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incapable English

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What does incapable mean?

incapable

(followed by 'of') lacking capacity or ability incapable of carrying a tune he is incapable of understanding the matter incapable of doing the work not being susceptible to or admitting of something (usually followed by 'of') incapable of solution (followed by 'of') not having the temperament or inclination for simply incapable of lying (= unequal to) not meeting requirements unequal to the demands put upon him

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Topics incapable topics

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Simple sentences

Tom is legally incapable.
Ostriches are incapable of flight.
He is incapable of telling a lie.
She is incapable of doing anything alone.
There are so many people in the world who are incapable of outgrowing the level of their stomach!
Mary is incapable of expressing compassion.
I'm incapable of drinking coffee without sugar.
Young children are incapable of abstract thinking.
He is incapable of using credit cards wisely.
The child was incapable of understanding his father's death.
A baby is incapable of taking care of itself.
I'm incapable of focusing.
I'm incapable of concentrating.
I am incapable of not procrastinating.
I am incapable of understanding their world.

Movie subtitles

The police prove incapable of finding the least trace of the missing bank messenger.
The charges are that Mr. Deeds is insane and incapable of handling the estate.
She was incapable of love. or tenderness or decency.
Because you're incapable of it.
You seem incapable of understanding.
My cousin Mr. Chia regrets having been incapable. of expressing his gratitude in person.
I was too confused, too horrified, incapable of doing anything.
Don't you see? I was incapable of thinking that far ahead.
I was incapable of thinking at all.
I told him it was absurd. that I knew you, and that you were incapable of anything of the kind.
He was just telling the truth - something you're incapable of doing.
Mr. Kringle is incapable of either.
Why, you're an insufferable snob incapable of recognizing genuine character.
A woman completely incapable of feeling.
It's the truth expressed by someone incapable of lying.
Since Gov. Steed is incapable, you should appoint a stronger man.
The charges are that Mr Deeds is insane and incapable of handling the estate.
I'm incapable of loving anyone.
Or are you purely and simply incapable of doing your work?
I think you're incapable of any emotion higher up than your stomach.
That unfortunate small-minded milieu that surrounded Lisinski was incapable of understanding him.
I do hope the great haste in which we're assembling this slapdash repast is not gonna affect me and render me incapable of appreciating good music.
What can we do, our families are incapable of doing great works, so we chose to create something for pleasure.
He's incapable of doing it.
That someone who's incapable of being loved can suffer too.
He's incapable of hiding a thing.
She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.
Out there are four men of different nationalities who are incapable of uniting except perhaps on one issue. their great distaste for Otto Franzen.
You are clearly incapable of earning a dishonest living.
I know you're brave. Incapable of hitting a sick man.
Why, your father's incapable of deceit.
I am absolutely incapable of such an act.
Theophile Vabre. He's incapable.
But only to tell me tales. Your husband has never had a mistress. You know better than I he's incapable.
This letter smells like a joke, a hoax. It's incapable of writing a denunciation letter, but. when it comes to mocking the police, to crossing the inspector, that's.
If Eva has drunk the sedative, she'd be incapable to get down the stairs.

News and current affairs

Currently, the judiciary is incapable of trying a case of petty theft much less of ensuring human rights.
But the political opposition to Lukashenko is hopelessly divided, plagued by infighting, and incapable of mounting any serious challenge to his rule.
Now incapable of intimidating anyone, Britain has opted for developing its potential to inspire.
The concept of interim agreements has now become utterly obsolete, if only because the parties are incapable of paying the political price inherent in an open-ended, piecemeal process.
While the manufacturing approach served China well for 30 years, its dependence on capital-intensive, labor-saving productivity enhancement makes it incapable of absorbing the country's massive labor surplus.
With the Americans still refraining from engaging in a Clinton-like level of committed mediation, the parties look to be incapable of meeting each other's minimal requirements for a settlement.
Moreover, anatomically modern populations shared a number of these innovations with Neanderthals, which many anthropologists and geneticists consider a different species, or a human type inherently incapable of reaching our cognitive level.
A decade's bloodshed exposed the EU as incapable of solving a crisis in its backyard without American help.
With fiscal policy incapable of responding, the ECB was stuck with a second intermediation role: mitigating with its Target2 system the effects of European financial markets re-segmenting along national lines.
Such measures will merely cause further damage to Greece's already-stressed social fabric, rendering it incapable of providing the support that our reform agenda desperately needs.
The Morsi government seemed incapable of understanding that a slim electoral majority is not enough, especially nowadays.
People are discovering that Hatoyama is incapable of making - and sticking with - a decision.
A century and a half ago, Karl Marx both gloomily and exuberantly predicted that the modern capitalism he saw evolving would prove incapable of producing an acceptable distribution of income.
Forty-one years later, Israel is still incapable of extricating itself from the corrupting occupation of Palestinian lands, and from the folly of settlements.
The Depression had rendered capital markets incapable of absorbing large quantities of government (or, indeed, any other) debt.
Nice as it sounds, the reality is likely to be ridden with bureaucracy, susceptible to control by the worst of the world's governments rather than its best ones, and incapable of innovation.
Iran appears incapable of providing it.
Yet China's leaders remain incapable of seeming to abandon the North, no matter how odious its behavior.
But, despite this relative strength, the European Union's leaders seem incapable of resolving the eurozone's sovereign-debt crisis.
The EU is not inherently incapable of addressing these challenges.
Euro-skepticism, on the other hand, and the looming threat of anti-European populism, is directly linked to the idea that the EU is not merely incapable of offering a solution to the crisis, but in fact is part of the problem.
We Americans are either too incapable, or too dysfunctional, to help ourselves right now.
In both Algeria and Egypt, secular forces were incapable of stemming political Islam's rise, which could be cut short only by a military takeover.

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