How To Use Unequal to In A Sentence
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Feeling unequal to the challenge, many officials tacitly acknowledged the power of these de facto satraps.
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The librarian contrived to put off the matter until she could make some investigations of her own, but, all the resources of the central reference room proving unequal to the task, she timidly asked the clubwoman, at her next visit, to solve the problem.
A Librarian's Open Shelf
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In some countries, especially those facing massive development challenges, even the military would be unequal to imposing legal order on a feral city.
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This is a new sort of equality - no one must be given any reason for feeling unequal to anyone else.
Times, Sunday Times
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To attack this amorphous target the Kriegsmarine applied all its resources over the winter of 1940-1, but they were unequal to the task.
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Having proven themselves unequal to the task of assessing the need for the vaccine in the first place, they are now proving themselves unequal to the task of administering it.
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His considerable discussions of sexuality are conspicuously free from prudery, so frank that he feared being read by people whose minds were unequal to the seriousness of the subject.
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Yet try as they might, their weary mounts were unequal to their demands.
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He tried to cheer her up but found himself unequal to the task.
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Many physical problems have been linked to the pervasive, ongoing stress of feeling unequal to what you have to do.
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Bush is determined to keep the dynamism vibrant and to encourage and empower the poor to take part in it, rather than to suggest that they are unequal to the task.
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Where law enforcement agencies are unequal to a task, it is the community that should rise as a man to fill in the breach.
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There was little in the way of theory or methodology to support it - merely a sense that by themselves the individual disciplines were unequal to the task of analyzing a culture in search of itself.
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I have often mentioned the grandeur, but I feel myself unequal to the task of conveying an idea of the beauty and elegance of the scene when the spiry tops of the pines are loaded with ripening seed, and the sun gives a glow to their light-green tinge, which is changing into purple, one tree more or less advanced contrasted with another.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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But the baptismal water proved unequal to the task of washing away Benjamin Disraeli's innate orientalism of deportment.
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He tried to cheer her up but found himself unequal to the task.
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You may feel unequal to the task of being a mother.
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Herodian, l.v. p. 192.] 59 Hierocles enjoyed that honor; but he would have been supplanted by one Zoticus, had he not contrived, by a potion, to enervate the powers of his rival, who, being found on trial unequal to his reputation, was driven with ignominy from the palace.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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she was unequal to the task
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It was obvious to everyone in Washington that the existing navy was unequal to the task of effective blockade.
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After this the Peloponnesians, finding that their siege engines effected nothing, and that their mound was met by the counterwork, concluded that their present means of offense were unequal to the taking of the city, and prepared for its circumvallation.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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The overanxious Punna was unequal to the task, his lack of high-level experience proving to be a major handicap.
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His father having died years before, Buck is suddenly alone, and pathetically unequal to the task.
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When the time comes for classical elements like story and character to take over, they are unequal to the task.
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When his government proved unequal to the challenges of post-cyclone relief and rehabilitation, the public demanded his replacement and Sonia had to relent.
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After this the Peloponnesians, finding that their engines effected nothing, and that their mound was met by the counterwork, concluded that their present means of offence were unequal to the taking of the city, and prepared for its circumvallation.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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unequal to the demands put upon him
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I have often mentioned the grandeur, but I feel myself unequal to the task of conveying an idea of the beauty and elegance of the scene when the spiry tops of the pines are loaded with ripening seed, and the sun gives a glow to their light-green tinge, which is changing into purple, one tree more or less advanced contrasted with another.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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Could your relationship feel unequal to her, about your needs and not hers?
The Sun
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The paternalistic style of rule is unequal to the demands of transparency and accountability that local populaces - and overseas investors - want.
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Here also are found the insignificant lightness of the pebble and the mighty lightness of the planet; while between them range the weighty masses, superior to the petty ponderability of the one, and unequal to the firmamental float of the other.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862
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There is thus an apparent increase in the velocity with the distance, but the accuracy of the coseismal lines is unequal to establishing this as a fact.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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Extremely severe pre-eclampsia also known as toxemia; women who had rheumatic fever when children, who hoped to have babies but whose hearts prove unequal to the stress of labor; etc.
Think Progress » Religious right takes aim at Condi.
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He felt unequal to the job and wished there were someone he could go to for advice.
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Many women corporators find themselves unequal to the task.
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And if you find him unequal to the task, change him and bring somebody else.
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The reality may be that any combination of politicians will be unequal to the task of managing progress in a country which relies so heavily on litigation as a means of conflict resolution.
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The warp drive, which is fine for transiting intragalactic distances—a few thousand lightyears at a time, say, on the longest hauls—is completely unequal to the distances involved in intergalactic travel.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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Two of the mercenaries have taken it upon themselves to carry him, his diminutive legs being unequal to the task of running through marketplaces.
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A country bumpkin who had stolen a bag of potatoes, perhaps, soon learned the theory of picking pockets and the art of garotting in these places, and being unequal to the former he would adopt the latter as a means of earning a livelihood.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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For literary theoreticians, it is axiomatic that language is unequal to the task of encompassing reality.