The men who run ISIS have already demonstrated their capacity for far-out nihilism, so we don't need to wonder whether they're capable of deciding to do something like this.
In this he is drawing partly on the tradition of Catholic social teaching, and partly on moral thinking popular in the 1960s, when moral philosophers were first grappling with the implications of nuclear weapons and the sense that humankind had not grown up but reached its toddler stage, where the capacity for destruction far outweighed our capacity for judgment.
Mr. Kerry has the capacity to do far, far better.
7. Of course, one could argue that different quantifiers have different capacities for how far their scopes extend, and that this explains the discrepancy between (7) and (8), and (9) and (10).
His explication of religion's capacity for evil is far subtler than the simplistic atheist line that "religions cause wars," but he doesn't seem to know it.
An American reporter is on hand to print the legend and to impress his readers with Britain's abiding capacity for martial glory, far from the futility of the Western Front and the disaster of Gallipoli.
We concluded that intra-cortical perfusion in the primate was characterised by both very narrow functional beds and a large capacity for compensatory redistribution, far beyond the nearest neighbour collaterals.
These are enormously positive steps, yet it's worth noting that Australia's capacity for intake is far greater than these numbers: we did, after all, resettle vast numbers of post second world war migrants when our population and infrastructure was far smaller.
The human tendency to imitate may help to explain why our capacity for social learning far exceeds other species.
Whenever you see a pearly king eating a pickled onion, clap openly and announce that "This isle contains a people with a capacity for expression that far outstrips my own pale homeland".
In mammals, cardiac damage is not followed by the complete replacement of lost cellular components but is rather defined by a relatively minor capacity for regeneration and far more robust reparative response.
