Now, in 2016, Thiel has finally found a politician capable of seizing that opportunity: a disruptor-in-chief who will destroy a dying system and build a better one in its place.
The court finds that the city's at-risk children are capable of seizing the opportunity for a sound basic education if they are given sufficient resources.
In New York, Justice DeGrasse has ordered the Legislature to come up with money to enable New York City schools to make its many at-risk students "capable of seizing the opportunity for a sound basic education".
If people like George Christensen have moved in from the obscurity where they might in earlier times have dwelled, it is because they are more capable of seizing the opportunities that a chaotic, affectively charged environment presents.
At a moment when a youth movement has gathered behind a candidate capable of seizing power the old-fashioned way, Hoffman and Rubin's nonsense about "revolution" just looks lame.
Now, you would think the British athletes would be a little more capable of seizing home field advantage, especially with the weather constantly reminding them they're in London.
Downing Street said that by joining forces in the nuclear sector, Britain and France sould develop a competitive supply chain capable of seizing opportunities around the world.
Sniper rifles and machine guns (and training in how to use them) would assist in keeping extremist militants at bay, but heavy and rocket propelled weaponry is essential to stave off the Humvees and armoured vehicles so instrumental in facilitating the Islamic State's emergence as a powerful marauding army capable of seizing and holding territory.
Should the crown's leadership falter, there existed by the end of the century an organization that was quite capable of seizing the political initiative, for as one disgruntled contemporary noted: "the foot taketh upon him the part of the head and commons is become a king".
I know that Vettel's the man in form, but Webber's still a great driver and is eminently capable of seizing pole for himself.
