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How to use the word capability in a Sentence?

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Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As is always the case with PLA exercises in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea areas, Beijing is telling the United States, regional countries, Taiwan Island and its own people, that the PLA has the capability to conduct blockade and joint air and missile strikes on targets in and around Taiwan Island.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wouldn’t call it a true full alliance in the real meaning of that word, but we are seeing them moving closer together, and that’s troublesome, and then … Iran is the third. So those three countries together are going to be problematic for many years to come I think, especially Russia and China because of their capability.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Complications in some areas include decades of over-pumping of groundwater, leading to land subsidence and decreased groundwater storage capability – you can see a couple of low well readings in the San Joaquin Valley, more realistically, there is a bit of lingering ‘groundwater drought’ in northeastern and southeastern California.

Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is part of this government’s agenda to give the ADF the best possible capability, to give it greater ability to provide long-range strike and keep any potential adversary at bay, this is how we promote peace and stability by putting question marks in any potential adversary’s mind.

Pat Conroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re training and equipping several brigades of mechanized infantry — that’s a pretty substantial capability, in addition to that, additional artillery, and so they’ll have the ability to breach Russian defenses and maneuver, and I think that will create a different dynamic.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the things that we’re doing, the capability that we’re providing – again, capability, not just a platform – the capabilities that we’re providing I think will enable the Ukrainians begin to change the dynamics on the battlefield, and so rather than having a stalemate, what you’ll probably see is Ukrainians shaping this fight so they can create opportunities for themselves and exploit those opportunities going forward.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Low dispersal capability, small population size, and relatively low reproductive output make them susceptible to environmental disturbance.

Jemina Stuart-Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was the one that asked the Pentagon to fund, this was not an Elon thing, we stopped interacting with the Pentagon on the existing capability. They are not paying.

Gwynne Shotwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Neutron is a new generation of rocket that will advance the way space is accessed, and Virginia makes perfect sense as a significant site for Neutron’s early development, its position on the eastern seaboard is the ideal location to support both Neutron’s expected frequent launch cadence and the rocket’s return-to-Earth capability of landing back at its launch site after lift-off.

Rocket Lab

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We'll have some capability. Not a very good capability, but we'll have some if it comes to that, how we're going to utilize them is still being planned out.

Norfolk Southern spokesman Connor Spielmaker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are not on a path to transition to zero emissions anytime soon — certainly not in 2050, we just don't have the physical capability of zero-emissions energy.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The investment to add satellite capability should not be underestimated. It will likely have taken Apple years to put all the pieces of the puzzle in place including a commercial agreement with satellite provider Globalstar and the creation of the infrastructure needed to pass messages to the emergency services.

Ben Wood

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We just don't have the storage capability right now because of the sheer number that we're seeing.

Corinne Stern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a structural problem with the oil and gas industry and that has to do with refining capability, oil companies, not just in the Jeff Klearman but globally, have not expanded refining capacity. That continues to pressure gas prices.

Jeff Klearman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One accident with a nuclear power plant leads to irreversible damage to both human lives and the environment. The executives of companies that operate such plants also have a huge responsibility on them that is incomparable with other companies, i think the court's judgment says that anyone who does not have the determination or capability to take on that responsibility should not become an executive.

Yui Kimura

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think the court's judgment says that anyone who does not have the determination or capability to take on that responsibility should not become an executive.

Yui Kimura

Found on CNN
1 year ago

.What I found in the intelligence … is that international terror organizations like al Qaeda, ISIS and many others were intentionally creating a gap in our detection capability specific to the dog, they were kind of gearing it to avoid detection by a dog.

John Pappas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Now we have permanent loss of some purification capability in Mariupol and Odessa.

Jonas Sundqvist

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But it just became a cascading effect of how overwhelming all of that became when they tried to do even the most simple of operations. we’re going to learn a little bit about how we think about capability and use as not one and the same when you assess outcome.

Sue Gordon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We’re going to learn a little bit about how we think about capability and use as not one and the same when you assess outcome.

Sue Gordon

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The public private partnership is really a benefit to NASA and it will allow us to have the capability to use, and then as well, they will have it so that they can provide it for non-NASA customers, so it's a shared investment where we're both getting something out of it.

Vanessa Wyche

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have seen, regrettably, clear evidence that al Shabaab has the intent and capability to target Americans.

The US

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Their sensing capability to danger is low, or they have been exhausted during mating, or just could not perform the catapult.

Shichang Zhang

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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