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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo
War
Long
Unable
Nevertheless
Became
Understand
Real
Greatly
Duration
Unfortunately
China
Japan
Regretted
Position
People who I've encountered who have had more given to them, they tend to be more disappointed and unable to carry on when something doesn't go their way, and that's not my parents.
Hong Chau
People
Parents
Way
Unable
Carry
Something
Given
More
Tend
Had
Disappointed
Go
Encountered
Them
Who
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger
War
Art
Youth
School
Parents
Poverty
Unable
Castle
Noble
Thus
Him
Became
Readily
Educate
Were
Art Of War
Feudal
Any
Which
Chivalry
Each
Whose
Received
I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.
Hugo Weaving
Character
You
Big
Think
Danger
Unable
See
Perform
Becomes
Doing
Being
Then
Should
Your
Viewer
Hard
Actor
Image
The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.
Jaggi Vasudev
Intelligence
Problem
Own
Unable
Handle
The Problem With
Humans
Saudi Arabia has been successful in preventing Houthi missiles from causing substantial damage. Yet, the inability of Saudi authorities in preventing Houthi missiles from being fired in the first place serves as an embarrassing reminder that the kingdom's leadership is unable to restrain their Iranian-backed opponent.
Jamal Khashoggi
Leadership
First
Unable
Embarrassing
Has-Been
Arabia
Kingdom
Restrain
Preventing
Fired
Reminder
Missiles
First Place
Opponent
Causing
Been
Authorities
Substantial
Being
Place
Inability
Successful
Serve
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
Damage
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
James Wolcott
King
Live
Typical
Unable
Wearing
Purple
Parody
He
Looks
Trademark
His
Vertical
Shirts
Strapped
Chair
Whose
Seat
Larry
Larry King
Belts
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.
James Wolfe
Old
Sickness
Few
France
Soldiers
Hunger
Unable
Weakened
General
Troops
Withstand
Fresh
Were
Chief
Dependence
Regular
Who
British
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau
Success
Art
Reward
Intoxication
Unable
Bad
Give
Fame
Up
Artists
Many
Why
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Jean Henri Fabre
Ignorance
Learning
Feeling
Say
Unable
At Least One
Absence
Perfect
Absolutely
Merit
Sincerity
Without
Answer
Am
Least
Confess
Appearance
For all teenagers, the Internet offers a periscope to the outside world, but it's particularly important for students who are unable to find themselves represented and understood in their immediate surroundings.
Jenna Wortham
World
Internet
Important
Teenagers
Immediate
Unable
Find
Outside
Outside World
Students
Particularly
Understood
Surroundings
Offers
Themselves
Who
If investors avoid the Treasury market, we could be unable to pay off maturing securities, which would mean an immediate default. Market participants generally agree that even a brief default would create potentially catastrophic risks to the financial system, like the meltdown of 2008.
Jerome Powell
Risks
Financial
Pay
Market
Immediate
Meltdown
System
Unable
Financial System
Securities
Would
Potentially
Could
Generally
Catastrophic
Investors
Participants
Like
Off
Maturing
Which
Mean
Create
Avoid
Agree
Even
Brief
Default
Treasury
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman
Word
Affliction
Spell
Say
Unable
Particular
Am
As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.
Joanna Going
Life
Depression
You
My Life
Definitely
Unable
Out
Bad
Feels
Reach
Making
Itself
Familiar
Experienced
Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.
John Abizaid
Day
You
Business
Change
Somebody
Looking
Way
Unable
Secure
Run
Some
Having
Environment
Knock
Over
Safe
Knowing
Always
Going
Being
Door
Plan
Shoulder
Your
Last
No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America's heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
John Delaney
Service
Alone
Travel
Sometimes
Veteran
Care
Heroes
Long
Duty
Military
Active
Too
Our
Unable
Member
High
Stay
Stays
Cost
Parking
Hospital
Hotel
Sadly
Due
Lots
Families
Afford
America
Often
Endure
While
Should
Separated
Receive
Sleep
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.
John Rawls
Finance
Money
Political
System
Unable
Constant
Paralyzed
Pursuit
Simply
Powers
Campaigns
Political System
Function
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.
Joyce Carol Oates
Best
Thought
Faulkner
Unable
Fable
About
Tender
Writers
Know
Liked
His
Fitzgerald
Scott
Experimental
Themselves
Novel
Night
It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.
Julian Treasure
School
Listening
Unable
Would
Would-Be
Some
Horror
More
Write
Main
Read
Sort
Test
Importantly
Left
Shock
Child
Story
Either
Explicitly
Much
Teach
Speaking
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
K. Eric Drexler
Today
Best
Stupid
Big
Medicine
Diffuse
Guided
Unable
Crude
Heal
Instruments
Around
Dumped
Intelligent
Get
Anything
Little
Body
Interfere
Molecules
Things
Present
For some time, destitution has been a harsh reality for asylum seekers, migrants, and refugees who are unable to access mainstream accommodation and support. Delays in the asylum and appeals process can leave them in limbo for years without money, shelter, and advice.
Katharine Viner
Time
Reality
Money
Advice
Harsh
Harsh Reality
Unable
Asylum
Has-Been
Some
Seekers
Delays
Support
Mainstream
Limbo
Without
Access
Shelter
Leave
Accommodation
Been
Years
Refugees
Process
Them
Who
Appeals
I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!
Ken Hensley
Music
Crazy
You
Style
Own
Others
Virtuoso
Musician
Unable
Classical
Classical Music
My Own
Mentioned
Write
Never
Developed
Like
Read
Learned
Because
Am
Just
Them
Play
Marriage in our Constitution is very clear that it's a man marrying a woman, largely with a view to having a natural family, and if they are unable to do that, obviously then they can adopt.
Leo Varadkar
Family
Man
Constitution
Woman
Marriage
Natural
Our
Unable
Marrying
Adopt
Having
Clear
Obviously
Very
Then
View
Largely
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
Leslie Jamison
Matter
Mind
Value
Sick
Way
Thoroughly
Unable
Find
Finishing
Put
Almost
Blind
Make
Edit
Fresh
Always
How
Still
Any
Substantive
After
Story
Either
While
Them
Flaws
Aside
Novel
Rough
Draft
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
Lewis Mumford
Vote
Survival
People
Political
Desperate
Every
Baby
Unable
Find
New
New Baby
Blind
Protest
Effective
Against
Register
Themselves
Act
Who
Biological
Extermination
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
Lion Feuchtwanger
History
Struggle
Minority
Think
Unable
Able
Determined
Both
Vast
Instincts
Majority
Blind
Make
Judgments
Led
Historian
Up
Tiny
Which
Against
Packed
Themselves
View
Who
Novelist
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