Chinese scholars have succeeded in deciphering some of the documents discovered, so that we are able to learn a great deal from them.
Thus the picture we are able to give today has no finality about it and will need many modifications.
Until about thirty years ago our knowledge of the earliest times in China depended entirely on Chinese documents of much later date; now we are able to rely on many excavations which enable us to check the written sources.
Only by prudence, sagacity, and determination we are able to realize great objects and surmount all obstacles; otherwise all our efforts will prove unavailing.
They want to dictate to us a new war from Paris, without knowing whether we are able to bear it or not.
This scholar mixed up the inquiry into the historical value of those statements in Chronicles which we are able to control, with the other question as to the probable sources of its variations from the older historical books of the canon.
In this case also we are able to discern considerable shades and gradations in the sources the reviser had at command.
We can trace first of all the influence on the tradition of that specific prophetism which we are able to follow from Amos onwards.
The general basis which serves as starting-point for the historical fiction being thus far recognisable, we are able also to gain a closer view of its concrete material.
The organic world is built on the ruins of the inorganic, and because the solid rocks have been broken down into soil men are able to live upon the earth.
Tide glaciers, such as those of Greenland and Alaska, are able to excavate their beds to a considerable distance below sea level.
As deposition in the sea corresponds to denudation on the land, we are able to make a general estimate of the rate at which the former process is going on.
This being granted, we are able to verify all our ideas, for, through reflection, we can revive and reconstruct the ideas we had formed without any reflection.
Their point of view is the only one at which the graduated multitudes below them are ableto accept.
It is only the Shakespeares and Balzacs who are able to make their Shylocks and lagos, their Grandets and Philippe Brideaus, monsters and human beings at one and the same time.
Return here at midnight, and I shall be ready to celebrate the only funeral service that we are able to offer in expiation of the crime of which you speak.
It matters nothing really to the infinite forces around us, whether physically speaking, we are able to see, or whether we are born blind; but spiritually, it is the chief necessity of our lives that we should be able to see straight morally.
All is well wherever we hear His Voice;--all things work for the best when we are able to perceive His command clearly, and have strength and resolution enough to forsake our sins and follow Him.
But not only the remorse of a criminal which is personified by the Furies, even his unrighteous acts nay, the real perpetration of a crime, are able to please us in a work of art.
We are pleased with the spectacle of the sensuous infinite, because we are able to attain by thought what the senses can no longer embrace and what the understanding cannot grasp.
Next to such an Intimacy with a particular Person, one would endeavour after a more general Conversation with such as are able to entertain and improve those with whom they converse, which are Qualifications that seldom go asunder.
Mariamne had all the Charms that Beauty, Birth, Wit and Youth could give a Woman, and Herod all the Love that such Charms are able to raise in a warm and amorous Disposition.
Not the warmest Expressions of Affection, the softest and most tender Hypocrisy, are able to give any Satisfaction, where we are not persuaded that the Affection is real and the Satisfaction mutual.
For the earlier centuries we lack precise data, but we are able to form certain probable conclusions.
But the prime right of all, the right of the child to the best ability that his parentsare able to transmit to him, is never even so much as considered.
On the other hand our people must keep steadily before their minds the fact that the justification for our stay in the Philippines must ultimately rest chiefly upon the good we are ableto do in the islands.
And it is easier to pay any sum when we are ablethan it is to pay it before we are able.
If therefore we are able to deal radically with destitution we shall at the same time strike an effective blow at the pestilences which are at present such a scourge to India.
I and many of my officers have begged our food as religious mendicants, so that we, are able to speak from experience!
True we are able to supply skilled leadership under devoted and self-sacrificing men and women for a merely nominal cost.
And yet when we come face to face with the details of the scheme, we find that the scale of our operations must necessarily depend on the amount of capital with which we are able to start.
By means of fancy, we are able to understand things more lofty than those of common knowledge, and in them we recognize the idea itself as real.
If we are able to welcome Him as our judge and deliverer in our present day, we shall be able to do so also on "the last day.
We are able in spirit to cross their lowly threshold, and to understand all that took place in that humble home: for human hearts and human sorrows are the same in every age.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are able" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
