"Fourteen is the age within our current laws that young people are considered to have the capacity to commit crimes," he said.
"We know from experience who these people are, and how they behave," and it is time, he said, to give their behavior "the proper appellation". Western religious leaders, evolutionary theorists and psychological researchers agree that almost all human beings have the capacity to commit brutal acts, even when they are not directly threatened.
Many developing countries have the capacity to commit to reducing their emissions now.
For most people, it is generally hard to accept that a person they spent many Christmas dinners with, or someone who came to their Fourth of July picnics, had the capacity to commit one of the most heinous crimes known to humankind.
According to Erikson, intimacy is achieved when the adolescent has developed the capacity to commit to a concrete affiliation and abide by the commitment, even if this means sacrifice and compromise [ 1]. Paul and White [ 2] describe three stages in the development of intimate relationships in late adolescence.
The human mind has the capacity to make a perfectly sane choice to commit an act of utter evil.
It's terribly uplifting to me because if a person has the capacity to feel passion for something, they can commit passionately and care deeply about other things.
"People believe that when Bob commits to something he has the capacity to see it through," said Gene Sykes, MBA '84, Goldman Sachs managing director, Advisory Council chair, and another search committee member.
"Everyone has the capacity to move.
And Tesla has the capacity to intervene.
Reinhardt said it would not be in the interests of the "judicial system or the public to prolong this travesty any further". The appeals court said there was serious doubt that Flynt had the mental capacity to commit contempt.
