Sentence examples for has seemed able from inspiring English sources

Having picked up the weapon, though, neither side has seemed able to set it down.

The foreign program is relatively new, but so far the Colonel's chicken has seemed able to leap geographical, linguistic, and culinary barriers with ease.

This demands a more fundamental challenge to existing social care needs and means tests than any of the major political parties has seemed able to contemplate.

But the good times did not last: Poland's once-stellar economic growth has slowed to a sluggish pace and Mr Rostowski has seemed able to come up with only short-term fixes.

A breakthrough could end a war that has claimed 5,000 or more lives in the last decade, and which neither side has seemed able to settle on the battlefield.The outlook is bleaker in West Papua.

The boyish-faced 43-year-old former television commentator came out of nowhere four years ago to electrify this gritty business city with his very un-Japanese, in-your-face style — and his ability to do what few national leaders have seemed able to: push through painful changes.

"Usually there's more business in a new congress, but there is a political hangover effect from the fact that congress has seemed less able to move major pieces of legislation in the committees and through the chambers, so business is perhaps being a little more cautious in engaging," Mottur said.

Like so many other online games that have dared challenge World of Warcraft, Rift has not seemed able to sustain its initial success.

The independent mainstream media have seemed most able to preserve a sense of reality in the public sphere.

One by one, companies that had seemed effortlessly able to meet analysts' expectations have delivered bad news, and most have been punished by investors for their trouble.

However, for a variety of boring reasons that plague such professional associations, the chapter just has not seemed able to get its act together in recent years to assert its collective talent.