Examples of use of unable to
1. -- Homegrown industries, especially in textiles and plastics, shut down unable to complete with US giants.
2. However, Serrano Gutiérrez said that federal officials have so far been unable to pinpoint where the trade is most active.
3. He also hinted he would push for reforms that the Fox government has so far been unable to achieve due to opposition in Congress.
4. Here I received my first inkling of the fate of the Jewish people; the stories my parents had told me about the Holocaust also deeply disturbed me, although I was unable to fully understand them at the time.
5. Wire services June 26, 2005 Unable to predict, much less prevent, the earthquakes that periodically threaten the nation, Mexican officials have decided to issue "catastrophe bonds" as a way of funding relief efforts after future quakes without busting the budget.