Sentence examples for able to reckon from inspiring English sources
We love the serene, eternal, incorruptible form of the circle, and the illusion of mastery that being able to reckon with it mathematically gives us, but the shape itself is rare in the natural world.
Sceptics insist this is not ahead of schedule, but acknowledge that the new oil will more than offset declines elsewhere, especially if the Saudis manage to delay the retirement of old fields.Therefore, the main cause for concern today lies with a force that even the Saudis may not be able to reckon with: terrorism.
Today, as the Taliban advance on multiple fronts and the government sometimes seems paralyzed by division, it is hard to focus on that distant point when Afghanistan may be able to reckon with its past and debate how to balance the claims of retributive justice with the society's need for peace.
The monks are able to reckon the time accurately by the morning steam rising off cow pies.
And how will our machines the screens constantly staring back as we stare at them day in and day out ever be able to reckon with us reasonably?
Simek additionally points out that a stanza appearing early in the poem Völuspá states that the Æsir had set up the moon "in order to be able to reckon the year", which Simek connects with Germanic computation of time having been directed towards the moon rather than the sun, and that shorter amounts of time were given in nights rather than days.
"On a good day, we reckon we would be able to count 20% [non-profit] and 6% or so left in the public sector," he says.
The American reckons he will be able to count the number of people supporting him on one hand, but insists he is still looking forward to an "electric" atmosphere.
Brownlee is still able to see them, if he looks hard, and might reckon he can catch them in the run.
It is designed to handle differences and reckon powers of numbers up to the tenth, whereas such machines hiterto [sic] have been able to compute only the second power of numbers.
He's one to reckon with".
