Sentence examples for be able to pivot from inspiring English sources

"You have to be able to pivot quickly, as they say in basketball".

David: I'm wondering how much Romney will be able to pivot and leave that whole mess behind.

By means of trunnions & turntables, the light will be able to pivot up and down and to revolve once a minute.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy, he argues, would not be able to pivot away from coal and toward renewable energy sources if it didn't have the backing of its corporate parent.

I think that Oscar ought to look into hiring the Actor's personal trainer so that when he arrives at his moment in March, he will be able to pivot in the spotlight with the comfort of knowing that his buns of steel are as firm as they ought to be.

This doesn't mean everyone who is made redundant by automation will be able to pivot and find a new job in a different capacity — many jobs will indeed be gone for good, and many household incomes will fall drastically as a result.

I was able to pivot and do some turns.

Instead the Federal Reserve was able to pivot to unconventional monetary policy such as quantitative easing and forward guidance.

No previous biographer has been able to pivot with Koestler at this point, but Scammell, a first-class paraphraser, is up to the task.

Also, given parameters designed to limit how hard it could press on an object, the arm was able to pivot around objects automatically.

Being able to pivot comfortably between the general public and the political plutocracy is a skill no less complex than being able to analyze data from the Hubble telescope; being able to do both is very unusual.