not able

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, I was not able to get an answer from Peacock about whether or not the amount of salmon available and the placement on the table was strategic.

From Salon

Physically, he is not able to live independently, but was or is pretty sharp mentally.

From MarketWatch

"We were not able to get supplies in. We had to remove our staff for their own safety," she said, after stepping off the first UN flight to Khartoum since the war began on Thursday.

From Barron's

“The extent to which Uber is or is not able to prop up these smaller players against Waymo in Dallas over the next 12-24 months will be important signposts of evidence about whether Uber could be successful in scaling competitors vs Waymo,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal

Markets in the region have largely taken in stride the judges' announcement that the US president was not able to use a certain act to impose his sweeping levies, with some countries benefiting from the lower tolls he later unveiled under a separate authority.

From Barron's