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1. He could barely see through the streams of water running across his horn-rimmed, circular, bottle glasses, and to look at him dripping and sodden in brown tweed and corduroy waistcoat, as thin as a rake and far too short to be a policeman, you would think him incapable of exerting the slightest force upon fresh air
2. ‘Yes, but in one piece, there’s no good getting there and finding you are incapable of doing anything because you have overdone it
3. Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary
4. They are incapable of pushing out others to pull in their self
5. He knows that the man in front of him wants to run away as far and as fast as he can, but he also knows that the man is in shock, is physically incapable of moving, facing as he is the sharp end of a nine millimetre pistol
6. incapable of masking his emotions
7. Silently she was planning ways to avoid, the emotions she couldn't explain, and felt incapable of handling right then
8. Now, you lend us mere apprentices, children incapable of elevating a pebble let alone a twelve ton stone
9. A half-starved Highland woman frequently bears more than twenty children, while a pampered fine lady is often incapable of bearing any, and is generally exhausted by two or three
10. He sometimes demands rent for what is altogether incapable of human improvements
11. In 1731, they obtained an order of council, prohibiting both the planting of new vineyards, and the renewal of these old ones, of which the cultivation had been interrupted for two years, without a particular permission from the king, to be granted only in consequence of an information from the intendant of the province, certifying that he had examined the land, and that it was incapable of any other culture
12. He may have been incapable of feeling love, but the shame cascaded in
13. He seemed incapable of holding them in one direction for more than a single second
14. For a being that was incapable of emotion, he seemed almost excited for what laid ahead
15. That indolence which is the natural effect of the ease and security of their situation, renders them too often, not only ignorant, but incapable of that application of mind, which is necessary in order to foresee and understand the consequence of any public regulation
16. But though the interest of the labourer is strictly connected with that of the society, he is incapable either of comprehending that interest, or of understanding its connexion with his own
17. were incapable of reacting correctly in face of less
18. motto, but how I was incapable of following it
19. After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before
20. And he was incapable of silence
21. "They've tried many times but… they're simply incapable of dealing with this issue
22. "Curious though," said the collector, "that this woman you spoke of should arrive at your chambers, claiming to be incapable of feeding herself
23. Not that she's incapable of good decisions as a rule, it's just that
24. In consequence of the representations of Columbus, the council of Castile determined to take possession of the countries of which the inhabitants were plainly incapable of defending themselves
25. “If the Legion is perceived to be incapable of or uninterested in stopping the killing, especially by DRAFTChapter 19 501
26. Distant clanging of ships’ bells and the groan of a fog horn immediately followed his aching questions, almost seeming to offer answers incapable of parsing
27. Besides these rather monstrous qualities, she was undoubtedly a person incapable of giving or receiving love
28. The Cape of Good Hope was inhabited by a race of people almost as barbarous, and quite as incapable of defending themselves, as the natives of America
29. But a company of merchants, are, it seems, incapable of considering themselves as sovereigns, even after they have become such
30. In several of the ancient states of Greece, foreign trade was prohibited altogether; and in several others, the employments of artificers and manufacturers were considered as hurtful to the strength and agility of the human body, as rendering it incapable of those habits which their military and gymnastic exercises endeavoured to form in it, and as thereby disqualifying it, more or less, for undergoing the fatigues and encountering the dangers of war
31. An industrious, and, upon that account, a wealthy nation, is of all nations the most likely to be attacked ; and unless the state takes some new measure for the public defence, the natural habits of the people render them altogether incapable of defending themselves
32. undisciplined militia, incapable of resisting the attack of the German and Scythian militias, which soon afterwards invaded the western empire
33. They soon found that their safety depended upon their doing so, and that their own militia was altogether incapable of resisting the attack of such an army
34. In 1730, their affairs were in so great disorder, that they were altogether incapable of maintaining their forts and garrisons, the sole purpose and pretext of their institution
35. In other respects, he commonly returns home more conceited, more unprincipled, more dissipated, and more incapable of my serious application, either to study or to business, than he could well have become in so short a time had he lived at home
36. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life
37. Of the great and extensive interests of his country he is altogether incapable of judging; and unless very particular pains have been taken to render him otherwise, he is equally incapable of defending his country in war
38. It corrupts even the activity of his body, and renders him incapable of exerting his strength with vigour and perseverance in any other employment, than that to which he has been bred
39. But a coward, a man incapable either of defending or of revenging himself, evidently wants one of the most essential parts of the character of a man
40. In this respect, the teachers of a new religion have always had a considerable advantage in attacking those ancient and established systems, of which the clergy, reposing themselves upon their benefices, had neglected to keep up the fervour of faith and devotion in the great body of the people; and having given themselves up to indolence, were become altogether incapable of making any vigorous exertion in defence even of their own establishment
41. It was thus that the Roman catholic clergy called upon the civil magistrate to persecute the protestants, and the church of England to persecute the dissenters; and that in general every religious sect, when it has once enjoyed, for a century or two, the security of a legal establishment, has found itself incapable of making any vigorous defence against any new sect which chose to attack its doctrine or discipline
42. They are listened to, esteemed, and respected by their superiors; but before their inferiors they are frequently incapable of defending, effectually, and to the conviction of such hearers, their own sober and moderate doctrines, against the most ignorant enthusiast who chooses to attack them
43. But it is impossible that they should continue to do so for any considerable time; and if they did, the tax would soon ruin them so completely, as to render them altogether incapable of supporting the state
44. Thirdly, the hope of evading such taxes by smuggling, gives frequent occasion to forfeitures and other penalties, which entirely ruin the smuggler ; a person who, though no doubt highly blameable for violating the laws of his country, is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been, in every respect
45. But the greater part of European governments have been incapable of those attentions
46. If I was incapable, that would be different
47. From what I see and read, they are mostly incapable of understanding even simple legal arguments, but I understand that for those of you who are used to a jury system this may seem wrong
48. They splashed about in the beginner’s pool as an increasingly frustrated instructor tried to teach them the basic principles of swimming, all to no avail as they were “obviously f commies and longhaired liberals in disguise incapable of f learning to swim
49. Character, on the other hand, is a qualitative or subjective standard incapable of being measured although it is correctly understood that some people possess more Character than others
50. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods