Sentence examples for history able from inspiring English sources

He has been able to pass himself off as a wise elder statesman — a historian without a history — able to capture the anger and anxiety of the right and articulate it with force, lucidity and gravitas.

Bolt is, without doubt, the greatest sprinter in history, able to produce his best under the greatest pressure, although Michael Johnson, the American who dominated the 200 and 400 in the 1990s, could have a superior case to make for enduring greatness.

"These are the first women in history able to take advantage of the industrial revolution.

Akamai's chief since mid-2005, he believes this star-crossed company has arrived at a magical moment in tech history, able to at least double its capacity every year and in the process disrupt vast swathes of the global economy.

The Negro can precipitate this abdication because white Americans have never, in all their long history, been able to look on him as a man like themselves.

Thus, the terrorist leader responsible for the largest attack in the United States in history was able to continue to operate for another decade.

He was a good Latinist and as a student of Classical history was able to hold his own in conversation with the erudite Pius II.

The new rules also meant that building societies, for the first time in their 150-year failure-free history, were able to offer a full range of banking services.

As a keen student of its history and able to pinpoint which famous writers were published and when, he's also acutely aware of the New Yorker's lapses.

Drivers also have constant access to their ride history, being able to easily see where they've driven, who they've picked up and what they've earned.

Notorious disasters, such as Minamata Disease from mercury poisoning in factory runoff, spurred social movements that for the first time in Japan's post-war history were able to exert pressure on the iron triangle [2].