As long as the United States foreswears sea-, air- and space-based missile defenses in particular, it will be unableto develop, tosay nothing of deploy, effective anti-missile systems.
But surrounded by people who believed making a horse subservient meant establishing physical dominance over it, at first he was unabletosay he thought he had found a better way to tame horses.
It is suggested that the UN is unableto achieve this as it would be preoccupied with ensuring everyone has a say and therefore that nothing actually gets done.
Nationalists say that because Scotland is classified as a "region" it is unableto enjoy all of the benefits enjoyed by similarly-sized countries like Finland and Denmark and smaller countries such as the Republic of Ireland.
"We are committed toit, " a BAT spokeswoman told BBC News Online, although she was unabletosay when the firm would release a low-risk cigarette onto the market.
Let's say Greece withdraws from the euro and is unable or unwilling to settle the 100bn euros or so it owes the other eurozone central banks under the Target2 payments system.
The spokeswoman was unabletosay how much money the broadcaster wanted in public subsidy or if jobs and public service commitments would be affected without it.