So why is the culture growing less and less capable of absorbing criticism without retribution?
Nobody doubts the determination and both companies have balance sheets capable of absorbing some pain.
This is a small city and only capable of absorbing so much residential and commercial space.
It will flourish because it is the one literary form capable of absorbing all the others.
They think, even now, that Russia lacks the systems and institutions capable of absorbing capital productively.
To see requires that one have tissue capable of absorbing light, which means the retina cannot be entirely transparent.
Insulating materials such as hemp-lime, hemp fibre and wood fibre are capable of absorbing and releasing water vapour.
Viewers are quite capable of absorbing any news of closures and getting outraged immediately - recall the 6Music affair?
And yet Nusseibeh is capable of absorbing every variety of political menace: anonymous telephone calls, hate mail, death threats.
An epic project is under way to build a "smart" grid capable of absorbing wind power smoothly.
The great fear was that contemporary capitalism was capable of absorbing any and all critical ideas or movements and bending them to its own advantage.
