But, as critics like James K. Galbraith and Alan Blinder, a former vice chairman of the Fed, have pointed out, the economy was probably capable of somewhat faster noninflationary growth somewhat sooner.
THE STAFF Pleasant and capable, though somewhat stretched at busy times.
From the brief interaction I had with the car, the new Fiesta turned out to be a capable, if somewhat predictable, economy car.
"That the effect of the sequester has been relatively benign so far", he writes, "strikes me as a data-point in favour of relatively inflexible fiscal rules, such as debt-ceilings and balanced-budget amendments, capable of somewhat offsetting the diffuse-cost/concentrated-benefit dynamic that otherwise drives democracies toward imbalance and ruin".
That the effect of the sequester has been relatively benign so far strikes me as a data-point in favour of relatively inflexible fiscal rules, such as debt-ceilings and balanced-budget amendments, capable of somewhat offsetting the diffuse-cost/concentrated-benefit dynamic that otherwise drives democracies toward imbalance and ruin.
But familiarity breeds contempt, and by the early 2000s both of these capable if somewhat tippy off-roaders were languishing on used car lots and taking up valuable classified advert space.
In less capable hands, this somewhat incongruous combination might register as off-key.
They are in a loving but often confusing marriage to their husbands who are equally capable and yet somewhat more at ease at a cocktail party.
The experience, she says, "threw me into a bit of an existential crisis about my own mortality and the power dynamics that exist between being a flawed person and yet somewhat capable of trying to fix something faulty within other living beings".
At the same time, the fact that the rats eventually learned the task suggested to the authors "that rats might be somewhat capable of using aspect ratio, and by implication shape, to solve visual discriminations" [146].
