Sentence examples for previously able from inspiring English sources

Termites, never previously able to withstand Chicago's winters, would start gorging on wooden frames.

A family or a single parent who was previously able to support three or four children could, overnight, find themselves in a very different situation.

According to the company, one large furniture retailer was previously able to monitor visitor frequency only by examining credit card purchases.

The feeding problems could, in part, be due to an increase in entanglements with more durable types of rope than those the whales were previously able to break.

The author has received a succession of international awards for his work and was previously able to travel overseas to receive them.

The latter, once called "blue-collar aristocrats", consists of families who were previously able to get by with jobs not requiring college degrees.

As discussed above in the section The origin of species, speciation involves the development of reproductive isolation between populations previously able to interbreed.

Several of these cases are now in the hands of Sergio Moro, a Curitiba-based judge who has become a nationwide celebrity thanks to his willingness to imprison rich and powerful people who were previously able to enjoy impunity.

Now look at the difference," she says, citing increased numbers of disabled athletes at athletics tracks, as well as more opportunities for disabled athletes to compete at previously able-bodied-only events.

(Fashions change, and previously "uncast able" composers like Handel and Rossini are today easier to perform than Verdi).

But nobody has previously been able to make them in any quantity.