inability

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The dispute stems from what Wilson sees as a widening gap between lululemon’s creative engine and what he says is the board’s inability to translate the brand’s strengths into sustained success.

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That’s the idea that investors have to be paid a higher return on private assets as compensation for the inability to trade in and out of them.

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Moscow’s inability to secure a swift victory against both Ukraine and then Prigozhin, despite multibillion-dollar upgrades to its military, suggested to Chinese leaders that ambitious modernization doesn’t automatically produce a formidable fighting force.

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Clinically, accommodation should follow demonstrated functional impairment: an inability to perform essential tasks even with reasonable support.

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The inability or unwillingness on the part of hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes to boost their productivity is what turns Germany’s demographic transformation into a crisis.

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