Sentence examples for nearly capable from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sullenberger's airplane, an Airbus A320, was nearly capable of guiding itself gently to the ground, even after losing both of its engines.

The turning circle of the Nano -- about 13 feet -- is undoubtedly one of its best parlor tricks; it is nearly capable of doing a 360-degree turn in its own tiny shadow.

The turning circle of the Nano is undoubtedly one of its best parlor tricks: With a turning radius of only 4 meters, or 13 feet, the Nano is nearly capable of doing a 360-degree turn in its own tiny shadow.

At full volume, the audio system maintains its tight fidelity and is nearly capable of bursting eardrums.

As Cicero had explained in the final days of the Roman Republic 2,000 years earlier, 'the sinews of war are infinite money.' The U.S. economy at the dawn of the 21st century was more nearly capable of producing those sinews than any other economy the world has ever known".

I walked right through the security line, blending in with the stream of well-heeled GOP donors and activists, despite toting a bulky black bag nearly capable of holding a suitcase nuclear bomb.

But when it turns to a difficult economic environment, they're not nearly as capable.

But it is widely agreed that Iraqi insurgents are not nearly as capable as the Northern Alliance was in Afghanistan.

Similarly, Jolly Abraham is nicely urgent as Viola under pressure yet isn't nearly as capable when showing her passions.

A week ago, panic was about to set in at the television political talk shows: the most talked-about man in America, Bill Clinton, was ready to make his exit, leaving the stage to two guys who did not seem nearly as capable of stirring the public's pulse.

According to Boston Consulting Group, a typical annual salary for an Indian IT engineer is $5,000 and for a graduate with a masters degree in business $7,500 about one-tenth of their American equivalents.The missing half-millionNASSCOM-McKinsey, however, also forecasts a shortfall, on current trends, of nearly 500,000 capable graduates by 2010, with BPO much worse affected than IT.