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Example sentences for "capability"

Lexicographically close words:
caol; caoutchouc; cap; capa; capabilities; capable; capables; capably; capacious; capacitated
  1. I would like to see at least a capability of my counsel being able to talk to these witnesses freely and that you or the FBI give a release on them with respect to being able to discuss it as it involves me.

  2. Would Mr. Oswald possess the capability to complete such a shot which did, in this situation, strike the President in the back of the head?

  3. But if a taper pin be made too nearly parallel, it will drive through too easily, and has less capability to take up the play due to wear.

  4. This is a very substantial method of obtaining a desirable and important object, and greatly enhances the gripping capability of the vice.

  5. It is made from half round wire and is parallel, and does not, therefore, possess the capability of being tightened when the nut has become loosened from wear.

  6. It is obvious that it is the capability of G to rotate in their sockets that enables F to be set at an angle and still have the teeth of G engage properly with those on the base plate.

  7. The means by which this capability of minute adjustment is effected is shown in Fig.

  8. The Japanese defenders in their caves, and in northern Peleliu and on Ngesebus, retained some capability to harass American rear installations, but that was sharply curtailed by the Marines’ counterfire.

  9. It insured total denial of support to the enemy from Koror’s submarine basing facilities, incrementally decreasing the already waning Japanese submarine capability east of the Philippines.

  10. The Pocket’s defenders thereafter retained only the capability to harass and delay the Americans, to annoy them with intermittent attacks by fire and with night-time raids.

  11. In point of fact, Rupertus’ successful seizure of Ngesebus and northern Peleliu had terminated the enemy’s capability to reinforce the now-isolated Japanese on Peleliu.

  12. Although the Japanese still had some observation over the now operating airfield and rear areas, their reduced capability was to harass rather than to threaten.

  13. All Marine commanders had been alerted to the Japanese capability to make an armored attack on D-Day, and were well prepared.

  14. Only two significant Japanese capabilities remained: they could bitterly resist from their cave positions and they had a limited capability to reinforce Peleliu from Babelthuap.

  15. Confidence is not wanting in certain quarters, though capability may be a matter of more dubiety.

  16. The grounds were laid out in part by Capability Brown, and seemed to me even more beautiful than those of Blenheim.

  17. I have heard the highest praises of the capability of Mr. Thomas, whom I have to thank particularly for the interest he takes in my Symphonic Poems.

  18. I hasten therefore to assure you of the sincere esteem in which I hold his remarkable talent as a violinist and his capability as an orchestral conductor.

  19. Hitherto his keen brain, his strong will, his capability for decisive action, had carried him onward from past to present, through present to future.

  20. To this capability of listening without interruption Tait owed a great deal of his popularity.

  21. Some Liberals have had the want of wit, without our going so far as to say the lack of capability of feeling, to express surprise at the faithful respect shown to Lord Beaconsfield by his present colleagues.

  22. His thorough capability and great energy were factors in the success of the business which he established and of which he remained the head until his death.

  23. The business record of Mr. Gohier has gained for him confidence and good-will as well as substantial success, and his prosperity has been the merited reward of his capability and indefatigable enterprise.

  24. His long connection with the customs office plainly indicates his fidelity, capability and promptness in the discharge of his duties.

  25. He became a clerk in the Bank of Montreal, worked his way upward until his experience, combined with his recognized capability led to his assignment to a responsible position with the New York city branch of the Bank of Montreal.

  26. He met various hardships, but he proved his fidelity to the company as well as his capability in performing every service intrusted to him.

  27. Their clientage is now extensive, and the volume of their business is justified by the capability of the members of the firm.

  28. Capability and loyalty are the essential attributes of the man who would fill the office of chief inspector of industrial establishments and public buildings and properly perform the arduous and responsible duties thereby devolving upon him.

  29. Mailloux, a hardware merchant on St. Paul Street in Montreal, with whom he remained for thirteen years, his capability and fidelity being attested by his long connection with the house.

  30. During the twelve years he served the company he won promotion from time to time until he became chief clerk, his capability and fidelity thus winning him recognition and gaining for him substantial advancement.

  31. Although his start in life was comparatively unimportant, he soon demonstrated his capability and proved that he was worthy of confidence and support.

  32. Fidelity, industry and capability won him promotion from time to time and after twenty years’ continuous connection with the company he was appointed to the position of general manager in 1895.

  33. In September, 1912, Mr. Geoffrion was appointed by Quebec to the position of recorder of the city of Montreal and is now filling that office with the same capability and fidelity that he has displayed in other positions.

  34. The skill itself becomes in this way mechanical, and gets the capability of letting the machine take the place of human labour.

  35. In the beginning the action of Intellect was only partial; that which was primarily moved was only imperfectly sorted, and contained in itself the capability of many separations.

  36. I have carefully abstained from all indefinite eulogies, which merely serve to prove a disproportion betwixt the feeling and the capability of expressing it.

  37. Our time for these last two days has been occupied in making a sketch of the entrance into the river, and, as far as our limited means would permit, in ascertaining its capability to receive small vessels.

  38. It was the peculiarity of Jesus that he saw the precious capability of every nature, even in the very dust of defilement.

  39. The vicar of Framley might perhaps have been regarded as such a Mentor, were it not for that capability of adapting himself to the company immediately around him on which he so much piqued himself.

  40. She had not a word now to say as to her husband's capability of judging for himself.

  41. In the first place, it keeps the mother on his side; in the second, he looks forward to supplying this capability with a strictly personal object.

  42. But no one will deny a woman's capability to teach, even though so many have gone into the office that have no right there; for mere ability is not enough.

  43. While the man is wooing the daughter, this wondrous capability for an absorbing affection strikes him as a very pretty thing.

  44. How I felt at that moment a capability of clear, bright meditation, which was as new to me, as I believe it would have been to most Londoners in my position.


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