Opportunities arise when a suitable target (vessel), converges in time and space with a motivated offender (pirate) in the absence of a capable guardian (crew or other authority) (Cohen and Felson 1979).
But pressure had been mounting on Ms. Olatoye, whom many considered to be a capable leader of the underfunded city authority, since it emerged last year that she had signed off on federal paperwork indicating that mandated lead paint inspections had been done when they had not.
Glendale brought back the majority of its lineup under Coach Greg Osbourne, who also hit the recruiting trail with authority, searching for a capable core of freshmen to provide depth.
The first disadvantage is that reliable verification requires a capable and experienced official, which incurs additional cost for the airport authority.
It was evident that the investigating organs of the legal authorities had been utterly unsuitable for the task of conducting a purely criminal investigation of this sort, because the legal authorities, in view of their character as a military legal instrument, lacked- a fundamental basis, namely, an authority capable of carrying out criminal prosecutions.
He was, of course, a capable cartoonist.
Become a capable athlete.
Jörg Asmussen, a member of the E.C.B.'s Governing Council, emphasized in comments Wednesday in Brussels that Europe needed a strong authority capable of making quick and impartial decisions on winding up banks.
The major rival of international liberal theory is realism, which contends that the foreign policy behaviour of states is shaped primarily by the anarchic structure of the international system that is, by the absence of a supranational authority capable of effectively providing for the security of individual states.
Despite the lack of formal charges, in its judgement in May 2012, the UK Supreme Court found that the Swedish public prosecutor was a judicial authority capable of issuing the warrant, in the same way as a judge or a court would be.
And shouldn't this fundamental deficiency -- the inability to understand this primary aspect of the intimate transaction that occurs between writer and reader, the refusal to recognize one of the simplest pleasures afforded by the act of reading -- disqualify the critic as an authority capable of passing judgment on a novel's ambitions, and on how well it succeeds?
