Sentence examples for capable of controlling their from inspiring English sources

Some pediatricians are skeptical that children under a year old are actually capable of controlling their own toileting behavior.

And this ideology asserts that most people in all places, even the poor and oppressed, are capable of controlling their own affairs and determining their own rulers.

Gays already serve in the military, so clearly they are capable of controlling their animal-like desire for the same sex.

The court, drawing on psychological and brain science indicating that people under age 18 are not yet fully capable of controlling their behavior, abolished the juvenile death penalty and greatly restricted life without parole sentences for crimes by juveniles.

Animals that migrate between fresh water and salt water, such as salmon or eels, are capable of controlling their osmotic environment by active pumping or the retention of salts (see biosphere: Salinity).

He talks of the tendency of the American establishment, all too often backed by the news media, to pick "devils du jour" like Sukarno of Indonesia (remember him?), and build them up into great Hitlerian menaces to American interests and well-being, when in many cases these were tinpot figures barely capable of controlling their own countries.

Israel argued that attacks like the one today prove Palestinian authorities are not yet capable of controlling militants in their territories.

Eggs can, however, hatch quickly (4.5 days at 14°C), and larvae seem capable of controlling, to some extent, their movements (Henderson 1998), which together with their ability to settle both inshore or offshore waters (Bolle et al. 1994) may reduce the dispersal of most individual eggs.

"The disclosure that it was Mr Adoboli's decision to inform his colleagues of his actions that set alarm bells ringing at UBS, rather than its own monitoring system, will add to concerns that investment banks simply aren't capable of controlling the huge risks that their traders take," Robert Peston said.

Foreign Minister Abdelelah al-Jatib said Jordan and Peru were involved in legal arms sales, and that corrupt Peruvian officials "are not capable of controlling the activities of traffickers in their own country".

First, we investigated whether queens of Temnothorax ants are capable of controlling egg laying by workers of their own, closely, and distantly related species.