Sentence examples for capable of denying from inspiring English sources

THERE is probably only one Pole capable of denying Alexander Kwasniewski five more years as president of Poland, and he lives in the Vatican.

While he was not making a guarantee, Scott has no doubt that the Nets are capable of denying the Lakers their third straight title.

But Bruins announcers and writers seem to be the sort of tribalists you would expect to be leading the rearguard at Isengard, capable of denying the obvious facts in front of their eyes even while burning Fangorn and uprooting ancient trees.

But what about the lengthy list of others capable of denying the resurgent Woods?

Williams, a Grand Slam winner in 2005 and 2008, believes Wales are capable of denying Stuart Lancaster's side.

Helmer recently distinguished himself with the worst ad of this election cycle so far (it involves him wearing a T-shirt that says "VETERAN" while singing "You've lost that centrist feeling" at a Comstock impersonator in a bar) but Stover and Friedman both seem capable of denying Wexton the nomination.

Chrysippus defined a proposition as "that which is capable of being denied or affirmed as it is in itself" and gave examples of propositions such as "it is day" and "Dion is walking".

Descartes, pointing out that clocks and other automata are capable of moving themselves, denied this traditional view and held the soul to be responsible only for thinking; movement was exclusively a feature of bodies.

Many ecofeminist philosophers include animals, especially domesticated animals, among those beings that are capable of being oppressed, but deny that nature has this capability.

Instead, after discussing mind, he notes that all animals are capable of locomotion, only to deny that any one of the faculties of the soul so far considered (viz. nutrition, perception, or mind) can account for desire-initiated movement.

Improving the social status of women was important because they were capable of these cultivated faculties, and denying them access to education and other opportunities for development is forgoing a significant source of happiness.