Sentence examples for be able for from inspiring English sources

We may no longer be able, for example, to grow wheat in Kansas.

They will also be able, for example, to ask to examine the prosecution evidence.

Its cops report being happy to be able, for example, to defuse tensions with a Turkish-speaking suspect's nervous family.

But it would probably not be able, for instance, to intervene on its own to stop war in the Congo.

But when you commit to something for life, once you get into your 40s, you need to be able for it to sustain you.

"The most important and exciting thing is to be able, for the first time, to understand a giant dinosaur as a living organism.

She said she was able for the first time to be emotionally naked with a man.

Following the election, Cameron was able, for the first time, to run a Conservative-only administration.

Lebanese society was able for a long time to give a semblance of relative economic stability.

That night when James went to bed he was able, for the first time, to remember his parents without pain.

Obama was able, for example, to give a reasonably complete description of his tax and health-care proposals.