The episode has embarrassed Mrs. Merkel as she seeks to muster political capital to deal with the euro crisis.
Alfred Chandler, the doyen of business historians, regarded family companies as relics of an earlier era that found it hard to muster the capital and talent needed to compete.
Only the likes of PwC and Deloitte can muster the capital and technology (and relatively cheap labour) to industrialise the artisanal model of legal practice that has endured so long.
However, this assessment could prove overly cautious if the inventory rebuild proves up to typical business cycle muster, with capital spending accelerating quickly as confidence builds.
Some analysts questioned whether Mr. Singh could muster the political capital in India to carry through with a Pakistan visit if Pakistan did not first take action against Mr. Saeed.
On matters ranging from affirmative action to campaign finance reform to gun control to property rights, Bush-era conservatives petitioned the Supreme Court — sometimes successfully, sometimes not — to declare unconstitutional policies that could have been changed legislatively, had the Republican majority been able to muster the political capital to do it.
Delivered with all the pomp a no-nonsense capital can muster, it gives the president the chance to share his vision for the nation and the world.
During the siege, the Philippine secretaries of defence and foreign affairs, along with the country's top military brass, gathered in a crisis room at the military headquarters in the capital to muster support for the Filipino forces and help ensure their safety.
The provinces and the young turned on Milosevic with a venom that the dithering, protest-by-news-conference political dilettantes of the capital could never muster.
While still at school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia's (and Serbia's) capital, he dared muster a petition against a law that made the country's untouchable post-war dictator, Marshal Tito, president for life.
