As a result, many people no longer understand themselves, which makes it hard for them to understand others.

It wasn't that they couldn't develop cities.

However, we are far from powerless to prepare for and mitigate the impact of disasters.

People were powerless in face of the calamity they should not have been.

The available data show that over 47 000 people were made incapable by war.

Yet China s leaders remain incapable of seeming to abandon the North, no matter how odious its behavior.

After more than a decade in power, Russia s leaders are no longer capable of pursuing better polices.

The men were not uneducated, but they were unable to cope with the freedoms of contemporary women.

However, the Committee is concerned that discrimination is still present against some ethnic groups, such as Brazilians of African descent, in some cultural and social practices and by the persistent level of unequal social development in regions, specifically in the North and Northeast regions, which in many instances amount to discrimination.

Without a stimulating family or family like setting, such children cannot develop their full potential.

Apparently, the rate of change has been too rapid for Chinese leaders to adjust to it.

Many 16, 17 and 18 year olds, in particular, are unable to find work.

In the former mother country of Marxism Leninism, the leaders still don t seem to understand dialectics.

So it is no wonder that the Arabs, especially the Palestinians, remain unable to comprehend, existentially or morally, what has befallen them.

Voters were unable to choose between the incumbent and the opposition, because the same centrist parties were in office all the time.

This is one of the main reasons why so many people are unable to take advantage of the many opportunities available in Africa.

This, along with the medical model, are the models most used by non disabled people to define and explain disability.

People thought that was crazy. A coat on a fence would make them balk, shadows would make them balk, a hose on the floor ...

Today, Europeans cannot even agree on the nature of the Russian regime, let alone what policy to adopt towards it.

So, while we understand very well what may have produced the financial crisis, we find ourselves helpless to draw usable lessons from it.

If German exporters can t compete at 1.50 euros to the dollar, what chances do French exporters have?

Yet even that elementary wisdom has never occurred to traditional ruling elites too set in their myopic and arrogant ways.

It was alleged, too, that coercion was being used to exact repayment, leaving victims with no way out but to end their own lives.

In the Netherlands, older women in particular increasingly find themselves having to care for infirm parents, sick partners or other family members.

Moving and buying a new apartment in a different place is almost impossible, which makes Russian workers highly immobile.

And I think that comes from connecting with nature, connecting with the energy of life, because we're all disabled in some way on the planet spiritually, mentally or physically.

People with strokes and lesions in the emotion processing parts of the brain are not super smart, they're actually sometimes quite helpless.

They were so non transparent and complex that neither Wall Street nor the ratings agencies could properly assess them.

They can solve complex puzzles that stump most two year old humans.

Our national politicians, increasingly powerless to cope with serious crises, are suspected, often with good reason, of simply looking after their own interests.

That is, in developing countries, unless the citizens are fed, healthy and receive basic education, they will not be capable of or interested in demanding a renewed public administration.

Consumed with their test of wills, they are unable to make well informed and nuanced decisions in their dealings with outsiders.

Yet, despite 25 years of intense investment in structural biology, we remain unable to move from understanding molecules to an understanding of whole systems.

If only one of these remedies were adopted, the world would be a safer and happier place, and taxpayers would no longer be at risk of bailing out feckless financiers.

Without skills, people find themselves locked out of productive, rewarding economic activities, leaving them unable to meet their needs for housing, healthcare and nutrition.

We boo, we spread rake, unable to access institutional tools for initiating change. She was talking about politics, but it can apply just as easily to parenting. 6.

But anxieties about being swamped by foreigners and dominated by outside powers are more acute in smaller countries, whose political elites seem particularly impotent.

When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and hubristic visions can pose a grave danger.

BERKELEY Across the North Atlantic region, central bankers and governments seem, for the most part, helpless in restoring full employment to their economies.

By this model, based on US Census data, there are 1.2 billion people in the world who consider themselves to have a disability.

The Committee also welcomes the fact that, according to law 10.406 02, indigenous people are no longer considered relatively incapable citizens . It also welcomes the efforts made by the State party to stimulate bilingual education.

A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.

Many who want to refinance their mortgages still cannot, because they are underwater (owing more on their mortgages than the underlying property is worth).

Protectionists in the United States and Europe, itching to slap huge punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, have been caught flat footed.

In the past, weather insurance could not manage a farmer s risk effectively because we could not measure well enough the effects of weather on crops.