On television, lawyers are capable of exercising moral judgment and have a private conscience.
Not a single black or Asian councillor is deemed capable of exercising power in a city where the problems of urban deprivation remain acute.
The news that tadpoles are capable of exercising choice will add a new dimension to the philosophical debate over free will.
Such beliefs rest on an ugly assumption: that only "the best and the brightest" are capable of exercising their own agency, while the rest of us can be written off according to age, race, income, and place of residence.
I take Bennett's point to be that inspirational teachers are often flawed human beings and that boys of that age are capable of exercising responsibility: indeed he once said in an interview: "Hector is the child, not them".
"There's always a balance between respecting full Pakistani sovereignty, even in places where they're not capable of exercising that sovereignty, and the need for our force protection," said the administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
That is, we must resist a top-down approach in response to challenges afflicting our generation; every one of us is capable of exercising change by committing ourselves to small acts, even if most will go unnoticed.
In what was an unprecedented step the two 11 year-olds were dragged into an adult court and treated as if they were mature individuals capable of exercising the kind of moral responsibility normally associated with adulthood.
The two older Dashwood sisters represent opposite temperaments: Elinor, the oldest, is "sensible," rational, and capable of exercising self-restraint, whereas Marianne, who shares her mother's temperament, is emotional and impulsive.
"The president claims power to deem the Senate not 'genuinely capable of exercising its constitutional function' during pro forma sessions and thus in a de facto recess," Miguel Estrada, the senators' attorney, wrote in the brief.
