Sentence examples for were able to forge from inspiring English sources

We were able to forge those partnerships several years ago".

Yet a few great presidents were able to forge their own legacies.

By broadening the scope, China and the United States were able to forge common cause on issues like North Korea.

It was only by stressing a new-found ethnicity of their own that the Turks were able to forge a post-Ottoman country founded on the Western model.

The extent to which a small group of disaffected Muslim youths from one London neighbourhood were able to forge contacts with senior al-Qaida figures is becoming clearer since one of their number was named as the hooded militant behind the Islamic State (Isis) killings.

Therefore the banks were able to forge an alliance — if PNB attempted to compete unfairly against any one of them, they would simply implement bilateral switching among themselves and cut MAC out entirely.

"It would be nice to be able to forge a working relationship with someone," she said.

They ought to be able to forge a political consensus on how to move ahead.

The days of city governments being able to forge ahead on their own are long gone.

But Mr. Hall never was able to forge a durable alliance with the New Left.

With his long experience on Capitol Hill, officials said he would be able to forge better ties to Congress.