Sentence examples similar to nearest able from inspiring English sources

I suppose that its nearest able-bodied relative is the French sport of boule, or our own village green game of bowls.

At this point I was nowhere near able to start a book in Russian, let alone finish one.

"A family on average income is nowhere near able to afford a house at the average price.

"A family on an average income is nowhere near able to afford a house at the average price," Mr Cable is quoted as saying.

So I might suggest they think they have a working prototype, but they are not anywhere near able to mass produce it in a repeatable way, before they can even think about taking it to a factory for real production".

There is some debate among Muslims about which approach is better, especially since the nearest butchers able to handle the sacrifices for Long Island families are in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; there is none on the Island.

But he is nowhere near being able to play.

The Kosovo intervention just about attained its objectives, though this new nation-state is nowhere near being able to stand on its own two feet.

We're nowhere near being able to choose our doctor; we're lucky if we get to pick the city we're treated in.

The second is that the Department for Homeland Security, which oversees border operations, is anywhere near being able to provide the kinds of statistics upon which the senators squabbling over immigration reform in Washington are resting their arguments.

With that one sorted out, bioethicists now tend to worry more about the future possible use of PGD as a route to enhanced human beings, by selecting embryos with desirable traits (the usual examples here are intelligence and height, neither of which we are anywhere near being able to identify genetically).