Sentence examples for capable of downing from inspiring English sources

Flanker Rocky Elsom has overcome an ankle injury to be close enough to 100 per cent fit to play and feels the Wallabies are capable of downing the unbeaten Springboks.

Are postcards sent on behalf of prisoners really the equal of a water cannon loaded with blue ink, capable of downing a soldier who is beating a prisoner with a baton?

I've never seen them eat just because the food was there, whereas I am capable of downing a smorgasbord of goodies even if I've just eaten a full meal.

Should the gun dealer think it fishy that I might want to acquire a weapon capable of downing a small aircraft (much less six of those weapons) he may report the purchase to the A.T.F.

In a call to Vladimir V. Putin, the Russian president, Mr. Bush talked about a sting operation disclosed last week that the authorities said foiled a plot to smuggle into the United States a Russian-made shoulder-fired missile capable of downing an airliner.

Addressing the issue of whether the Airbus 321 could have been brought down by Islamic State, as claimed in a video posted online, Clapper echoed the judgment of aviation and security experts who suggest the group does not have a missile system capable of downing a jet flying at more than 30,000ft.

The dsRNA, which was produced either from a constructed plasmid or from an in vitro transcription reaction, was capable of down-regulating the expression of TgUPRT.

miRNAs are capable of down-regulating both mRNA transcription and translation levels of the target gene [1].

All GAP-like proteins are capable of down-regulating the ras protein activities, including the activity of p21-ras proto-oncogene.

Most importantly, polyamides are cell permeable and localize in the nucleus in various cultured cell lines and are capable of down regulating target genes in these cells.

TLR2 is mainly expressed by myeloid cells and a soluble form (sTLR2), capable of down-modulating TLR-mediated pro-inflammatory responses, is released in response to microbial challenges [2].