Sentence examples similar to capable of seizing it from inspiring English sources

In 1961, Kennedy's foreign policy advisor Chester Bowles sent a secret memo to the president: "We are creating... forces capable of seizing power and using it for good or evil," he wrote.

But is it capable of seizing the chance?

If any of these leaders were capable of seizing power, they would have done it already".

But despite the comparisons made in some quarters with the street chaos of Egypt's revolution, no viable political opposition here seems capable of seizing the disenchantment of secular-minded Turks and molding it in to a cohesive movement.

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.

Given that azhdarchids also lack the ability to apprehend prey in flight with their limbs (see discussion of mid-air predation, above), it seems highly unlikely that azhdarchids were capable of seizing prey from the water surface in flight.

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".

But is David Cameron capable of seizing this remarkable opportunity?

Where is the politics capable of seizing this moment?

Quicker and slicker in their passing then, Celta looked capable of seizing the night.

We know that the current Chelsea team is capable of seizing the moment.