had been able to

It appeared that -- after less than two months as president -- Madison had been able to remove the threat of war.

But Lenovo said it had been able to reduce its losses in North America as well as Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

The Delegation said that it was a role that WIPONET had been able to play, although its objectives as a network were different.

He went on to outline how most accounts had been easy to hack as the group had been able to guess the answers to bad security questions.

If Jonathon had been able to pursue his dreams of Technology, I daresay he could have even rivaled the master Technologists of our day.

It was clearly the carcass of an adult male, but no one had been able to identify what manner of insect it once was.

since she had been able to feel the three little peas through the twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds.

At the time there were very few countries in which radio amateurs had been able to organize themselves into national associations.

If you could have made (=If you had been able to make) him change his mind, you would have saved him a lot of trouble.

He had been able to sit through the whole thing only once, though by now he knew every sensation of the first five subjective minutes.

unfortunately , i did not know his address , and of all those i had questioned , no one had been able to tell me what it was.

If they had been able to measure several days with these techniques, one would guess that the relationship would be even stronger.

If he had been able to control his hallucinations, he would not have killed anyone.

He never had been able to give form to that ambition.

All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown rock.

Aid workers estimated that they had been able to reach less than a third of the storm 's victims.

But that would have made next to no difference to the outcome, unless it had been able to generate a large surplus in net assets.

Jackson, he said, had been able to negotiate complex business deals with Sony in his spare time.

The researches had been able to put flat plates a millionth of a meter apart.

Would Forster's imagination have been liberated if he had been able to write openly about homosexuality?

One day he worked out a problem which none of the other students had been able to solve.

For all the innovation of the past decade, nobody had been able to stem the flow of money out of the business.

Americans had been able to pay $9. 99 a month for DVDs through the post as well as the right to stream some films and programmes.

Sitting at the diningroom table, I realized that this was the first time since I came home from work that I had been able to just sit down.

Old Ma had been able to see everything from the rearview mirror, and that was why Yu had to pretend.

But if fix had been able to explain this purely physical effect, Passepartout would not have admitted, even if he had comprehended it.

bone in her swollen old body Mary Carson had wished she had been able to refuse, or else ride with them.

But no one had been able to take those circulation changes into account accurately enough to reveal the underlying ozone recovery.

Four years before, Chahua had been able to leave her home village through exams.

What would have been the consequences if he had been able to squeeze the answer out of me?

He had been able to force our applications through in one day before "I've helped you once, I cannot help you again" he told us.

It was the last time she had been able to comfort him.

On June 2nd, a group of hackers calling itself "LulzSec" claimed that it had been able to get into the network of Sony Pictures.

It would have helped him if he had been able to put two consecutive victories together.

If Mike had been able to finish his homework, he would have come to class.

Everyone killed would have survived if they had been able to get out of their cars and sit or lie next to them.

He had been able to go over the figure visiting each point but not going over any line twice or lifting his pencil from the page.

It was my turn to recite. How How I wish I had been able to say the rules without a mistake!

Before its introduction, assembly lines had been able to cope with only one model at a time.

Local pilots who examined the plane were surprised he had been able to fly it so far.

Physicists predicted that particles should be able to form this same arrangement, but no one had been able to achieve it until now.

It was about two feet long and the Cat had been able to entertain himself for hours with it.

proud that in a cause of compassion and honour , he had been able to get the better of himself.

Though I had been able to attend to most of my duties in Arkansas, I had to return to Washington on Tuesday.

But because of the great distances and the limitations of telescopes no one had been able to observe another star's magnetism directly.

Under the Japanese, the laboring classes had been able to eat fish, eggs and some meat on an average wage of a hundred yen a month.

Who had began to prepared these judgements or what judge even had been able to prepare them?

Once he had done this, he had been able to turn on the supply.

Asked why LeT had been able to "bounce back so quickly" , Mr Singh eschews the platitudes of international diplomacy.

Under German rules, DaimlerChrysler had been able to hide the loss, which was only revealed as a result of listing in a common-law country.

If he had been able to step outside or find a quiet corner, Kostya thought that he could contain the feeling.

John had been able to speak fluent mandarin when he was 4.

No one had been able to break that record for 37 years.

I would have felt better if both of them had been able to get the shots. Rikon said.

With the help of the Chinese songs, I had been able to revise all the biology concepts before the actual day of the exam.

For nearly 30 minutes the biologists had been able to observe monkeys that weren't frightened of humans.

Neither company had been able to complete their transactions because they were forbidden by Taiwan law until yesterday.

A lot of countries, he says, had been able to balance their development aid against debt relief.

It would have been great if we had been able to bottle the smells.

And this could become possible since by that time the communist party had been able to gain lots of strength.

My point is that I wish we had been able to save the video store.

and had been able to adapt to modern society.

He had been able to walk down there all right.

That system had been able to free people's creative forces and that was the very driving force of developing countries and societies.

Up until the Barcelona Olympics of 1992, no male gymnast had been able to win six gold medals at one Olympics.

So if I had been able to do the third lap then perhaps I was able to fight with them.

Police Chief Jeff Skorik said officials had been able to communicate by phone with the teacher inside.

Only the apostles had been able to pass on the power of the Spirit to others by the laying on of hands( Acts8: 14-24; 2 Timothy1: 2).

We didn't find Burnley easy and if they had been able to take their chances we could easily have been in trouble.

If I had been able to speak English then, I would not have been made fun of.

it was the farthest that scientists had been able to look into the past