Sentence examples for the capability to strike from inspiring English sources

That means they have the capability to strike the United States".

In fact, as early as May 1944 the U.S. Army Air Forces had the capability to strike Auschwitz at will.

"And while Russia has the capability to strike us with a nuclear weapon, dropping a bomb on us tomorrow would be way wide of [President Vladimir ] Putins strategic intent and would have utterly catastrophic consequences for Russia itself".

In the future, we cannot rule out that terrorist groups could gain the capability to strike us with nuclear weapons if they seized even temporary control of a state with an existing nuclear weapons establishment.

The naval base on Jeju Island will equip South Koreans and their American allies with the capability to strike long-range ballistic missile batteries in southeast China that target Japan or Taiwan.

Although Mugniyah has concentrated on anti-Jewish activities, he is believed to have the capability to strike at America; his agents have conducted video surveillance of possible American targets in South America and Southeast Asia, and he is suspected of having established links with Al Qaeda.

Cameron says the response has to come from countries with the military capability to strike Syria.

"While some believe Boko Haram will focus only on targets within Nigeria and does not have the intent or capability to strike the U.S. homeland, the same was believed about AQAP and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, before the near fatal attacks over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 and in Times Square in May 2010," Meehan said in a statement.

Libyan planes have neither the range, nor the mid-air refueling capability, to strike the capital from bases in the east, and lack night-bombing equipment.

Kim Jong-un has boasted of North Korea's "sure capability" to strike US targets in the Pacific after his military carried out an apparently successful test of its Musudan medium-range missile.

Vice President Dick Cheney was known to be a strong advocate of direct action against the facilities, either through covert means or by helping Israel build up its capability to strike.