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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of capacitate.

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Examples

  • Kupelo said those who complied with legislation governing the custom in the Eastern Cape would be further "capacitated" with training and recognition of their practices, while those who continued to disregard the act would be "severely punished".

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The need for a single police service that is capacitated to fight and defeat crime.

    Address by ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe to NEHAWU Securities Function 2008

  • It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the ANC seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.

    ANC Today 2008

  • However, it said, South Africans did not have to have their patience tested further by an under-capacitated and ill-maintained power that had taken carte blanche to execute the load shedding exercises in the arbitrary fashion that it often did.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Extracted or ejaculated sperms are capacitated (a biochemical and structural change in the laboratory), to isolate motile and healthy sperms prior to fertilization process.

    Increasing the odds of a successful Blastocyst culture In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) 2008

  • It is indeed refreshing to see politically unaligned individuals beginning to contribute soberly in this crucial public debate in the interest of what the African National Congress seeks to achieve: a strong and coordinated criminal justice system that is capacitated to effectively fight all kinds of crime within the country.

    Response to Fivaz-Njenje\'s Sunday Times article 2008

  • But it is small, under-resourced and under-capacitated.

    Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Leadership Magazine's 'Tomorrow's Leaders' Convention 2008

  • Following the dissolution of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) and the incorporation of its functions into the SAPS, government needs to pay particular attention to ensuring the SAPS is capacitated to respond more effectively to priority crimes.

    ANC Today 2008

  • The Commission's current IT infrastructure is ready and capacitated to provide a stable platform to support the next national and provincial elections in 2009; and voter education will be done in a visible and concerted manner.

    Speech by Ronald Mofokeng during the consideration of reports of SCOPA on the Department of Home Affairs, the Government Printing Works and the Independent Electoral Commission 2008

  • Following the dissolution of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO) and the incorporation of its functions into the SAPS, government needs to pay particular attention to ensuring the SAPS is capacitated to respond more effectively to priority crimes.

    ANC Today 2008

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