Sentence examples for ably use from inspiring English sources
The disparate Eurosceptics have had little influence on EU legislation but they ably use the European assembly as a megaphone.
While they had not created the constitution of 1842, the Republicans ably used its provisions to retain dominance in the state government long after the Democratic Party had come to represent an actual popular majority.
You can argue about whether dual-class stock and other governance mechanisms that give control to founders and executives are good or bad, but it is clear that the threat of this competition has been ably used by Washington to water down its own regulation.
The tools Walker developed were ably put to use in 2007 when he made his debut on Broadway as the sweetly principled schoolteacher Bertram Cates in "Inherit the Wind".
He ably and critically used the classical commentators Themistius and Alexander of Aphrodisias and the falāsifah (Muslim philosophers) al-Fārābī, Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), and his own countryman Avempace (Ibn Bājjah).
On the night I went, the Morris folk choir, drifting on to the action as if by accident, ably showed Gray and Greig's exemplary use of music, which sometimes runs ahead of the play's narrative, sometimes fleshes out what is seen on stage.
On the iPhone, Apple ably fills the role of distributor.
"It is the biggest megaphone there is, and President Clinton used it very ably.
Bob Herbert (column, April 27) ably demonstrates how Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani uses his budget ax to punish his critics inside government.
European architectural designs were ably transformed by Indian artisans, who used red and black tezontle, a light and porous volcanic rock found locally, to create elaborate facades.
French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that a panopticon ably maintains social and power imbalances while using that most passive method of control: observation.
