Sentence examples for * wherewithal in from inspiring English sources

"We had the resources and the wherewithal in this country to do anything we wanted," Mr. Telnack said.

How we cope with the fact that life's resources — talent, beauty, wherewithal in the sack — are not evenly distributed is a concern to which Shriver's novels repeatedly address themselves.

This isn't exactly coincidental, since journalism is one of the jobs best equipped to give these blokes the wherewithal in money and space to explore their inner torment in public.

"This just illustrates the bigger problem, that there isn't the wherewithal in the Legislature to do what everyone knows will balance the budget, and that's tax the wealthy," Mr. Finch said.

The young entrepreneur took Leasco public in 1965 and the stock rose, giving Mr. Steinberg the wherewithal in 1968 to take over Reliance, a prosperous insurance company nearly 10 times Leasco's size.

One A.L. general manager, who was granted anonymity because commenting on other clubs could court accusations of collusion, said that the mass of wherewithal in Boston and in New York pulled talent to the entire league.

One can remain agnostic on the question of cephalopod souls and still feel awed by the wherewithal involved in Inky's jailbreak.

Building confidence in our children to listen to their inner voice will give them the wherewithal later in life to skip that meeting with the sketchy cellulite cream salesman or be able to say "no" when their best friend of two weeks asked them to buy a stake in an underwater timeshare.

Drunk or sober, these Englishmen do a lot of swearing and, at least in their younger days, they found the wherewithal to indulge in vices besides drinking.

He showed off his defensive skill, or at least the wherewithal to recover gracefully, in the fifth inning tonight.

But the majority of very smart kids lack the wherewithal to enroll in rigorous private schools.