"Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not have a person feel as though they're being preached at".
You could tell that Brad Pitt's modern hero is comfortable with powerful women because his on-screen wife is age appropriate, wears minimal make-up on her exquisite face and is capable enough to say great lines like, "Tell them I've got the flares" and she means incendiary devices not Gloria Vanderbilt slacks.
If Mr. Obama wanted to blow off steam, he did not show it, tweaking Ms. Palin instead by referring to her as a "capable politician" (as opposed to, say, a capable leader) and noted that "she has excited the base in the Republican Party" (a subtle to nod to her unpopularity with independent voters in some swing states).
"Any disabled student must work twice as hard," says Freeman. "My whole philosophy is not to let your disability stand in the way of achieving what you are capable to achieve," says Jesky, who uses a wheelchair herself.
One of its isotopes, uranium-235, is the only naturally-occurring isotope discovered to be fissile, that is to say, capable of sustaining nuclear fission.
A replacement worthy of the dream -- which is to say, capable of holding his own against Ms. Netrebko -- had to be found quickly, and casting Mr. Grigolo was a gamble.
But they are not capable of getting down to, say, ultra-clean SULEV emissions levels (a certification standard under California's emissions regulations, which are the toughest to meet).
Indeed, every house in SOL achieves the same high level of energy conservation: they were all designed to meet the federal Department of Energy's guidelines for net-zero capable construction, which is to say, they use 55 percent less energy than a typical house (circa 2006).
The presence of a fetus should not serve as ground for detracting from our duty to protect a pregnant woman's right to participate in decisions about her own care to whatever extent she is capable (which is not to say that paternalistic interventions on behalf of her or her fetus's welfare are never appropriate for decisionally impaired women).
Is what I'm about to say capable of hurting someone's feelings that I don't want or need to hurt?
