Sentences with phrase «prove incapable»

Mabo identified the existence of a grave injustice, even if the recognition of native title has since developed in ways that may ultimately prove incapable of providing appropriate redress.

Put both sides in the hands of disinterested experts whose only duty is to the integrity of the opinion (and if they prove incapable of producing integrous, disinterested opinions, they would be dropped from the roster).

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.

Having decamped to Argentina, the pair prove incapable of nourishing one other yet equally incapable of ending the relationship that defines them.

Bobin does nothing to prove incapable of handling a big budget tentpole, but nor does he do anything to bring the wit and humor of his best work to the proceedings.

There is, of course, an even more dire anxiety that emerges when some people prove incapable of living with our differences.

The classic civil - rights movement was determined to reshape America through moral reason; distorted into a twisted parody of itself through the victim culture, it was followed by a moralism self - consciously detached from reason that would prove incapable of calling anyone, black or white, to the great cause of equal justice for all.

They could then, perhaps, collectively decide to crack down on China with coordinated tariffs, something the WTO has proven incapable of providing a forum for.

Political journalists Sydney Sharpe and Don Braid explore how the Alberta NDP ended a forty - three - year Conservative dynasty that proved incapable of adapting to forces beyond its control or understanding.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

After antitrust law proved incapable of dealing with the post-war banking and commerce conglomerates, lawmakers passed a new law to break up one of the largest.

With those who contend that «God is dead» I am at one in attesting the demise of a particular form of theistic belief which not only is unreasonable to contemporary men, but has also proved incapable of doing justice to the historic witness of the Christian community.

Thus when one of his disciples, the future Cardinal, Baronius, proved incapable of preaching on any subject other than the pains of hell, Philip refused to allow him to preach on spiritual subjects at all, and made him teach Church History instead (Baronius went on to become one of the greatest Catholic historians ever, as well as a candidate for Beatification).

But passive, disorganized neighborhoods proved incapable of converting outside resources to productive use.

Why, because we have proven ourselves incapable of handling the knowledge of good and evil not to mention incapable of following simple instructions not to eat of that tree.

It proved incapable of asking difficult questions about life's meaning in the face of suffering, much less answering them.

Apart from the early years teams he has proved incapable of building a balanced team.

For his part, United's new manager is clear that he does not intend the strengthening of a squad that proved itself incapable of both escaping a weak Champions League group and qualifying for this season's competition to end with the four «priority» signings.

Finance is the best endowed, most joined up and most powerful of the global institutional systems — and yet it proved itself incapable of moving beyond its Bretton Woods mandate.

He indicates that the police over the years have proven incapable of handling some security concerns of the party the need for the NPP to take charge of its internal security.

And Labour has proved itself incapable of protecting working class communities from the frenzy of free market dogma which has dominated Westminster since the 1980s.

As a leader, he's proved incapable of inspiring New Yorkers to pull together in a crisis.

«The EU is an institution rooted in the past and is proving incapable of reforming to meet the big technological, demographic and economic challenges of our time.

The prime minister was clearly on the same setting as she was during the election - nodding pointlessly, starting each answer with a restatement of things everyone knows to be true, proving incapable of intellectual or emotional engagement, issuing lame platitudes, insisting on things so stupid she must surely know they are false.

He reiterated that his outfit in consultation with the Ministry of Roads and Highways will decide the termination of MAWUMS construction limited since they have proven incapable of executing the contract awarded them.

My conviction is rhat maybe the president is not prevy to this very important ugly situation and l take this opportunity to officially inform his Excellency John Dramani Mahama whose wife is from the town at the centre of this financial mess, Nkoranza as a matter of urgency resolve this issue as soon as possible because officials of the bank of ghana have proven incapable of handling such sensitive issue.

The Press Complaints Commission has proved itself incapable of correcting even blatant falsification of scientific evidence.

Labour have proved incapable of implementing new technology, or safeguarding existing sources of data satisfactorily.

«The Democrats and Republicans have proved themselves incapable of being an honest broker for peace,» said Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins.

Razor - wire once more criss - crosses the continent, historic tensions between nations such as Greece and Germany have resurfaced in ugly ways and the EU is proving incapable of dealing with the current crises in Libya and Syria.»

When Shockley yelled like a spoiled child and proved incapable of bringing quality products to market, many of these bright minds — including Intel founder Gordon Moore — abandoned their supposed guru.

Similarly, a study of «therapeutic touch» published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that practitioners who insisted they could sense a patient's «energy field» proved incapable of even sensing the presence or absence of a test subject's hand.

Frankly, had I been married to a man and given him children, then proven incapable of getting child support from him, I would be too ashamed to get publicly annoyed with a woman who didn't have to marry a man to get her to pay the bills.

He proves incapable of aping the Rocky music, which seems pretty simple.

Worst of all, Macdonald is forced to carry much of the dramatic weight of the second half of «Every Secret Thing» and she proves incapable of doing so.

While some in the cast, MacLachlan and Diane Venora (playing Gertrude) in particular, nimbly handle their roles and the Bard's words, they are, of course, secondary to the prince of Denmark himself, and Hawke proves incapable of handling the task.

For those of us who grew up playing games like Punch - Out, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, and Street Fighter 2, this is film's love letter to video games, or perhaps its long overdue apology, since Hollywood has proven incapable of successfully adapting a game franchise.

But parochial schools are one of the largest (if not the largest) alternatives to the American public - education system, and their steady decline inordinately affects urban low - income minorities who would otherwise be left at the mercy of public schools that have proven incapable of educating them.

«For a decade or more, SED and its vendors have proved themselves incapable of creating valid, well - designed, non-abusive exams that can be reliably used for diagnostic purposes or to track trends in student achievement over time,» said Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters.

Yet Ravitch has proven incapable of such decency or logical thinking.

The program was abandoned when the system proved incapable of functioning in it's intended role.

Is she saying the Federal Trade Commission has proven itself incapable of regulating the retail sales segment of the automotive industry, and so the power to do so must now be transferred to the CFPB?

«The big houses proved incapable of looking at the future.

And how sensible can it be to lend to somebody who's proved incapable of honouring a liability / financial contract, or is clearly buying a house that's unaffordable?

More fool me... even in my original write - up, I identified Newmark's fatal weakness — its Electronic division, which in the last decade has proved incapable of generating revenue growth (despite reporting numerous new contract wins), has consumed ridiculous amounts of balance sheet capital, and has allowed a 23 % adjusted EBIT margin to steadily erode & turn into losses.

Since Norish has proved incapable of improving profitability here, the only logical plan is to now sell this division.

On numerous occasions they failed to notice the enemies surrounding them, and when they did she proved incapable of actually killing them.

Government has proved itself incapable of developing a consistent energy plan that would guide the private sector to making decisions that fit with the plan.

One reason for this deficiency may be because global models have so far proven incapable of capturing the complex relationship between cyclone activity and intraseasonal oscillations in the tropical atmosphere.

In Nor - Man, the categorical approach proved incapable of resolving a conflict between a question of general law and one of fact, policy, and discretion.