998 examples of ability to in sentences

This factor can only be fostered by the ability to maintain not one, but a group of high class teams.

The audience cheered and applauded; which gave me greater confidence in my ability to get through the performance all right.

As for his ability to keep pace with a horse he had no doubt that he could do it fairly well.

Swaraj depends upon our ability to control all the forces of violence on our side.

As long as the power to enact laws shall hinge on the complexion of benches of judges, so long will the ability to control a majority of the bench be as crucial a political necessity as the ability to control a majority in avowedly representative assemblies.

That thousands of people could have been spared from agricultural pursuits for so long a time as was necessary to extract the blocks from the quarries, hew them to the required shapes, transport them several miles over rough country, and bond them together in such an intricate manner, means that the leaders had the brains and ability to organize and arrange the affairs of a very large population.

He might, however, have possessed all of these characteristics, and enjoyed the consideration among his fellow-legislators which they confer, without being well known to the public, if he had not united to them the ability to write elegant and forcible English.

But French Pete seemed to know instinctively the direction he should go, and once, in reply to a query from Joe, bragged of his ability to go by the "feel" of things.

If America really possessed the ability to rule England that her cotton-manufacturers assert she possesses, all Englishmen should rejoice that events have occurred here that promise to work out their country's deliverance from so degrading a vassalage.

In making a difficult turn you will find it very much to your advantage to go slow, as it gives you much better control of your front wheels, and it is not a bad plan for a beginner to continue to go slow till he has perfect confidence in his ability to handle the steer wheel as it may keep you out of some bad scrapes.

He had staked everything on his ability to trap Perris and destroy him, thereby piling upon the shoulders of Oliver Jordan a burden of gratitude which the rancher could never repay.

Henceforth that South-African contract depended merely upon his own ability to add, subtract, and multiply correctly.

It calls for lightning-like reflexes and the ability to move the racquet head practically in any given direction in a fraction of a second.

No doubt of your ability to make any woman happy; but have no thoughts of changing my name.

That such knowledge could be gleaned without a visit to the open air was an obvious advantage to those who were clothing themselves to face it, whilst the ability to study the variation of a storm without exposure savoured of no light victory of mind over matter.

In early Israel there were many men and women famous for their ability to give wise counsel.

He trusted in a calm head, a quick judgment, an ability to read character.

Most men still are savages so far as the ability to appreciate the higher secondary sexual qualities in women is concerned.

The Medium, however, professed his ability to distinguish between the two classes of sounds, and remarked that some of the sounds heard by him were such as would be made by a person touching the table and causing it to make the raps; that such sounds were not from the Spirits; that when the raps were genuine they caused a peculiar sensation, a sort of tremor, in his breast, and, therefore, he could tell when the raps were spurious.

Breslau is indeed a poet in her ability to picture youth and its sweet intimacies, and she does this so easily.

The indispensable condition to the exercise of this function by a bank is public confidence in its ability to fulfil its promise to pay whenever it is due.

As for women's intellectual ability to decide their own legal status, they are, taken the country over, rather better educated than men.

"I have been particular in my inquiries, and all who know her speak in the highest terms of her remarkable attainments, her ability to teach others, and her goodness of heart.

Equally important are their spokesmen, advisers and apologists: lawyers, preachers, teachers, writers, speakers, publicists, carefully chosen for their ability to apologize, passify, justify and reassure.

Brother Couch is a very useful man, having unusual ability to adjust himself to such work as requires special adaptations.

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