(a.) Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) PMN were found to be nonpermissive for HSV replication and were unable to bind virus in the absence of antibody.
(4) E-RFC enriched for T lymphocytes and depleted of macrophages synthesized considerable DNA in response to stimulation with PHA, but were unable to produce significant bone resorbing activity in tissue culture unless macrophages were re-added to the E-RFC.
(5) Where he has taken a stand, like on gun control after the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama was unable to achieve legislative change.
(6) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(7) We have therefore been unable to confirm that SV5 may be a major intrathecal immunogen in multiple sclerosis.
(8) The ability of ligand to stimulate its own synthesis and that of its receptor suggests the presence of an autocrine positive feedback loop, however we were unable to break this loop in the breast cancer cells by antibodies that blocked the interaction of TGF alpha with the EGF receptor.
(9) The lymph node cells obtained from the animals 1 day after desensitization were unable to produce MIF in the presence of either antigen.
(10) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(11) Therefore, 31P MR spectroscopy may be unable to quantify the cell fraction of a tumor that has radiobiologic hypoxia.
(12) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(13) The enzyme alone, solubilized and free from cytocrome b5 reductase and cytochrome b5, was unable to catalyze the desaturation of stearoyl CoA.
(14) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(15) The data suggest that the hypothalamic beta-E containing neurons were unable to adapt to nicotine's repeated effects on this system.
(16) Analogues of ATP were unable to reactivate K+-ATP channels even in the presence of Mg2+.
(17) PRL, human CG, ACTH, insulin, glucagon, and heat-inactivated TSH were unable to prevent the effect of medium replacement on dopaminergic inhibition of TSH and DA receptor binding.
(18) We were unable to detect IL-4 production by mononuclear cells and CD4+ T cell subsets suggesting that, if it is produced at all, IL-4 is produced in extremely small quantities.
(19) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(20) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
Unaccountable
Definition:
(a.) Not accountable or responsible; free from control.
(a.) Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian Donald said 5,000 children had disappeared in Italy alone, while another 1,000 were unaccounted for in Sweden .
(2) The only difference in the coding region sequence was confined to the joining region where three nucleotides, TTG, unaccountable by either V alpha or J alpha sequence, were present.
(3) If implemented, the ESM will reverse the greatest 19th-century political achievement in Europe: the transfer of the power to determine taxation and expenditure from unaccountable monarchical governments to formally accountable parliaments.
(4) think of the spines of the children, running handclap-heavy happy ads about unaccountable youth coaching standards and the “Heads Up” tackling program , a technique that works only in an NFL ad’s Smurf-like fantasyland divorced from the reality of tackling.
(5) Because there was never any obligation to pay any interest on these "loans", the total unaccounted sum is $910m.
(6) Critics complain that granting the multimillion-pound contract to a private consortium while freeing it of liability for a nuclear incident is such a poor deal for the taxpayer that it will render its new management unaccountable.
(7) Since this proportion was nearly as great as that found in the absence of directed air-flow, it seems probable that these strains were derived either from undetected sources within the section or were dispersed from the clothes of persons who entered it.Nearly one-third of the nasal acquisitions in the ward could not be related to known nasal carriers, but about one-half of these (16%) were probably ;spurious' and half of the remainder (8%) could be related to strains recovered from patients' lesions or drawsheets, leaving no more than 8% unaccounted for.
(8) [...] This money should be focused on delivering frontline services rather than lining the pockets of unaccountable charity executives."
(9) 5.05pm BST 5 mins: Even though the referee unaccountably gave England a goal-kick after that Campbell shot, Costa Rica have enjoyed most of the possession so far.
(10) Our results suggest that in humans both of these compounds may be involved in part of "unaccountable" early abortions and malformations claimed to be due to the toxicity of heavy metals.
(11) Even if TTIP is defeated, we still live in a world in which major corporations often have greater power than nation states: only organised movements that cross borders can have any hope of challenging this unaccountable dominance.
(12) Two Spanish tourists – a man and his pregnant wife – previously unaccounted for, were found after spending almost 24 hours hiding in the museum.
(13) The others remain unaccounted for after they were seized on Sunday.
(14) It has become Russia’s most powerful and unaccountable institution.
(15) The journalist Dele Giwa was not blown up so that, in 2014, the billions of dollars earmarked to fight a war on terror against a group much smaller and with fewer resources than the Nigerian army would unaccountably not suffice, and an additional $1bn would be needed to do the job.
(16) We had four groups still unaccounted for yesterday and it may be their priority is simply to get away from where they are.
(17) The association also appears to be strongest for local disease and weakest for the most invasive disease, which implies that the etiology for the more invasive endometrial cancers is largely unaccounted for by estrogen use.
(18) Successive governments have multiplied the number of acts that can be deemed criminal or misdemeanours, constructing a regime of unaccountable discretionary decisions that blight people’s lives.
(19) They are all but unaccounted for by the official figures because councils rarely designate them as statutorily homeless, even if they are indeed homeless.
(20) Nine people are now confirmed dead, and a further 19 remain unaccounted for as a slow-motion environmental catastrophe continues to unfold following the collapse of two mining dams in Brazil’s mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais.