Sentence examples for American capacity from inspiring English sources

Mr. Norbu chuckled over one of his first impressions: the American capacity for legislative reincarnation.

James L. Winchester, an analyst with Lazard Frères, said Renaissance's fleet represented 3.6percentt of total North American capacity.

The American capacity for tragedy is much broader and far more robust than Americans most of us, anyway recognize.

He wrote that the war tested "the American capacity to respond to a threat that is important but not terminal".

Strategically and morally, the Bush Administration has squandered the American capacity to counter the example and the swagger of its rivals.

Of course, the damage to American foreign policy by the practices of the NSA goes far beyond American capacity to promote human rights.

In the age of Barbary, as today, the most predictable aspect of war — and, for that matter, of American capacity-building — is that it will have unintended, unpredicted consequences.

Finally, there is neutrality: the nations in the Sunni axis are continually asking the United States to simply throw in with them, to use the C.I.A. and other American capacities to help the Sunnis beat back their rivals.

However much we may grumble about schools "these days," public education clearly multiplied Americans' capacity for abstract thinking.

As contentious as the issue is here, the Americans' capacity to absorb immigrants remains the envy of many Europeans (including those not inclined to envy Americans).

Aadel Delli, the owner of a food market in downtown Baghdad, said he did not believe the air-conditioned-uniform stories, which he attributed to popular doubts about Americans' capacity for discomfort.