Sentence examples for be capable of exercising from inspiring English sources

This is because justice involved youth may not be capable of exercising autonomy to make their own choices, so they require protection.

6); For example, some have argued that while a compatibilist sense of freedom is sufficient for attributability, genuine accountability would require that agents be capable of exercising libertarian freedom.

This proxy exercise of choice would take place only during the period when the children were incapable of exercising choice and in acknowledgment of the fact that the children will eventually be capable of exercising their own choices.

Their presence thus calls for the setting of new instruments as they make it unlikely that consumers be capable of exercising control over their energy consumption in reaction to given incentives.

I don't think they would close down media outlets but they could certainly be capable of exercising pressure to force editors to step down".

We in Washington need to walk away and let Kim Jong-il's neighbors demonstrate the leadership they claim to be capable of exercising.

They should be respected both as beings who are capable of exercising decisions, and also as members in communities who make choices in the context of their relationships.

I take Bennett's point to be that inspirational teachers are often flawed human beings and that boys of that age are capable of exercising responsibility: indeed he once said in an interview: "Hector is the child, not them".

On television, lawyers are capable of exercising moral judgment and have a private conscience.

The news that tadpoles are capable of exercising choice will add a new dimension to the philosophical debate over free will.

Such beliefs rest on an ugly assumption: that only "the best and the brightest" are capable of exercising their own agency, while the rest of us can be written off according to age, race, income, and place of residence.