Sentence examples for it as capable from inspiring English sources

She had been singing so punishingly, in smoky clubs, on street corners, busking for rent, straining the rough, husky, untrained, almost Janis Joplin-like voice that characterized her early singing — a sound so sandpapery that Emmylou Harris described it as capable of peeling the chrome off a trailer hitch — that she was in danger of losing it altogether.

This evolved to "defensible" in the 19th century and now, we commonly understand it as "capable of being continued".

And it's true, as capable as an iPad is, it's still not a laptop.

It costs about $14 million per year to operate Opportunity and it's just not as capable as it once was.

At the same time, though, it's a pretty easy language to pick up and in the right hands, it's just as capable as any other server-side language.

With the current Surface incarnation, the Sasmung SUR40, costing $8,400, the lower-priced EXOdesk seems like a fun device even if it's not as capable.

While the Iraqi military is less than half as capable as it was in 1991, when it suffered a devastating defeat, this will be a different kind of war with different military objectives.

You are as capable as anyone else to be great.

Yet the DPJ has still to convince voters that it is as capable of ruling as it is of obstruction; or, indeed, that its private if autocratic leader even wants to lead the country.

It is as capable of delighting audiences now as it must have been at its Royal Ballet premiere in London in 1960.

There is a warm heart beating under the shell, and it is as capable of shattering as anyone else's.