Sentence examples for capable of buying from inspiring English sources

"He is somebody capable of buying a Jackson Pollock today, a medieval ivory tomorrow and an old master the next day".

The dirty secret is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying.

He did indeed look capable of buying his own drinks — one of which, a dry martini, straight up, was on the bar in front of him.

While New York can boast of hundreds of "cells," as Jimenez labels major distribution rings, a city the size of Baltimore will have no more than two dozen dealers capable of buying in kilo quantities.

Besides holding photos social networks, emails, and phone numbers it's also becoming a mobile wallet, capable of buying things just as easily as a credit or debit card, and access to a bank account via an app.

Also, she noted, "For anyone financially capable of buying a house, it is a good time to buy, because prices have already fallen, and interest rates are so low".

Coase's suggestion was to change the rules so that these harmful effects become commodities that are capable of being bought and sold too.

In economic terms, electricity (both power and energy) is a commodity capable of being bought, sold, and traded.

In politics, couldn't we use the rarely heard or seen words empleomania, a craving for holding public office; and emptitious, corruptible or capable of being bought?

But it rejected a similar proposal from Minnesota in 2004 on several grounds, including a couple that might seem germane: that food-stamp rules would be inconsistent across state lines, and that it would perpetuate a stigma that food-stamp recipients are not capable of making buying decisions.

They added that whoever sent the highly concentrated form of the disease to Senator Tom Daschle must be regarded as a sophisticated assailant capable of making or buying more anthrax spores.