Sentence examples for basically able from inspiring English sources

Their functioning may be significantly impaired, but personality remains relatively intact, the capacity to recognize and objectively evaluate reality is maintained, and they are basically able to function in everyday life.

"You see somebody who -- really for the first time probably since she was in law school, or married to Bill Clinton -- is basically able to reach for her limits.

By 'normal,' I mean kids who are basically able to move from school to hobbies to their social lives, from subject to subject, without having to get obsessed about things.

Joseph was a better model, a slave who "ended up as the Prime Minister of the most powerful nation in the world at the time"; because he persisted and listened to God, he "was basically able to save the entire world with his big thinking".

With chinampas, the area's Aztec people were basically able to construct new space for farming on previously unhospitable land.

We were basically able to set the terms for the round so it was all really a no brainer," he says.

They should basically be able to look at what I went through.

"They basically were able to eliminate a competitor from the marketplace," said Amy Butte, an analyst with the Bear Stearns Companies.

But you would have difficulty remembering where you parked your car or where the bathroom was or basically being able to move around and navigate the world.

"Maynard basically was able, because of the esteem in which he was held, to pick his successors," said Bob Holmes, the author of a new biography of Mr. Jackson.

"I would get offers which would mysteriously turn cold and was basically not able to get on with my singing career, which I had done since I was 11 years old," she says.