Sentence examples for suspects were able from inspiring English sources

The 18 suspects were able to take on new identities, cross borders to places like Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, and avoid the police.

The five suspects were able to hide or escape the barrage, according to tribal sources and security officials in Marib Province, 100 miles east of the capital, Sana.

The police source said: "There is a strong likelihood that the suspects were able to flee in the morning by parachute before police arrived".

Suspects were able to plead guilty and pay a paltry fine or, if they chose to contest the case, could be confident that it would be dismissed due to procedural irregularities.

And no doubt he was hobbled by the Dorset constabulary's apparent exclusion from a national criminal identity database – how else to explain why two main suspects were able to conceal their criminal pasts of child abuse and murder?

Because of poor coordination, two suspects were able to enter this country even after their names had been placed on a watch list, and the jet fighters that scrambled after the Federal Aviation Administration notification of the hijackings arrived too late.

Craig said: "How can Ihat do its job effectively if suspects are able to keep tabs on the criminal investigation against them?

As you track down murderers and interrogate suspects, being able to determine whether they're telling the truth or lying like a low-down dirty rat is obviously essential to cracking the case.

Romantic, gauche and "as iconoclastic as a Charles and Di wedding mug", she was the kind of teenager with whom many readers will, I suspect, be able to identify.

The Home Office is facing more embarrassment over the monitoring of terror suspects as new details emerge of the apparent ease with which a Somali-born suspect was able to escape surveillance last Friday.

Some have suggested it would represent a major security lapse if a high-profile terror suspect was able to launch such an attack, the deadliest of its kind in Turkey.