Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, said elected officials were capable of representing the voters.
In contrast, a digital clock is capable of representing only a finite number of times (every tenth of a second, for example).
Still, others highlight the organisational weakness of the Syrian opposition and question whether the Syrian National Council is capable of representing the Syrian masses and speaking on their behalf.
"In two back-to-back performances, on Friday and tonight," Karolyi said, "Shannon could not prove she was capable of representing her country".
Newark's citizens are surely entitled to ask why their compromised MP is nonetheless deemed to be capable of representing them as an independent for the next two years – and to demand a byelection.
The working group on citizens and institutions called for "the government of the Union to be in the hands of the commission, which alone was capable of representing the common interests of its citizens".
And there is no question that the great disrespect shown to Scotland in these proposals is likely to have more people asking whether Westminster is capable of representing Scotland's interests at all".
The seven-bit ASCII code is capable of representing up to 128 alphanumeric and special characters sufficient to accommodate the writing systems of many phonetic scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic.
"Within four years as a councillor I've influenced a change in government policy, spoke to thousands of young people in school and made a real connection with my constituents, who trust me as a person who is capable of representing them".
The model must be capable of representing short-timescale hydrodynamics, salinity transport, and groundwater interaction.
