• In the magnificent city, they meet Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a painter who is incapable of spending a night alone.

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  • Most defence analysts think North Korea, with its economy on the brink of collapse and much of its population underfed, is incapable of a sustained attack.

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  • But then again, expecting leadership on how to avert the looming entitlements tsunami from a president incapable of even submitting a budget on time probably is expecting way too much.

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  • Studies of welfare reform in the states show a similar picture: there is a hard-core group of mothers who are simply incapable of keeping a job, often because of substance abuse.

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  • While I do think a recovery plan is needed, and that any recovery plan will require a Greek bailout, I also believe that if Greeks do not want to pay the necessary taxes to sustain a very large public sector and if Greek officials are incapable of undoing a culture of corruption, any bailout will only stem the bleeding.

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  • As he and his Russian friends are well aware, his ethnic-Albanian adversaries a disorganised but fast-growing force may be incapable of delivering a ceasefire, even if they wanted one.

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  • In a bitterly ironic twist, many foreign observers argue that Cambodia is still incapable of mounting a properly constituted local tribunal for Pol Pot's surviving Khmer Rouge lieutenants.

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  • At the end of the day he looks incapable of creating a sense of stability.

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  • However, Gill said the state government was incapable of devising a strategy to tackle the Maoist threat.

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  • Yet ICANN is proving itself incapable of creating a workable alternative, and NSI meanwhile remains firmly in control.

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  • Not only were England incapable of taking a wicket, but Smith and Amla scored uncomfortably quickly for Andrew Strauss.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

  • Career diplomats might be thought congenitally incapable of planning a war against anyone.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign policy

  • Even though many in Lebanon support that demand, the Beirut government has proven incapable of reaching a consensus on the issue.

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  • The stalled U.S. economy is even worrying the folks at Google, the Internet heavyweight that has seemed incapable of making a wrong move.

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  • Even if their English is good enough to read technical journals and score high on the TOEFL, they're often incapable of writing a non-technical essay.

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  • However, it seems equally clear that it is criminal to take advantage of someone who is so drunk that they are clearly incapable of making a decision.

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  • The reason given for dissolving parliament was that King Abdullah judged it incapable of drafting a fairer electoral law in time for the election due in November.

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  • He was responding to criticism from Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray who said the first minister was "incapable of taking a decision" on whether Scotland should have one police force.

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  • David Bernstein articulately stated how after numerous arguments at lower court levels to prepare, they are still utterly incapable of presenting a valid limiting principal or constitutional merit for the mandate.

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  • By not thinking the Arab people incapable of establishing a free society, the democratic nations of the world will begin to create the real "New Middle East" that so many of us can still dream about.

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  • But when I meet teachers who can't spell, who are incapable of drafting a simple letter to parents without making basic mistakes in grammar and punctuation, I have to wonder exactly what my children are being taught.

    BBC: School tests: Do changes go far enough?

  • Even though such an allied missile defense system will be incapable of stopping a concerted Russian attack, Moscow is now vowing to abrogate the INF Treaty and attack the Poles and Czechs should they go ahead with this deployment.

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  • The setup is the same: a group of zombie-immune survivors (the same group, plus one) are caught on an island full of dangerous monsters and idiotic NPCs incapable of moving a few feet to retrieve whatever item they desperately need to survive.

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  • Leszek Miller, their artful leader, is hopeful that victory in November's presidential election and in the general election due by 2001 will help pull Poland to the left for years to come not least because Solidarity, a loose alliance of 40 or so parties, is incapable of merging into a single party.

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  • And it's an issue that we know from our own experience cannot be ignored and that's why I feel very strongly that what we're tackling here is that we're trying to fool ourselves that nobody ever is at risk of suicide when they're pregnant or that somehow they are incapable of making a decision as to the outcome of their dilemma.

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  • BATS's IPO showed a stock exchange incapable of trading its own stock a fact that could have prompted fund managers to go elsewhere for their trades.

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  • She had told him an impersonal interviewer, a stranger doing research what she was incapable of telling me, a Scandinavian who looked too much like one of her own countrymen.

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  • But no law of nature says a democracy is incapable of supporting terrorism, so even if every Islamic capital were to become a kind of Westminster with curlicues, the objective of suppressing terrorism might still find its death in the inadequacy of the premise.

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  • Is he up to the task of fundamentally reforming an authoritarian political machine that despite its accomplishments in restoring stability, a modicum of prosperity and international respect after the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years seems incapable of shaping Russia into a truly modern society?

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  • Sadly, under current circumstances the FAA is incapable of bringing such a project to fruition.

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