8 sentences with 'capacity'

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• « The essence of being human is its capacity to love. »

• « Behind the scientific worldview and the rejection of tyranny was a focus on the capacity of the human mind to reason. »

• « With the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 18th century, a series of key inventions first unleashed coal's great energy capacity. »

• « Instead, the key factor was that the United States had a gigantic industrial capacity, dwarfing all the great powers of Europe combined, and millions of fresh troops who could be called up or drafted. »

• « According to Hahnemann, this medical procedure increased the body's healing capacity. A new principle was established: like cures like. Hence the word homeopathy (from the Greek homeo, similar, and pathos, ailment, suffering). »

• « Simultaneously, the world was forced to grapple with the fact that human beings now had the capacity to extinguish all life on earth through atomic weapons. These two traumas, the Holocaust and the bomb, forced "Western civilisation" as a whole to rethink its own identity afterwards. »

• « In June 1942, at the Battle of Midway, American forces sank four Japanese aircraft carriers. The significance of Midway was not the loss itself, which was less serious than the losses the American navy had already suffered. Instead, it was the fact that the Americans had the industrial capacity to rebuild, while there was no way Japan could. »

• « Recognising the huge gap between the Soviet Union's industrial capacity and that of the West, Stalin also introduced the Five-Year Plans, which set sky-high production quotas for heavy industry. Although these quotas were never actually met and thousands died in the frenzy of industrial growth, the Five-Year Plans (three of which took place before the outbreak of World War II) managed on the whole to achieve near parity with the Western powers in terms of industrial capacity. »

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