Sentence examples for capable of hurling from inspiring English sources

"As a lifelong rugby fan, a straight man in his 60s, I could not believe that a bunch of men half my age watching a rugby match in the 21st century could be capable of hurling such nasty, foul-mouthed, racist, homophobic abuse at an openly gay match official.

The rapid spread of technology across increasingly porous borders raises the specter that more and more states, terrorists and criminal syndicates could gain access to chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons, and to the means of delivering them whether in small units deployed by terrorists within our midst or ballistic missiles capable of hurling those weapons halfway around the world.

Rather, each design type represents one solution to the problem of creating a mobile weapon system capable of hurling lightweight projectiles".

It is designed to be capable of hurling projectiles distances of up to 300 m and as high as 25 m and can throw projectiles weighing up to 150 kg.

Front-line location must have been approximately 250 300 m from the walls; trebuchets are known from modern reconstruction to be capable of hurling 100 kg more than 200 m (25), and historical sources claim 300 m as the working range of large machines (26).

Others are the definitely Celtic sports of hurling and shinty.

Buy from Amazon.co.ukFAST bowlers are cricket's showmen, eliciting gasps as they hurl down deliveries capable of snapping batsmen's ribs.

He recalled episodes of yelling, and hurling of office supplies.

He delivered it with the authority of Zeus hurling thunderbolts.

In the meantime his bowling improves by the match from the naive lad who simply hurled himself into the fray, and would not be far from capable of standing on its own right.

I'm capable of medalling.