Sentence examples for was not only able from inspiring English sources

"He was not only able to break the shackles of bigotry and bias and hate, but he did it without internalising the battles he was fighting".

Luckily, the composer Stanley Clarke was not only able to write the music but also to provide a performer: his son, Christopher, an up-and-coming rapper.

As a result, during the 2007/08 food price crisis, Malawi was not only able to feed its population, but became a bread basket to the region.

Something shifted for me in that moment; I was not only able to understand the essential need for humor when telling a story but to access it as well.

Israel was not only able to get all these benefits up front but, with the U.S. and American Jews turning a blind eye, and the Palestinians in a weakened state, Israel was able to keep on seizing Palestinian land to expand settlements in the West Bank.

Bělohlávek regards the work as one of the composer's greatest achievements: "In Julietta, Martinů was not only able to build and sustain the necessary dramatic thread of the surrealist story and libretto, but did so using his unique musical language with a brilliance and skill that can only fill us with admiration.

"We are not only able to say to people that they should take out a policy," Seifert said.

It is our friends that are, not only able to increase our self-confidence, but can create it.

"They are not only able to develop sophisticated software but have also been able to develop websites that people are directed to by emails.

But over time they were not only able to talk to the family but even convince them to share a meal with the offender's family.

He soon discovers that he's not only able to slightly bend the laws of gravity, but can completely throw them out the window.