Sentence examples for retain a capacity from inspiring English sources

"They retain a capacity to be able to perceive light".

Talk of a move to England or a European league has subsided for now; Wednesday's events proved these two teams retain a capacity for fever-pitch fare in their own backyard.

In fact, after six years of dishonesty and alarmism, it seems especially important — if challenging — to retain a capacity for grave, calibrated concern about the proliferation of nuclear aspirant states and their proud ties to terrorist networks.

And she is unimpressed by the idea that our governments are using the "the power of nightmares" to scare us, arguing that it is "especially important... to retain a capacity for grave calibrated concern about the proliferation of nuclear aspirant states and their proud ties to terrorist networks".

Interestingly, Ward's mature philosophy comprises a defense of human freedom and sustains the idea that independently of circumstances outside of our control we always retain a capacity for responsible action.

"The results demonstrate for the first time that individual cells isolated from hair follicles can be cultured in the laboratory and retain a capacity to make multiple cell types when grafted," says Fuchs.

GERHARD SCHRÖDER, the German chancellor, certainly retains a capacity to surprise.

But Helen always retained a capacity for penetrating observation and ironic comment on the mores of her adopted country.

So Many Ways to Begin employed the same palette but applied it to a smaller canvas, homing in on a single life while retaining a capacity for lyricism.

Cuba has escaped the worst effects of neoliberal "reform", and its government retains a capacity to defend its people from disaster.

Mr. Young was a man of very high principle, who despite all he had seen retained a capacity to be shocked by political mendacity.