For months past I have been doing my best to keep off this catastrophe, & to try to make my mother see what an unjust & mistaken attitude she was being led to take; but you know how completely she is controlled by the emotion of the moment, & how little capable she is... of forming an independent judgment".
In this sense they are on the same footing as other scientific laws, and as little capable of suspension.
Working that lever instantly turns the Fit into a little van capable of handling 57.3 cubic feet of cargo, more than any of its subcompact rivals.
The successful advance of the militants shows that the Iraqi army is little more capable of resisting Isis than when it lost Mosul and Tikrit in June.
McAfee, who made his fortune by founding and selling the antivirus software which bears his name, said that the device would cost less than $100 and would be a "round, little thing", capable of fitting into a pocket or backpack.
"It's worth looking at what would be the costs and advantages of making hospitals a little more capable of withstanding a flood of a certain height," he said.
Now, you would think the British athletes would be a little more capable of seizing home field advantage, especially with the weather constantly reminding them they're in London.
The newspapers of the day, high on fin-de-siècle fear and loathing – in the 1890s, children were no longer innocents; they were little beasts, capable of all sorts of savage doings – thought him a "monster of depravity".
First stop was a five sq km (1.9 sq miles) enclosed area of dusty ground with little shade – capable of holding 100,000 animals – where they undergo blood tests to check for disease before shipment.
Deborah McAndrew's adaptation transposes the action from the Russian steppes to an obscure Pennine town where people speak as they find: Howard Chadwick's bluff council leader is, perhaps a little surprisingly, capable of quoting Plato, if only to observe that "it proves folk had learned to talk out of their arses 2,000 years ago".
Nothing, in short, that a little capital, capable management and demand from the new casinos nearby couldn't cure.
