How To Use Unfit In A Sentence
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They labeled him unfit to work here
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The most obvious of these powers is that of the demolition and clearance of housing that is deemed unfit for human habitation.
Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
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They are wholly unfitted, by temperament and training, for the cut-throat, hard-nosed commercial environment in which they now find themselves.
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Several persons unfit to hold public office were pitchforked into high office.
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This induced those airs, and a love to those diversions, which make a young widow, of so lively a turn, the unfittest tutoress in the world, even to her own daughter.
Clarissa Harlowe
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People are all out of condition and unfit.
The Sun
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He was excused as physically unfit for duty.
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When possible, include any free standing or unfitted piece of furniture into the design no matter what theme you are trying to create.
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Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box.
Courts and Criminals
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He was expecting the striker to be passed unfit by doctors before flying back to England.
The Sun
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As for those limitations of the "feminine mind" which render her unfit to consider the victuallage of a nation, or the justice of a tax on sugar; it hardly seems as if the charge need be taken seriously.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
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By retiring officers unfit for active service, this group attempted to revolutionize the navy's traditional system of promotion.
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Our justice system is unfit for purpose.
The Sun
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The title is in honour of Australia’s first female deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, jibe from the enlightened Mr Heffernan – stating she was unfit for leadership because she was” deliberately barren”.
Archive 2008-09-01
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Our justice system is unfit for purpose.
The Sun
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They also unequivocally demonstrate that noticeable change can emerge on its own by summing up the steady unnoticeable work of incremental deletions of the unfit.
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I went from an unfit person to a fit person and so can you!
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The court claims she is an unfit mother.
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The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
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He's using reclaimed drainage water, but he suspects it's infused with multiple salts and trace elements - rendering it unfit for his just-emerging, tender crop of ornamental sunflowers.
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He was expecting the striker to be passed unfit by doctors before flying back to England.
The Sun
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Where houses are unfit for human habitation there is a clear risk to the health of the occupants.
Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
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Campaigners say just one litre can make a million litres of fresh water unfit to drink.
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Farmers had been using underground water to irrigate cotton and paddy crops even though underground water was unfit for agricultural use due to high fluoride contents.
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Thou mayst do this if thou wilt, pater non deperit filiam, nec frater sororem, a father dotes not on his own daughter, a brother on a sister; and why? because it is unnatural, unlawful, unfit.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The same runoff going into the river, diluted with 73 percent less water, would have seriously deteriorated water quality until it was unfit for human contact.
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He accused the opposition party of being unfit to govern.
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Caravan owners have been warned that a recent police survey of vehicles revealed many were dangerously overloaded and unfit for the road.
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The recent survey found that 20 per cent of private-rented dwellings are unfit for human habitation.
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Nonetheless, it seems that the millennia-old roundhouse, within the course of a single century, came to be seen as socially unfitting, and that everyone who could, rebuilt their houses in an altogether new way.
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From the untameableness of this and other creatures we may infer how unfit we are to give law to Providence, who cannot give law even to a wild ass's colt.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Conversely, unfit people have smaller brains and reduced cognitive skills.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any unit will have a small proportion of its strength unfit for duty at any given time.
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War
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He pronounced me unfit to be operated upon.
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It's barbaric and unfitting of a young lady like you.
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It would, he thought with a smile, be most unfitting to explode on landing under the circumstances.
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The houses were judged to be unfit for human occupation.
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His constant vacillation made him an unfit administrator.
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If he is a driving instructor then he's clearly unfit for that role.
The Sun
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We know the air's unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit and watch our teevees while some local newscaster tells us today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it is supposed to be.
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The goal of suppressing the fecundity of the 'unfit' was further enabled by increasingly survivable forms of surgical sterilization.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He was going to take them to court, declare them perverts, unfit to raise a child.
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The meat was declared unfit for human consumption.
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It is thought only half a million are seriously disabled and unfit to work.
The Sun
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People are all out of condition and unfit.
The Sun
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There has been for some time, a general consensus that ‘large’ people are unfit, unhealthy, fat and slobby because they eat too much.
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The recent survey found that 20 per cent of private-rented dwellings are unfit for human habitation.
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The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
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This is a result of an unhealthy lifestyle, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, smoking and being physically unfit.
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It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.
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Hubbard was declared mentally unfit to stand trial.
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Powell was declared unfit for active service.
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This conduct was outrageous and confirms he is demonstrably unfit for office.
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The 51-year-old has been told by a West Yorkshire police medical officer that he is unfit for front line duties.
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Also, coca farmers are migrating up mountainsides, avoiding the police but causing massive soil erosion and deforestation problems in mountainous areas unfit for intense cultivation.
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I am simply too incompetent, too inexperienced and too unfit to be let anywhere near anything you can fall off.
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It became the most effective typological tool to blacken the Irish character and, through association, declare it unfit for self-government.
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It is a tenet of impeachment law that we don't impeach judges for their decisions, but rather for conduct which makes them unfit to serve.
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For music to be beautiful, the voices must not only be true, clear, and distinct from one another, but also united together in such a way that there may arise a just consonance and harmony which is not unfitly termed a discordant harmony or rather harmonious discord.
Treatise on the Love of God
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Mr Abel's doctor has said he is unfit to travel.
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Thus, so much of every product as is rendered by excessive abundance inconsumable, becomes useless, valueless, unexchangeable, -- consequently, unfit to be given in payment for any thing whatever, and is no longer a product.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
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It has since been demolished - unfit for human habitation!
Times, Sunday Times
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Call this palliation, or what you will; but if you see not the difference, you are blind; and a very unfit judge for yourself, much more unfit to be a censurer of me.
Pamela
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But more alarmingly, a planned fraud trial was scrapped because Burke was deemed mentally unfit to appear in the dock.
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She is unfit for such a senior position.
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Too many of those called to the recruiting offices were deemed unfit for duty.
The Sun
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The location is directly opposite the gasholder works, on land that the HSE believes is unfit for housing and schools
The John Roan Campaign
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Was I (horrors) the pathetically unfit nonathlete battering himself against a force of nature that can pulverize rock into sand, sink impregnable ocean liners and swallow late-thirtyish guys like me for breakfast?
Surf's Up!
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The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
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His mother on discovering this note pinned to her chair gave way to very natural alarm and rushed upstairs to her darling, with whom she remonstrated in terms deservedly severe, pointing out the folly and wickedness of self-destruction and urging that such thoughts were unfit for one of his tender years, for he was then barely thirteen.
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects
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Inevitably, some critics fulminated that boarding schools were turning our girls unfit to be wives and mothers.
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The meat was condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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The court also has a power to appoint new trustees and to remove a trustee for unfitness or misconduct.
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In August, the landlord removed the entire stairwell, prompting City of Montreal building inspectors to declare her apartment unfit for habitation.
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A heat of about 32 [degrees] Reaumur, constantly vaporizing the different fluids the circulation of which sustains life, the diminution they undergo would unfit them for their purposes, if they were not renewed and refreshed.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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All incapacity benefit claimants will be forced to undergo tests to prove that they are unfit to work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the wine was unfit for human consumption.
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If he is a driving instructor then he's clearly unfit for that role.
The Sun
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Existing houses are becoming totally unfit for human habitation.
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an unfit parent
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I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
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A minute discussion of this subject would be a serious task; but if, as before, I am to give only an outline, the subject may not unfitly be summed up as follows.
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We put molasses in it, but that helped it very little; we added a pickle, yet the alkali was the prominent taste and so it was unfit for drinking.
Roughing It
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The hawk-eyed Food and Drug Administration deems lung - a common ingredient in haggis - to be unfit for human consumption.
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Until I was 11 years old we lived next door to the surgery, which was purpose built although rather unfit for its function.
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spiritualty" are the only proper persons to teach doctrine, and then to act as if they were unfit to judge of doctrine.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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As opposed to McCain's untired, bipartisan accusation that Obama is "unfit to serve.
McCain Responds: Americans Have "Every Reason To Doubt" Whether Obama Can Keep Us Safe
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In comparing an unfit former athlete to an unfit nonathlete, I have found that the former athlete always gets into shape perhaps two to three times more quickly than the nonathletic person.
Hold it!
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An estimated 60,000 children in Yorkshire and Humberside are living in homes classified as being unfit for human habitation, a leading housing charity has warned.
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He makes it according to the beauty of a man, in comely proportion, with those limbs and lineaments that are the beauty of a man, but are altogether unfit to represent the beauty of the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger.
The Life of John Milton
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We know of Jonson's unseemly bodily figure, his 'ambling' gait, which rendered him unfit for the stage.
Shakspere and Montaigne
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The food was declared unfit for human consumption.
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The lower ranges are for unfit or frail persons who are just beginning an exercise program.
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If your tent is faulty or unfit for normal use you are entitled to a refund if you act quickly.
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‘It is unfit for human habitation and is being boarded up on the grounds of public health,’ said the 35-year-old.
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Missing a murder and one giant clue, he is clearly unfit for promotion.
Times, Sunday Times
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They wrote down the numbers of the ones they found to be physically unfit, and ordered them to be sent to the crematory.
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These new proposals should go a long way to help tackle problems of unfitness and disrepair which are all too common in this sector.
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The only fear is test in our overanxiety we give them a degree of independence for which they are unfit, thereby inviting reaction and disaster.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
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Thinks I to myself, this is what Mr. Hume would have, in the Commons House, called jobbery, and a poor kind of job it turned out; for, on inspecting the lime juice at Port Royal, some of it was condemned as unfit for use.
A Sailor of King George
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The youth groups planned to ‘sweep’ books they deem unfitting from bookstore shelves and destroy them.
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These personal attacks are unfitting for a president, and unacceptable for a world leader.
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However, the manifold blunders and petty jealousies of this official are now producing such grievous results that his downfall is almost certain, and if his removal in disgrace from a position which he has proved himself totally unfit for be considered a satisfaction to those he has injured, why then I, among others, am morally assured of that amount of vengeance, at least.
The Civil War In America
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The woman charged with murder was said to be mad and unfit to plead.
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They were utterly unfit to govern America.
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Some of the genes that gives the mouse its common colours or markings also makes the mouse sick, or unfit to live. These genes are called semi-lethal or lethal.
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Will it not follow that he is so, if he engage us to receive a doctrine that gives liberty to sin, or by which we are so far from being justified that we remain impure sinners, and unfit to be conversed with?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Even the ground water is unfit for drinking due to large-scale application of fertilizers, pesticides and agrochemicals in the tea gardens.
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For if genuinely unfit, the fact was speedily demonstrated; whereas if merely shamming, discovery overtook him with a certainty that wrote "finis" to his last hope.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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The family has been staying in emergency accommodation because their house is unfit for habitation.
The Sun
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In Kyoto, the traditionalists fought against his design as unfitting for Japan's ancient spiritual center.
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Now no man who has a certain duty to perform, can lawfully do that which renders him unfit for that duty.
Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
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For, as I said before, if it were unfitting for Him thus to indwell the part, it would be equally so for Him to exist within the whole.
On the Incarnation
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This injury left him unfit for military service but did not seem to affect his martial ability.
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Luxury hotels london saw unmedical leibnizian cistern in a treed unfitting sky with sanguification thickset super crystallite menyanthes and agamogenetic.
Rational Review
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It is an example of humans as savage wild animals unfit for any sort of role in society and ripe for replacement by machinery.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is thought only half a million are seriously disabled and unfit to work.
The Sun
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As a doctor, I am often asked why people buy computer hardware that turns out to be totally unfit for the purpose for which it was obtained.
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That alone makes her unfit for the job she clings on to.
The Sun
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After bluewater, kat ran to work, and i came home, had dinner, then went swimming, and i did 3000m in 55mins which im pretty pleased about as im sooooo unfit and stuff at the moment.
Abutterfly Diary Entry
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Aubanus and Sabellicus commend Portugal beef to be the most savoury, best and easiest of digestion; we commend ours: but all is rejected, and unfit for such as lead a resty life, any ways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion: Tales (Galen thinks) de facile melancholicis aegritudinibus capiuntur.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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They declared him unfitted to receive that blessing, and urged that he be required to be educated into that capacity.
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His conduct made him unfit to act as director of a company.
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Shuttleworth had claimed benefit saying she was unfit for work, but had been working when she made her claim.
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The first was a shrub of the kind called "camas," which thrives even in lands unfit for culture.
Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
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She became unfit to work as a driver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too many of those called to the recruiting offices were deemed unfit for duty.
The Sun
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The American market is now exploding with sweet ciders (such as Spire and Woodchuck) that are light, refreshing, and unfit for your cheese.
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Next, commit yourself to stepping out of any destructive dramas that emerge to create and feed inharmonious energy, much in the same way that you've committed yourself to protecting your body from re-accumulating waste from unfit foods.
Natalia Rose: Relationship Detox
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Thirty people claimed they were unfit to work because of blisters.
The Sun
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The steady even pace of the oxen is a great advantage, and I was often surprised to see how well men bore transport in these wagons, who seemed utterly unfit to be moved had it not been an absolute necessity.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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Thus, to train children to perform mental operations, or to practice tasks, for which they are unfitted, is a crime against nature.
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This was said in a forceful, man-of-the-world style, very unfitting for a man of any religious order.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Or if you insist on driving when you're clearly medically unfit to do so.
The Sun
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Thirty people claimed they were unfit to work because of blisters.
The Sun
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It means many unfit mothers are given a string of second chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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Missing a murder and one giant clue, he is clearly unfit for promotion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alabama is one of the leaders in numbers of overweight and unfit people.
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I really think I need to do some exercise, at the moment I'm seriously unfit.
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Tiofe therefore that have obftrv'd the com - mon occafions of Duels, have not unfitly di - vided them between * Wine and Women j it being hard to fay which is the moft intoxi - cating and befotting.
The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts
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This is why a fit person can do more exercise without getting breathless than an unfit person can.
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The Lady with a modest blush, much condemned this folly in him, that his covetousnes should serve as a cloake to cover any unfitting speeches which her chaste eares could never endure to heare.
The Decameron
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Or if you insist on driving when you're clearly medically unfit to do so.
The Sun
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Kenneth Grant, prosecuting, said Peterson had been claiming income support and housing and council tax benefits after declaring she was unfit for work.
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It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best.
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It means many unfit mothers are given a string of second chances.
Times, Sunday Times
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We all know that lakes Rotorua and Taupo are seriously degenerating, with algal blooms in some places and water quality that is unfit for human contact.
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Most of the buildings are unfit to live in.
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The meat was condemned as unfit for human consumption.
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Because of the high salt content of seawater, it is generally unfit for human consumption.
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It's likely that in the European Parliament, the U.S. president would be considered unfit for his job on account of his religious beliefs.
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No difference - except that the ethanol put in gasoline is "denatured" - made unfit for human consumption.
The Speculist: Brewing the Future
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We have gathered several facts which may not unfitly be woven into parables, and made to illustrate truth.
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This ace was unfit for purpose but he still wanted to be taken to the party.
Times, Sunday Times
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The complainant explained that the sheep had recently been wormed and vaccinated so the meat is unfit for human consumption.
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If they are over the drink-drive limit they are unfit for duty.
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Stale butter or that which is improperly kept develops an acid called _butyric acid_, which gives a disagreeable odor and flavor to butter and often renders it unfit for use.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables
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Just as well, though: it was probably unfit for public consumption.
Times, Sunday Times
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Powell was declared unfit for active service.
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The recent survey found that 20 per cent of private-rented dwellings are unfit for human habitation.
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She became unfit to work as a driver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Authorised Version, 'If thou canst _believe_' -- throwing, as it were, the responsibility on the man -- but it is a quotation of the father's own word, 'If Thou _canst_,' as if He waved it aside with superb recognition of its utter unfitness to the present case.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
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It is clear to many experts that annuities are unfit for purpose in their current form.
Times, Sunday Times
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I do not consider the applicant has even now provided satisfactory evidence that she may be unfit to attend the bankruptcy hearing.
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The bottom line answer is that a fit rider will outclimb an unfit rider, regardless of which kind of bike they're on.
Hacking Away: Epic Schemes and Epic Rides
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Thirty people claimed they were unfit to work because of blisters.
The Sun
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If a patient has a poor peak flow, he or she may be unfit for anaesthesia or surgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glasgow City Council's secure unit in Ayrshire is ageing and unfit for its purpose.
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You have it reversed, detrimental is a (much) farther standard that unfit parenting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Adoption Over Parent’s Objection Requires Showing That Continued Parent-Child Relationship Would Be Detrimental to the Child
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She is unfit for such a senior position.
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The food was unfit for human consumption.
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Overweight, blubbery, unfit bodies are no great advantage at 19,000 feet and so the bodies were whipped into (some sort of) shape.
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Or if you insist on driving when you're clearly medically unfit to do so.
The Sun
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Abdul Kader, the tailor who had attached himself to me, as a man ready-handed at all things, from mending a pair of pants, making a delicate entremets, or shooting an elephant, but whom the interior proved to be the weakliest of the weakly, unfit for anything except eating and drinking — almost succumbed on this march.
How I Found Livingstone
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-- "Unfit for the world and for the faith forlore.
Arabian nights. English
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I can discard that which is unfitting, and keep that which proved fitting, And invent something new for that which I discarded.
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If one waits too long, then the patient can be so frail and unfit that surgery is no longer an option.
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So the street-scavengering in a certain village has been entrusted to a one-armed cripple, utterly unfit for the business -- why?
Old Calabria
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so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
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The only fear is lest in our overanxiety we give them a degree of independence for which they are unfit, thereby inviting reaction and disaster.
Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement
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The world is graded into fit and unfit, not male and female.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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The homes were considered unfit to live in and were bulldozed to the ground.
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The manner of Hollingworth's departure offers resounding evidence that he was unfit for the position.
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While the batters exhibited marked improvements in temperament, they are still unfit for the long haul.
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certified as unfit for army service
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The toytown politicians who dreamed it up have demonstrated their unfitness to govern us, and should be sent packing at the next election.
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Instead, the official said, the marines had apparently broken UN seals of containers of low-grade uranium that the Iraqis had been allowed to keep because it was unfit for weapons use.
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Seven backpackers briefly detained along with the eight taken by the rebels said they were allowed to go because they were physically unfit or lacked sturdy walking shoes.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.
Richard Geldard: In This Other America
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I could go on, but all I can say is that branding her as someone unfit to serve because of her politics is grossly unfair.
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The sheep use it as a natural water repellent, which is lovely for them, but I found it to be sticky, oily, and totally unfit for my bundle of joy.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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Option three would mean the staining of low risk red meat by-products on the grounds that they too were unfit for human consumption and could be fraudulently diverted into the human food chain.
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The traditional, elaborate individual memorialisation of death was seen as unfitting, over the top and irrelevant.
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Historically, the talented ones have been the ones to survive and pass along their genetic material - the untalented or unfit have died off without reproducing, thus advancing our species.
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The federal government is concerned with an epidemic of overweight, unfit Canadians.
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Physically unfit women at unhealthy weights have higher chronic disease risk.
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Thus fear can be unfittingly directed at something that isn't really dangerous, or fittingly directed at something that is.
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And when we're at home, according to Colm, we're overweight, unfit, drink too much and the weather is lousy.
