win it, then we turn it over. The turnovers in the second half I thought killed us - along with our inability to make shots.

While a near-term supply disruption from Venezuela does not seem likely, the country's inability to meet its OPEC quota makes the government famously hawkish when it comes to defending an oil price floor for the group. This fact, along with a lack of foreign investment in the Venezuelan energy sector, should be seen as bullish factors for global oil prices. We do not see this changing until such time as the government adopts more favorable policies towards foreign oil companies.

While characterized as voluntary, we believe his departure is likely related to Gateway's inability to reinvigorate its professional and direct businesses despite significant headway in retail, which has lower margins.

We couldn't guard their big kid. Our inexperience in the post really hurt us, and that combined with our inability to make shots ... before you know it, we're down 20.

We had good leads in both halves and we couldn't complete either half. It came down to our inability to keep them off the off glass and the turnover-assist ratio.

We got good looks, but it was our inability to make the big play or get the big rebound that stopped us.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.

We're just too careless with the basketball. We don't value the ball enough, but a lot of that was Dave's defense. The difference was really their pressure and our inability to take care of the ball.

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Yesterday's good rate may well be unobtainable tomorrow -- leading to unpredictable hotel coasts and, occasionally, an inability to obtain a suitable room,

We did get to the line a lot, but our inability to put them in really cost us. We played hard enough to win, but we didn't play good enough to win.

This program of actions is a last resort forced upon us by the continuing failure of the Swiss government to participate in the negotiations or even support an agreement, and by the inability of the Swiss banks to bridge the small gap between them and the class-action plaintiffs,

We have a scholarship program that provides financial assistance to those who need it and never turn people away due to their inability to pay set fees. In 2005, the North Central Florida YMCA provided close to $750,000 in financial assistance to children and families, over $82,000 of which was utilized in Bradford County.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

We are left with a picture of a White House that was plagued by the fog of war. The committee is likely to find a disturbing inability by the White House to de-conflict and analyze information ? and that had consequences.

We are concerned about the inability thus far of Bolivia's new president to articulate whether or not he will allow coca eradication and US counter-narcotics assistance to continue.

We played with that $600 level. I think the market's inability to get back above it early today - with the weaker energy and stronger dollar - all contributed to a little profit-taking.

The department has invested large amounts of resources in facilities, scholarships and coaches in our Olympic sports. The inability to host NCAA competition would have an unbelievably negative effect on our programs.

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.

MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

There are a lot of people in the Middle East who believe our weakness is our inability to stay the course, and they believe that two casualties today, two casualties tomorrow, four the next day, will eventually drive us out,

We're trying to jump-start the mobile Internet revolution, and our trials with users show us that when people download the browser they begin using the Web on their handsets more frequently. The biggest obstacle in growing use of the mobile Web to this point is the inability of other browsers to convert sites into something people are willing to look at, and that's what we believe the browser does best.

We've written for years that basically John Reed, as a result of inability to keep top management, has hurt the company's ability to generate good solid businesses, ... I'm relieved that Sandy Weill will now be running the company, as I'm sure investors will be.

When combined with the run-up in employee health-care costs, ... the inability to raise selling prices is the single most important reason that job growth has been lagging so much during this recovery.

This whole miles-for-merchandise mini-movement is being forced onto the airlines by their own inability to make good on the promise of free award seats.

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.

(We're) not hitting outside shots ? again. ( Yao Ming ) is making great, pinpoint passes to us. We had great spacing. It's the inability to consistently knock down outside shots.

We understand you communicated with us by calling several different locations. Our inability to talk has been a concern for us as it's been for you.

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

We accept full responsibility. Our inability to timely respond to our customers is unacceptable.

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.

Whether (Tyco's) life as a short-seller's clay pigeon has been the driver or whether the company's own inability to make the case clearly enough has been the culprit, (Tyco) now is in a major league quandary,

With Tyree's speed and my inability to block, it kind of limits the interior blocking to some degree, ... From the shotgun, all he has to do is read the defensive end on running plays and the free safety on passing plays.

We've already lost much of the ambition of the Doha round. It's not an ambitious round. There is a generalized inability to make deals, to take political pain back home.

This suggests that while certain genetic factors place an individual at risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis, lung injury substantially contributes to the disease. That finding raises the possibility that an intrinsic inability to repair injured lung tissue may be the fundamental biologic defect that ultimately results in fibrosis and lung collapse.

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

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.

Customers who have an inability to pay but have been working with us through the winter need to contact us to make sure we are on the same page. If they've been making an effort to pay, we'll work with those customers.

What is hard for us to understand well, and hard for me to explain to Secretary (of State Colin) Powell, is the inability to get a phone call through to the aircraft commander or to talk to the crew.

What really made the difference was our inability to finish on our eight-meter chances. That's the difference between tying the game and taking the lead.

Every game is do or die, basically, right now. With our inability to win on the road, it's tough to be a top team when the top teams in our league have big road wins.

At the very bottom of hell, there's no fire, no brimstone, just the utter inability to take action...Is taking away your ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want, the very worst punishment you can imagine?

I've been impressed with the government in certain cases, but these companies' inability to control their environment is very real, and this will keep the market very volatile.

It would be great to think that this is the start of an 8-2 season, so we've got to get ready to win our next eight games. The things that didn't get done tonight are some of the same mistakes we've been making all season. We had an inability to tackle, dropped passes early and our protection of our quarterback broke down. A lot of those things have to do with our intensity, and that's my jobto motivate these guys.

the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there.

The total lack of communication. The inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was occurring there, ... We had to actually take teams out yesterday because of the dangerous situation they were in. That's very frustrating not only to me but those teams. Those medical teams want to help save lives and the thugs and the others that are causing the problem are actually making it more difficult. So we had to pull them out for a while. They want to go back in. They're going back in.

Transition and turnovers were key to this game. It really came down to our inability to keep them off the glass, and the turnover ratio.

While the magnitude is troublesome, the inability to compute and compare issue information is alarming.

While voracious consumer spending has helped maintain overall economic strength, companies are still hampered by stiff pricing competition from abroad, ... The inability to raise prices has cut into corporate profits, which, in turn, has most certainly contributed to increased job cutting.

The suffering I think is important to focus on is the suffering in silence,... the inability to scream out in pain.

The story of our season really against these guys has been our inability to stay out of the penalty box. It's tough to play against a team like that.

These fabricated and outrageous charges come from an individual whom Madison Square Garden fired because of an inability to fulfill professional responsibilities and who is now seeking a financial windfall.

These fabricated and outrageous charges come from an individual whom MSG fired because of an inability to fulfill professional responsibilities and who is now seeking a financial windfall. We have always been proud of how our employees are treated, as evidenced by the fact that we have consistently taken appropriate action when employees have engaged in inappropriate behavior. We will fight these outrageous charges and defend our employees from baseless allegations intended to embarrass and harm them.

The senator's childish need for attention masks his stark inability to get things done in the Legislature for his constituents.

When you have as many things happen bad as have happened the last few years, I thought that was one thing they had to overcome, ... And they did that, they overcame the talk about the turnovers in the game and their inability to run or stop the run.

We've got to establish play (tonight). We have to have a little more composure with the puck. Whether it's bad luck on a bouncing puck or our inability to control it, we have to be better.

I've often said the greatest equalizer in college basketball is the 3-point line. They outscored us by 12 from the 3-point line. Our inability to limit them to one shot and inability to guard the 3-point line cost us. Anytime a team can come into your building and shoot 53 percent from the field and 47 percent from the 3-point line, you have to have a very, very good night on offense.

The run that really determined the game was to start the second half. Their easy baskets off turnovers and our inability to defend them. And then our ability to stay out of our way a lot of times.

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus.

The reason for the loss wasn't our inability to score. We're scoring a lot of runs, we're just giving up too many also.

We did a good job of taking advantage of their inability to throw strikes.

We did a lot of things to put ourselves in position to win, but we just can't seem to make the big plays right now. The biggest problem we had was an inability to score runs. We only struck out four times in 21 plate appearances, which tells me we are putting the bat on the ball, but we are hitting it right at people.

really a great deal of intolerance for their being stuck in the water and their inability to change.

No question, our inability to handle their pressure was the difference. I'm not taking anything away from Michigan State. But we didn't make very good decisions.

Some people are better skilled at managing situations. A lot of times it is the inability to deal with those life events that can be a trigger for anger.

Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.

The reason they did that is because of Chiron's inability to execute.

The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with its allies, or its inability to contribute. In the end it will join out of the necessity created by a pattern of uncertainty and indecision. It will not join as a leader but unnoticed at the back of the parade.

So the longer this goes, the more pleased the terrorists would be because it gives them the opportunity to intervene with acts of violence and, secondly, because they will claim it is an illustration of the inability of politicians in Iraq to come together.

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

Once these units return, it's important that they have the equipment to train and perform their vital military missions, ... The lack of equipment has not yet resulted in an inability to respond ... but it does not take much imagination to foresee a contingency where there could be negative impacts.

All around worst games of the season, ... Mental mistakes, inability to pass and no transition were all factors in the Royals' loss.

All around worst games of the season. Mental mistakes, inability to pass and no transition were all factors in the Royals' loss.

That's what's haunted us all year, the inability to score goals.

a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.

Although the fact that Cott is facing higher packaging costs per se is not news, the fact that the company at this point sees an inability to manage through this for the next few quarters is.

They think the worst is over, but we have plenty to go. We have disease and the inability to get sustenance to them food and water and they have no sanitary facilities. They have to get out.

Probably the most disappointing thing was our inability to run the ball, ... We have to be able to run the ball to be good.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

Tech companies are frustrated with equity analysts and their inability to get beyond the quarterly cycles. Many companies feel their growth strategies are not being actively rewarded.

Our defense kept us in the game when we really had an inability to score. When you go on the road you've got to be able to rely on your defense.

There's no question that since Katrina, there have been some missteps that have shaped the president's inability to get a message out. These are no one person's fault. But they happened. And now it's time to get back on the offensive.

This administration made mistakes, the previous administration made mistakes. But the inability of this administration and of the national security adviser to admit that mistakes were made makes us fear that we will make future mistakes.

This game was all about the 3-point line and our inability to guard it.

This indicates, I think, the end product of a culture of cover-up and an inability of the ministry to properly investigate itself.

Affordability declines are worrisome, but consistent with strong markets for the past 30 years. More troublesome is the inability to find affordable starter homes.

In a rapidly evolving environment such as that which we are facing in the global energy markets, the inability to craft and implement appropriate policy measures leaves fiscal and external balances exposed. This could ultimately threaten to undo the macroeconomic stability achieved in recent years.