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.
On television, lawyers are capable of exercising moral judgment and have a private conscience.
And yet, as a junior doctor trying to make her mark in a predominantly male sphere, she finds herself pressured to overcompensate, to prove beyond doubt that she is capable of exercising the detached judgment of a clinician whose primary focus is cure, not compassion.
Moderates, meanwhile, will grow ever more immoderate in pursuing their fantasy of a government capable of exercising the power to define taxation responsibly.
Corresponding pretty much to the general dispute about the very nature of rights, some have argued that any entity which would benefit from the performance by others of legal duties can be a right-holder; others that it has to be an entity which has interests; others that it has to be an entity capable of exercising some kind of control over the relevant legal machinery.
In a culture where many believe adolescents to be capable of exercising control over their sexuality, sexual activity during adolescence is a developmental task a sign of independence and autonomy, rather than a form of deviancy.
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".
Second, while architecture represents a means of exercising social control, architects themselves are not, qua individuals, capable of exercising such control alone and are instead part of a larger network and infrastructure dedicated to the maintenance and exercise of power.
Bondsteel is the Balkan equivalent of a giant immobile aircraft carrier, capable of exercising surveillance not only over the Balkans but also over Turkey and the Black Sea region (considered in the neocon-speak of the Bush years "the new interface" between the "Euro-Atlantic community" and the "Greater Middle East").
