Demanding
Unable
Unable adjective - Lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job.
Both words in one sentence
- Later, when Shriek makes the whole city unable to understand each other, the zookeepers are among the people demanding that Terry turn himself in.
Source: Ungrateful Bastard - Some people are unable or unwilling to negotiate for their loved ones because the terms of release are too demanding (at least to them) or they don't actually care about that person.
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Children of the Dust by British author Louise Lawrence contains a scene where five-year-old William Harnden starts demanding things which, because the world has recently been devastated by a nuclear war, his mother, Veronica, is unable to give him.
Source: Tantrum Throwing
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