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This will be confined to a 30-mile zone around Italy's coastal waters, possess a third of Mare Nostrum's maritime capacities , and be coordinated through the EU-funded Frontex agency.
It's a dynamic space, and the potential for screening off areas of seating allow the space to be tailored for slightly smaller artists, too, such as Queens of the Stone Age and Vampire Weekend, with adjusted capacities of 5,000, 7,000 or 9,000.
"If you lived in a group where everyone was very helpful to each other, behaved altruistically, and your group could then dominate other groups, then those altruistic tendencies would increase in frequency and the number of groups displaying those capacities would increase".
Throughout the course the development of your capacities as a writer of biography will be helped by an exploration of the genre itself.
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, appointed last year as Nato's deputy commander of forces in Europe, said the alliance needed to develop both fast-reacting conventional forces and capacities to counter Russian efforts at coercion and propaganda, as seen in Ukraine.
All countries with significant emissions must undertake to set ambitious commitments, reflecting the international consensus that our responsibility to deal with climate change is shared in common - but what we do must reflect national circumstances and capacities.
Higher-spec devices such as smartphones and tablets can perform the same functions in more user-friendly ways, for instance through multimedia apps, and can also draw on a wider range of sensors and capacities – eg accelerometers, GPS and camera – to generate richer data and smarter interventions.
The meeting of European sports ministers in Leipzig last Thursday was clouded beforehand by the rumpus over Sepp Blatter, the Fifa president, refusing to sit down with Dave Richards, English football's multi-hatted administrator, who had been invited in one of his newer capacities as chairman of the European Professional Leagues grouping.
Save the Children Guatemala offer community support both to primary- and pre-school children, but focus on improving educational capacities rather than on nutrition in isolation.
In line with frugal innovation thinking, many existing capacities of tablets, smartphones and even "dumbphones" can be repurposed to serve diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic functions.
Having a diverse set of capacities that can be mobilised when needed is also important.
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The primary grammatical function of "capacities" is as a plural noun . It typically refers to the various abilities, capabilities, or potential of something or someone, as shown in Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
