The inability or unwillingness of citizens to differentiate between fake and authentic news is undermining a fundamental assumption of democracy: the informed voter.
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
As a child, I was awkward, fidgety, and shy, with a total inability to concentrate, and in that regard, I'm exactly the same as an adult.
James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency.
Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.
The scripts that I take should be solid in terms of content; only then will my inability as an actor not show up on the screen.
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.
The 'inability to have a dialogue' is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.
The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around the globe.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
When I became more aware and educated on the state of youth sports and the inability for so many who want to participate, I knew I wanted to be involved.
The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up - these are all things that have really worked for me.
I recognise why I have such a strong inability to forgive certain people who betray me. It's chiselled in, like a name on a tomb stone.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
We must never shed tears That is the life form’s defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.
I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.
You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God.
The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind.
When we become immobilized by our own inability to deal directly with what is a commonly perceived truth and reality, we are in trouble as a nation.
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.
We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .
If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.
My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.
In 60 years I'm yet to meet a Chief Minister who blames others for his own inability to work.
Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the journey to our border.
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
I believe our inability to achieve victory stems mainly from having lost sight as a nation of what it means to win.
Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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