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  • This exploit was particularly gratifying to the three men; for they stood in need of the outfit which it furnished, and were enabled to make a long-desired trip into the virgin East, where miners had not yet appeared.   (source)
    enabled = made able
  • Its termination the feeble light did not enable us to see.   (source)
    enable = make it possible
  • So I made a snap decision and enabled the voluntary OASIS fitness lockout software on my rig.†   (source)
  • The new levers on your control panel enable you to see from the perspective of any of your squadron leaders.†   (source)
  • The most exciting part of the trip was the many tunnels, which enabled us to pass through the Elburz Mountains to reach the Caspian.†   (source)
  • Keeping Sophon Three and Sophon Four here will enable them to receive the information sent back by Sophon One and Sophon Two instantaneously.†   (source)
  • Sweeping changes to international law were being quickly enacted, enabling law enforcement to chase down cybercriminals wherever they were.†   (source)
  • The resolution to replace facilitate with enable and ensure was adopted by a unanimous show of hands and a universal stomping of feet.†   (source)
  • I've learned that the very traits that enabled my survival during childhood inhibit my success as an adult.†   (source)
  • But there was a new British law that enabled foster families to adopt a child who had lived in the country for several years and whose parents hadn't been found.†   (source)
  • The real issue raised by Cassie's death is not what she said to her killers, but what it was that enabled her to face them as she did.†   (source)
  • This laborious exercise enabled him to read the day's newspapers online.†   (source)
  • Virtually all major galleries employed red service lighting at night—strategically placed, low-level, noninvasive lights that enabled staff members to navigate hallways and yet kept the paintings in relative darkness to slow the fading effects of overexposure to light.†   (source)
  • "My second piece of general advice," said Moody loudly, interrupting him, "is to use a nice, simple spell that will enable you to get what you need."†   (source)
  • It enables him to communicate with a matching transceiver upstairs, with two other anti-air batteries inside the walls of the city, and with the underground garrison command across the river mouth.†   (source)
  • Apart from being delightful company, he enables us to say, as you have just said, 'But we do have Jews in the Oglethorpe Club.'†   (source)
  • But going to the new school led to seeing the round-headed counselor, and that enabled me to meet my new friend, Mai.†   (source)
  • He just loves enabling the curiosity of great young minds.†   (source)
  • Tile "drew" the water, warmed the soil, and made it easy to work, enabled him to get into the fields with his machinery a mere twenty-four hours after the heaviest storm.†   (source)
  • Or Lacy, for enabling him?†   (source)
  • By the simple act of removing the first two joints of my right index finger, Owen Meany had enabled me to feel completely detached from my generation.†   (source)
  • ) I know Mother would profoundly disapprove of the cleavage the dress enables me to have.†   (source)
  • And yes, I saw everything that you saw; my gifts enable me to see what others normally cannot.†   (source)
  • Our life together has enabled me to see the clues, even if she does not know them herself.†   (source)
  • Each of Uchendu's five sons contributed three hundred seed-yams to enable their cousin to plant a farm, for as soon as the first rain came farming would begin.†   (source)
  • It had enabled them to have seven children and buy a house in the Sunset district with very little money.†   (source)
  • In her long white dress with long sleeves, and with her black hair, recently straightened and shining, combed back and tied with a white silk ribbon, and her body swaying, and her arms spread out one moment, then closed so that the palms of her hands came together, and her voice rising to fill the church, then falling to a whisper that you could barely hear—Odessa not only made you see the room where the stockings were hung, but enabled you to hear the reindeer on the roof and hear Santa before you saw him come down the chimney to fill the stockings.†   (source)
  • Your actions contradict your thoughts—you're dragging us through this maze because you believe this prophecy needs to be enabled—and by that logic prophecies can also be broken—prevented.†   (source)
  • Because: if our secrets define us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am.†   (source)
  • Her money has enabled Belky to build a one-bedroom house in Honduras.†   (source)
  • A spineless enabler, like Suzy?†   (source)
  • One day during his trickery, a small pig saw the hunter biting a plant that enabled him to return to his human form.†   (source)
  • I thought Rufus and Kevin had probably told him enough to enable him to understand, whether he believed or not.†   (source)
  • From the grand dining hall on Renaissance Vector, I can see the bronze skies and the verdigris towers of Keep Enable in the valley below my volcanic peak, and by turning my head I can look through the farcaster portal and across the expense of white carpet in the formal living area to see the Edgar Allan Sea crash against the spires of Point Prospero on Nevermore.†   (source)
  • Somehow, that enabled me to fight the simulation.†   (source)
  • It enabled him to work through his shattering wartime experiences and free his mind and emotions to continue with his life.†   (source)
  • He is preparing to take his registration exam, the two-day ordeal that will enable him to become a licensed architect, to stamp drawings and design things under his own name.†   (source)
  • I had mixed feelings about running this particular errand, playing the part of sin enabler, but, as always, pleasing Nila superseded everything else.†   (source)
  • ENABLING THE DREAMS OF OTHERS 23 .†   (source)
  • The same un-self-conscious honesty that enables a three-year-old to splash joyfully in a rain puddle, or tumble laughing in the grass with a puppy, or point out loudly that you have a booger hanging out of your nose, is what is required to enter heaven.†   (source)
  • The only question was, which Anaander Mianaai had enabled it?†   (source)
  • They enabled him to see with almost razor-sharp clarity, albeit in monochrome.†   (source)
  • Mr. Depew all along has posed as the special friend of the World's Fair and has been lavish in his declarations that his roads would do the fair thing and would enable tens of thousands to come here beyond Niagara Falls....†   (source)
  • The result lacks depth and contrast but enables the sniper to see at night.†   (source)
  • The smell of hope had turned to the smell of old leather in Crommert's office, the whole thing like some scene from his own play: the old prints of previous Stovington headmasters on the walls, steel engravings of the school as it had been in 1879, when it was first built, and in 1895, when Vanderbilt money had enabled them to build the field house that still stood at the west end of the soccer field, squat, immense, dressed in ivy.†   (source)
  • Except for the hour each evening that he enabled the browser on his phone and disappeared down the byways of the internet.†   (source)
  • I had no choice but to take any help that would enable me to survive.†   (source)
  • Over millions of years, the bird has developed an anatomy that enables it to fly.†   (source)
  • This enabled her to be Apollo's mouthpiece.†   (source)
  • To enable the receivers to get downfield they held the ball longer and gave pass rushers more time to get to them.†   (source)
  • A lifetime of self-control had enabled him to conceal it, and a lifetime of naval training had enabled him to choose a purpose worthy of it.†   (source)
  • I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplish this incredible feat.†   (source)
  • This apparatus enabled him to intercept a few coherent messages in the midst of a deafening roar from across the sea.†   (source)
  • They taught us the technique of kick, stroke, and glide, the beginning of the fantastic SEAL underwater system that enables us to gauge distances and swim beneath the surface with astounding accuracy.†   (source)
  • I also worried what Luma would think—if my helping Mandela round up his teammates might in her eyes look as though I was enabling their truancy.†   (source)
  • Her quick thinking enabled an emergency team to resuscitate him, but no one knew how long he had been without breathing.†   (source)
  • What I have learned is the difference between supportive therapy and enabling therapy.†   (source)
  • Actress Laura Keene's knowledge of the theater's layout enabled her to bypass the audience and crowds that stood between her and Abraham Lincoln.†   (source)
  • She was not intimidated because she felt herself inspired by an exalted courage that would have enabled her to move the world.†   (source)
  • Finally, she "contentfiltered" the slices, which means she removed the high-frequency sounds from speech that enable us to recognize individual words.†   (source)
  • This enables you to trust God for the bigger things, in fact, all things.†   (source)
  • Even now, I would not go so far as to say it is a bad staff plan; after all, it enables a staff of four to cover an unexpected amount of ground.†   (source)
  • Steffie twisted around, used her free hand to pull her sweater away from her body, enabling her to read the label.†   (source)
  • The industrialization of the restaurant kitchen has enabled the fast food chains to rely upon a low-paid and unskilled workforce.†   (source)
  • He was in a kind of numb despair and intended simply to get home and take off his clothes and stay in bed until help came; help would probably be Yves, with the money for sandwiches; it would be just enough help to enable them to get through yet another ghastly day.†   (source)
  • It is assumed that Mrs. Nakane would not desire to come forward alone, leaving the child in Japan, and therefore it can only be suggested that the matter of her return be left in abeyance until such time in the future as there may be a change in the regulations respecting admission of Japanese nationals which would enable the Department to deal with the application of the child.†   (source)
  • Whatever the original host of the virus, it seems that a blood-to-blood contact in the rain forest enabled the virus to move into the human world.†   (source)
  • So the institute offers classes in a range of skills that enable women to earn an income.†   (source)
  • Amazing Offer...") that stoked a longing to realize an adventure his imagination swiftly and over and over enabled him to experience: the dream of drifting downward through strange waters, of plunging toward a green sea-dusk, sliding past the scaly, savage-eyed protectors of a ship's hulk that loomed ahead, a Spanish galleon-a drowned cargo of diamonds and pearls, heaping caskets of gold.†   (source)
  • Do you think I enjoy repeated phone calls from Chloe telling how if you're dead or something it's my fault because, obviously, I was supposed to have some kind of psychic connection that would enable me to know I was supposed to pick you up without the benefit of a phone call?†   (source)
  • But somewhere, we had found a point of common ground between us that enabled us both to develop and nurture a friendship through five decades.†   (source)
  • "With one-click purchasing enabled," Kinzie said, "which will open the jail cells with one click."†   (source)
  • That means a C or maybe even an F. He chews on this prospect for a moment and looks to shore it up, meditating that the upholding of accepted academic standards is precisely what enables institutions like Brown to offer a diploma that has meaning, a seal showing that the recipients can master valuable skills of reasoned discourse, of deduction, exposition, and logical thinking, abilities that will help them to approach any subject, no matter how foreign, throughout their lives.†   (source)
  • Of course the times enabled some of these men to style themselves revolutionaries.†   (source)
  • At first Newt welcomed it—it enabled him to see that he was still with the several hundred cattle, and also helped him avoid thickets.†   (source)
  • That reading things in a book should enable her—a child, a girl, a helpless woman—to negative their wishes smilingly, this would have been a thing quite outside the comprehension of either.†   (source)
  • We excuse you aides from most of your housekeeping duties to enable you to see to the patients.†   (source)
  • Sir [Brush's official commission read]: I am informed there are large quantities of goods in the town of Boston, which, if in the possession of the rebels, would enable them to carry on the war.†   (source)
  • The rule of threes enabled Tomas to keep intact his liaisons with some women while continuing to engage in short-term affairs with many others.†   (source)
  • woolen trousers, cotton socks, woolen socks, combat boots, gas mask, canteen, mess kit, first-aid kit, trench knife, blanket, shelter-half , raincoat, bulletproof Bible, a pamphlet entitled 'Know Your Enemy,' another pamphlet entitled 'Why We Fight' and another pamphlet of German phrases rendered in English phonetics" which would enable Weary to ask Germans questions such as 'Where is your headquarters?' and 'How many howitzers have you?'†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies.†   (source)
  • Each time they followed his example, he retreated with concern and racked his brain for some new stratagem that would enable him to turn upon them scornfully again.†   (source)
  • The fact that you were given protection, and your specific abilities, enabled you to defend your ground, so to speak.†   (source)
  • You'd have been enabling him to continue his destructive behavior.†   (source)
  • We are here so many years after our allies secured this haven and enabled our kind to continue.†   (source)
  • Foreword I have long despised artists' chatter about muses—"voices" that speak to them and enable a vision, the source of which they could not otherwise name.†   (source)
  • They sang songs like the birds and made Shapes on the walls; and though these could help them not at all, yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows, the very flower of Rabbitry, cleverer than magpies.†   (source)
  • It was gestures such as Mike's—probably hundreds of them, most lost to history—that enabled the Americans to withstand the maelstrom of hidden firepower, and even to begin inflicting damage of their own.†   (source)
  • I became what they call an enabler until I finally realized that the only person who could help your mother was herself.†   (source)
  • And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†   (source)
  • And Suzan was enabling him because she knew that once Thomas of Hunter put his mind to some-thing, he always saw it through.†   (source)
  • This is a problem that makers of hearing aids also have yet to solve well, to enable their users to speak to one person at a party and not have the device confused by the sounds of other voices.†   (source)
  • In the face of all this, Miss Peregrine had hidden him, given him a home, and helped him discover who he really was—she had saved his life, and in doing so had enabled my father's life, and by extension, my own.†   (source)
  • The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshipper or lover.†   (source)
  • But one fact not disputed is that the profits from his first several kills enabled the assassin to set up an organization that might be envied by an operations analyst of General Motors.†   (source)
  • The fire would nibble at the pier, but frantic work — and the fact that water was readily available — enabled citizens to halt the advancing flames.†   (source)
  • If a particular method or tactic enabled us to defeat the enemy, then it should be used.†   (source)
  • Lourdes is convinced it enables her to see things that others don't.†   (source)
  • Incoming calls were simpler because they were preceded by the fingerprint that would enable the phone in question to receive the signal.†   (source)
  • That he knew this enabled him to ride through the city much faster than he was sure Lia had dared, and he guessed that he would cut her lead by five minutes.†   (source)
  • In its negative form, it was based on codependency or enabling behavior.†   (source)
  • After more than two years of being a field cook, I was reassigned to the training section of the squadron, enabling me to work a basic eight-to-five schedule.†   (source)
  • Name me a greater example of such devotion than the act of a man who says that the earth does turn, or the act of a man who says that an alloy of steel and copper has certain properties which enable it to do certain things, that it is and does-and let the world rack him or ruin him, he will not bear false witness to the evidence of his mind!†   (source)
  • And then I look around at our pretensions and our beliefs—that we are somehow permanent—and I am reminded that it is the quality of leaders, the courage of a people, the ability to solve problems that enables us to continue for one more year, and then one more year, until our children and our grandchildren have had this freedom, this safety, this health, and this prosperity.†   (source)
  • Here was a transport that could be modified to carry 52 passengers, enabling non-scheduled airlines to offer cut-rate service across the country, and between this area and Florida in the winter.†   (source)
  • It is hind-sight that enables me to fix that as the day when my first small doubts started to germinate.†   (source)
  • His bold and gallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.†   (source)
  • They are intelligent, and they even have a structure similar to the Eldunari within their chest, which we believe enables them to remain submerged for extended periods of time at great depth.†   (source)
  • He was told that a promotion was forthcoming that would enable him to jump two spaces in the military hierarchy instead of merely one, an unheard-of opportunity.†   (source)
  • The Morning Service began at seven-thirty— early enough to enable Danny and me to attend and not come late to school—and Levi was called to recite the blessing over the Torah.†   (source)
  • They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer.†   (source)
  • Your mom's enabling your sister and screwing you over.†   (source)
  • The people had made such traps for a long time because they were easy to build and because they enable one or two people alone to corral many horses or cattle.†   (source)
  • Or had breaking one enormous rule enabled her to break others?†   (source)
  • Moving to that log home enabled my father to recapture his youth, which in turn shaped the lives of my brothers and me.†   (source)
  • It must increase your strength, riches and trade; and by this union the whole island, being joined in affection and free from all apprehensions of different interest, will be enabled to resist all its enemies...†   (source)
  • Hitherto, almost all we grew had been sold to pay the rent of the land; now we were enabled to keep some of our own produce.†   (source)
  • I will write a letter of recommendation for you that will enable you to attend and graduate from any college in the country.†   (source)
  • Leamas' passive role that evening enabled him once again to admire the unadorned efficiency of Peters' arrangements.†   (source)
  • This enables the evil illegitimate son.†   (source)
  • However, I saw a steep ridge looming ahead of me and I suspected that, once I gained its summit, I would have a clear enough view to enable me to locate the lost animal.†   (source)
  • We must pool all of our resources, material and mental, to gain the respect that will enable all of us to walk the streets with the dignity of American citizens.†   (source)
  • Music was placed in this category, and Aristotle speculated in his Politics as to the profit to be derived from it, finally conceding that music might conduce to virtue by making the body fit, promoting a certain ethos, and enabling us to enjoy things in me proper way, whatever that means.†   (source)
  • I got her the whiskey—a fifth of rye—which helped enable her to tell me about some bad moments during the turbulent year she spent with Nathan, before I came on the scene.†   (source)
  • JAMES [PLEASANTLY]: That enables her to get anything she wants out of you?†   (source)
  • The wish that came to me—consuming the anxiety about letting myself down—was the wish to win the possessor of that body, the body which, because I wished to win its possessor, I saw as perfect, and wanted continuously, during the act itself, to see, holding myself in ways that enabled me to do so, avoiding crushing the body with my own, avoiding that obliteration of sight and touch.†   (source)
  • They were never seen without a belt adorned with complex mechanisms which, it was generally believed, controlled their weight and enabled them to communicate with each other.†   (source)
  • Having to look after several mechanical instruments at once, Kolia had evolved a special style of speech, obscure, abrupt, and puzzling, which enabled him, if he chose, to avoid answering questions or getting involved in a conversation.†   (source)
  • Part of our colonial policy which enabled the United States to enact legislation for the government of backward people.†   (source)
  • The kiss, which had more pressure than feeling behind it, produced that extra surge of adrenalin in the girl that enables one to carry a packed trunk out of a burning house, but in her, the power went at once to the brain.†   (source)
  • Even from the military point of view of the North, postponement of the battle for ten years enabled the Northern states to increase tremendously their lead in population, voting power, production and railroads.†   (source)
  • This informality enabled Reich to drift into the Restricted Room and pick up one of the visual knockout capsules.†   (source)
  • To meet it successfully, there is called for, not so much the emotional and transitory sacrifices of crisis, but rather those which enable us to carry forward steadily, surely, and without complaint the burdens of a prolonged and complex struggle—with liberty the stake.†   (source)
  • It was his shyness, his defense towards her, that enabled her to hold her own.†   (source)
  • A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.   (source)
    enabled = made possible for
  • But when he was thus separated from his fellows, two or three of the younger bulls would charge back upon Buck and enable the wounded bull to rejoin the herd.   (source)
    enable = make it possible for
  • Nevertheless, one hundred and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.   (source)
    enabled = made it possible for
  • Because of his very great love, he could not steal from this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him to escape detection.   (source)
  • Enabling God to command their souls to heaven more expeditiously.†   (source)
  • Or anything, it seemed, that would enable him to be alone for hours on end.†   (source)
  • This enables Masons of different faiths to gather together.†   (source)
  • It enabled all men to understand each other, to communicate without misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • It was only Aunt Martha's thriftiness that enabled Uncle Max to keep it open.†   (source)
  • Saying it out loud enabled him to make sense of it all.†   (source)
  • It's also my opinion that another of Phillip's doctors was also an "enabler."†   (source)
  • To enable you to understand this central point in Sartre's philosophy, yes.†   (source)
  • Naturally, these outlets also would enable me to advance rapidly through academic ranks.†   (source)
  • This will enable her to put a curse on every one of them.†   (source)
  • And there are those, like Dan, who enable the nuts.†   (source)
  • It enabled scientists from different departments to share daily findings with one another.†   (source)
  • So they might know things about her that will enable them to locate her more easily than us.†   (source)
  • Somehow that enabled the three-legged woman to walk, carefully, and very slowly, but with dignity.†   (source)
  • I was incredibly appreciative that Tommy felt I helped enable his dreams.†   (source)
  • His knowledge of the river enabled him to calculate the best time to begin a trip across.†   (source)
  • Whether NCAA investigators impeded, or enabled, this state of affairs was an open question.†   (source)
  • As a young doctor, he supported his younger siblings, enabling them to continue their education.†   (source)
  • The fact that I thought I was alone, unwatched, enabled me to commit a crime.†   (source)
  • This enabled him to continually expose the weaknesses in people's thinking.†   (source)
  • Young was left-handed, which enabled him to see Doleman coming.†   (source)
  • A brain biopsy enabled them to reach a further confirmation of the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • This data might just enable us to find her.†   (source)
  • I enabled Dennis's dream way back when he needed it...and now that I need it, he is enabling mine.†   (source)
  • All because you were being enabled by some, what, some cloak of invisibility?†   (source)
  • The talent that had enabled him to pick winning stocks Ryan now applied to the CIA.†   (source)
  • The laser enabled me to coagulate some of the bleeding vessels as I went in.†   (source)
  • The Promised Land ENABLING THE dreams of others can be done on several different scales.†   (source)
  • I enabled Dennis's dream way back when he needed it...and now that I need it, he is enabling mine.†   (source)
  • She has a natural ability—an intuitive sense—that enables her to perceive what should be done.†   (source)
  • And this has enabled us to get perfect and complete data on the eleven thousand people here.†   (source)
  • About that time Susan remembered how much Dr. Miller's compassion had enabled her to cope.†   (source)
  • In words, Jack Cardinal has enabled this place to survive forever.†   (source)
  • "It's what will enable us to read your genes," Matthew says.†   (source)
  • More than anything, it was the smell that enabled him to continue.†   (source)
  • It was only reflex that enabled him to swallow the soup she fed him.†   (source)
  • You're enabling your mom the way that she enables your sister.†   (source)
  • But we could never have infiltrated Walpurgisnacht and gotten close to him unless he had enabled it.†   (source)
  • The primary reason to give the Executive the veto is to enable him to defend himself.†   (source)
  • My education once enabled me to fly like a bird, but what happens to a bird with a broken wing?†   (source)
  • It is the control group which enables the scientist to gauge the effect of his experiment.†   (source)
  • The new prosperity enabled Carl and Margaret to buy a house five blocks away from their restaurant.†   (source)
  • He had a manner that enabled him to absorb and destroy all opinions in conflict with his.†   (source)
  • Regression analysis is the tool that enables an economist to sort out these huge piles of data.†   (source)
  • It seemed like ages ago that Max's own blood had enabled Astaroth to escape its confines.†   (source)
  • You're enabling your mom the way that she enables your sister.†   (source)
  • Then what's wrong with showing me what it is that enables you to carry on in this world?†   (source)
  • This lack of public disclosure enables the companies to maintain the secrecy of their formulas.†   (source)
  • Your family calls it enabling, we call it taking care of each other.†   (source)
  • That will enable us to play another game...a game called 'Murder.'†   (source)
  • How can one know he will be able to create another to enable him to go on living?†   (source)
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