capacity

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According to Crowley’s attorneys Genie Harrison and Mia Munro, the mayor knowingly made false statements in her personal capacity and as an election candidate, which they say are not protected by government immunity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

Economic security begins with the capacity to build, invent, finance and scale the industries that will define the next century, among them semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, shipbuilding, critical minerals and pharmaceuticals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

But the southern US state insists that federal law does not permit monetary damages against a state official sued in an individual capacity.

From Barron's • Jun. 23, 2026

Cerebras announced a multiyear agreement with OpenAI in January for the ChatGPT maker to deploy 750 megawatts of AI inference compute capacity.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

The moral law applies to rational, language-using creatures, and the law of nature binds all human beings by virtue of their capacity to recognize that there are moral obligations that are common to them all.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton