Sentence examples for serious capable from inspiring English sources

He was asked about Netanyahu during his visit and, according to notes I saw, responded: "I believe Netanyahu is serious, capable and interested in reaching an agreement.

"We have a tennis integrity unit, with serious and capable people running it," Helfant says.

But when Apple released the G5 iMac (August 2004), the consumer desktop had become a serious contender, capable of real processing.

Energetic and hard-working, he believed that Russia's often chaotic, high-stakes business world had become calmer and more civilised, and he wanted to produce a serious publication capable of contributing to this improved environment.

Mr. Gates was right when he warned of America's dwindling patience with allies "unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense".

It's a serious organizer, capable of running add-on programs; it can, surprisingly, record tiny 10-second videos (with sound, if you use the T-Mobile version); and it's the only phone whose memory you can expand to hold more pictures (by inserting a Multimedia Memory Card).

There are two distinct ways to watch television: to let it wash over you like pure popcorn entertainment (as I do with soaps like "Nashville" and "Scandal," and comedies like "Broad City" and "New Girl"), or to approach it as a serious text, capable of withstanding repeat viewings and deep conversations and, in theory, ambitious hopes for a graceful finale.

For all the wry cheek of those pieces, the concert ended on a grandiloquent note with Bruno Mantovani's Chamber Concerto No. 2. A resourceful and satisfying sequence of deftly balanced weights and shades, potent solo passages for individual members and a gripping quarter-tone unison melody, this pungent work was a striking reminder of how serious and capable the Eighth Blackbird members are.

"The blunt reality," Mr. Gates said, "is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense".

After "Spring Breakers," there will be no turning back for the two, nor any confusion about how they'd like to be perceived — not just as serious actors capable of more than just riling up tweens, but as rebels playing fast and loose with their images.

If you're serious and capable, you can do it, too.