Sentence examples for were quite capable of from inspiring English sources

And a small but vocal minority — Noam Chomsky, Katha Pollitt, Tariq Ali — were quite capable of making their views known".

Palestinians were quite capable of wanting Hamas-style "resistance" with their hearts but peace talks with their heads, he said.

Renaissance Europeans were quite capable of recognising its brilliance — but it made no difference to their behaviour.

They were quite capable of circumventing the camera's built-in perspective system to produce spaces more like those of Japanese screens and scrolls.

Many insisted that journalists were quite capable of deciding which information is too dangerous to publish – and which information the public has a right to knew.

They convinced me that they had been speaking to an academic audience at Harvard, but they were quite capable of switching languages".

He's quite capable of winning gold".

"In technological terms, we are quite capable of this.

I am quite capable of leading my own care.

But she was quite capable of hyperbole and exaggeration.

The Iraqi combat forces are quite capable of internal defense".