Sentence examples for capable first from inspiring English sources

And he was able to send a capable first deputy prime minister, Igor Shuvalov, who had an advantage Putin lacks.

"There were some extremely capable First Amendment and mass-media lawyers who were able to spin a win out of a loss, by persuading courts to follow Powell's concurring opinion instead of White's majority opinion," Rodney Smolla, the dean of the University of Richmond School of Law and the author of "Free Speech in an Open Society," said.

"He's been a more capable first time CEO than I imagined was possible".

In a sense, it's a very capable first smartphone that you might give someone, or recommend they buy.

As shown in the figure, node A sends an RTS to the AP (FD capable) first and, then, the AP makes a decision to send data to node D while also receiving data from node A. If nodes A and D are close to each other, the packets from node A will interfere with the packets sent by the AP to node D, thereby producing inter-user interference problems.

You won't see him for more than a few seconds in the show's pilot, but David Anders is among the reasons to watch beyond that capable first episode.

There are a lot of good films made by capable first-time directors, but there are few where the director seems to have so many ideas.

"You have to look at it and say, 'I am somebody and they need to respect that fact.' " Lee Mazzilli, Cardenal's replacement, will be a capable first-base coach and outfield instructor, but did the Yankees really consider how Cardenal's departure would influence El Duque?

Mario Gomez is on the bench, Claudio Pizarro a capable second back-up.

Neither player will be the primary backup catcher, but their ability to be a capable third catcher may be pivotal to their chances of making the team.

The extraordinary resemblance between two individuals; second, the great amount of change in appearance of which a single individual is capable; third, the known unreliability of eyes, memory, and judgment under the influence of excitement, fear, or other mental emotion.