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Profiles in Courage
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- Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles—or who are looked upon with scornful eyes as compromising "politicians"—are simply engaged in the fine art of conciliating, balancing and interpreting the forces and factions of public opinion, an art essential to keeping our nation united and enabling our Government to function.†
Chpt 0.1enabling = making possible
- Only the strength and progress and peaceful change that come from independent judgment and individual ideas—and even from the unorthodox and the eccentric—can enable us to surpass that foreign ideology that fears free thought more than it fears hydrogen bombs.†
Chpt 0.1enable = make possible
- In the meantime, I implore that Spirit from whom every good and perfect gift descends to enable me to render essential service to my country, and that I may never be governed in my public conduct by any consideration other than that of my duty.†
Chpt 1.2
- 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.†
Chpt 2.3 *enabled = made possible
- But Daniel Webster was doomed to disappointment in his hopes that this latent support might again enable him to seek the Presidency.†
Chpt 2.3enable = make possible
- The temporary and unstable two-thirds majority which had enabled the Senate Radical Republicans on several occasions to enact legislation over the President's veto was, they knew, insufficiently reliable for an impeachment conviction.†
Chpt 3.6enabled = made possible
- He meekly offered to wire his resignation to the Governor, enabling a new appointee to vote for conviction; and, when it was doubted whether a new Senator would be permitted to vote, he agreed to ascertain whether his own vote would be crucial.†
Chpt 3.6enabling = making possible
- As parliamentary floor leader for his group, he arranged speakers to make certain that there was no possibility of a break in the debate which would enable the bill to come to a vote.†
Chpt 4.8enable = make possible
- But sufficient time has passed since 1946 to enable something of a detached view of Senator Taft's act of courage in that year.†
Chpt 4.9
- It is then that his belief in the rightness of his own course enables him to say with John C. Calhoun: I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure.†
Chpt 4.11enables = makes possible
- For the continued political success of many of those who withstood the pressures of public opinion, and the ultimate vindication of the rest, enables us to maintain our faith in the long-run judgment of the people.†
Chpt 4.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(enable) to make possiblein various senses, including:
- to give someone the ability, knowledge, or authority to do something -- as in "The study will enable an informed discussion."
- to activate a computer system for use -- as in "You can enable the feature in the Settings Page."
- to permit someone to repeat bad behavior, so they reinforce the bad pattern -- as in "I don't want to enable her drug addiction."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)