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Example sentences for "ability"

Lexicographically close words:
abiding; abidingly; abiit; abilitie; abilities; abill; abiogenesis; abit; abito; abject
  1. What you imagine you have eliminated by the elimination of capital, which you can collectivise, remains obstinately in individual differences of ability which cannot be collectivised.

  2. Further the great difficulty in allowing that it is just that men of different abilities should have different rewards, comes from the fact that differences of ability are of the nature of monopolies.

  3. Where there are differences of ability there is some kind of monopoly, and where there is monopoly, you cannot eliminate the influence of the relation of supply and demand in the determination of value.

  4. I may be allowed to point out that this question is of no great importance, and is even somewhat inopportune, since neither Marx nor Engels were philosophers of ethics, nor bestowed much of their vigorous ability on such questions.

  5. He has no higher ability nor stricter integrity.

  6. Carrying the largest stock of gold in the world, the world, in moments of danger, when crises of international finance loom large, looks to her vast lending ability for safety.

  7. The readiness and ability of the workmen to fight will, as usual, largely determine the amount of their wages or their share in the product.

  8. A man finds his place according to his ability and the needs of the system, and those without ability, or incapable of satisfying the needs of the system, have no place.

  9. His trenchant words, his statesmanlike ability spurred the lagging energies and fired men's spirits to greater effort; he gave the necessary courage and drive and inspiration to carry through and maintain the reform movement.

  10. It was his ability to interpret the spiritual basis of this work that made it a common platform.

  11. His introduction was an instance of his singular felicity of expression and his ability to state in choice language the sentiments prompted by the event of the moment.

  12. The rector was sensitive about his failure to attract larger congregations, and deprecated his ability as a speaker.

  13. It was not merely the power of virility and eloquence, but the power of grasp, of comprehension, the ability to communicate truth and make it come alive, and cry out for expression in the hearts and lives of his hearers.

  14. Earthly friends may lose their ability to help us, however much they desire so to do; but He remains throughout eternity the infinitely Rich One.

  15. The Honorable Order of Serene Duck Hunters It must be frankly confessed that the members of this fraternity cannot claim the ability to kill ducks as often as is required by the highest averages.

  16. How to Know a True Fisherman No burdensome qualifications or tedious probation obstruct the entrance to this fraternity; but skill and fishing ability count for nothing in eligibility.

  17. The wind and weather, while not entirely ignored, usually have a subordinate place in preliminary calculation, and the pleasures of hope and expectation are kept within the limits of ability or luck in finding the game.

  18. It is absolutely certain that he who aspires to do good quail shooting must keep cool; and it is just as certain that he must trust the carrying qualities of his gun as well as his own ability and the intelligence of his dog.

  19. The execution of the design thus foreshadowed has until now been evaded on account of the importance and delicacy of the undertaking and a distrust of my ability to deal adequately with the subject.

  20. Every dense transparent substance has this ability to yield images by total reflection, each substance having a critical angle of its own; we have just seen that for water this angle is 48° 35´.

  21. Besides the ability to see a difficult object, there is required an intelligence and experimental knowledge of the subject, which are as rare as the visual faculty itself.

  22. No other material approaches manganese steel in its ability to resist abrasion; it outwears ordinary steel four times, much reducing the need for repairs, renewals, or pauses in work while worn-out parts are being replaced.

  23. Faraday, in addition to the rarest ability in experiment, had an orderliness of mind which gave the utmost effectiveness to his work in every department.

  24. Ability to observe is an unfailing mark of an inventor or discoverer: it is quite as much a matter of the mind as of the eye.

  25. As the fruit of rare experimental ability Mr. Valdemar Poulsen, an electrical engineer of Copenhagen, has invented the telegraphone.

  26. Not a few inventors of the first mark are found among the men of great ability who unite training in two distinct fields of science, whose alliances they thoughtfully cultivate.

  27. Inventors and artists have in common a keen perception of form, an ability to confer form with skill and accuracy.

  28. To-day a man of proved ability who entertains an idea for a new machine, engine, or process may choose among the great firms or companies interested in the field he would enter.

  29. Michael Faraday, as we have seen, by researches of consummate ability laid the foundation of modern electrical science and art.

  30. In a sequel, full of interest, he sketches the shrewd means by which he secured a handsome fortune from his great invention, for Bessemer had remarkable business ability as well as inventive genius.

  31. This book points out how the ability to change the forms of things flowered into the capacity to change their properties as well.

  32. How an explorer of ability may witness a new fact without realizing that it points to a great industry, is shown in the case of Lord Dundonald.

  33. In 1722 the rest (or reserve fund) was established by the bank, as a measure to cover extraordinary losses in the future, and to inspire more confidence among the public as to the ability of the bank to meet reverses.

  34. From the well-known ability of its author, it may be safely and highly commended to the reading and thinking public.

  35. It is a principal branch of the doctrine of 'the wealth of nations,' discussed, during the last century, with so much ability by Adam Smith.

  36. If our ideas of art and its different branches diverge here and there from those which are commonly received, those divergencies will become evident, and will be discussed and justified to the best of our ability as the work proceeds.

  37. The architects of that epoch excelled all their predecessors in the skill with which they used their materials, and the artistic ability with which they laid their plans.

  38. The ability of the soil to retain ammonia has already been pointed out.

  39. Especially he urged him not to put arms and ammunition in their hands, as that would fearfully increase their ability to carry on the murderous raids which had become so frequent and caused so great terror in the frontier settlements.

  40. Also removing all doubts of the ability of the Americans to maintain the mastery of the great lakes.

  41. I, who was so proud of my own acuteness and ability to penetrate where others failed to see a way!

  42. It is very tempting to give more passages about booksellers but I must refrain as it would be foreign to the purpose of this volume, and the subject has been recently treated with great fullness and greater ability by Mr. Frank A.

  43. Madame was a habitual guest at the Hotel Rambouillet and friend of the Duchess de Longueville; her crowning accomplishment was the ability tenir un salon.

  44. After his conquest of Toledo, Alfonso VI placed on the various episcopal thrones of his new dominion Benedictine monks of Cluny,--men of unusual ability and energy.

  45. Among them was a young Frenchman from Perigueux in Aquitaine, Jeronimo Visquio, whose ability as organizer and builder, up to the time of his death in 1120, left great results wherever he labored, and most especially in Salamanca.

  46. Even in the excitement of the instant, Frayne found scope to wonder at the brute's ability to hear so noiseless a motion.

  47. But it concerned itself equally with Rorke's innate gifts for more subtle things; among the rest, a certain crude ability for acting.

  48. He passed a fortnight every other year at Narbonne, and then for six weeks he presided with ability and propriety over the provincial parliament at Montpellier.

  49. Such is also the process which, still at the present day (1890), in England and in America secures future ability in the various professions.

  50. Footnote 6202: Any socialist or social-nationalist leader would undoubtedly have been impressed by Napoleon's ability to control and dominate his admiring people and do their best to copy his methods.

  51. There are many excellent opportunities for men of moderate capital and ability in the high grade egg trade.

  52. Thus, we necessarily select the only trait really worth while; that is prepotency or the ability to beget desirable qualities.

  53. The ability to withstand disease germs varies with the particular animal and the kind of disease.

  54. Ability to mature for the fall shows is a decidedly practical quality that the fancier breeds into his chickens.

  55. The ability to pay for imports therefore continues to rest largely on the vagaries of the climate and the international coffee market.

  56. Unless otherwise noted, all rates are based on the most common definition--the ability to read and write at a specified age.

  57. Detailing the standards that individual countries use to assess the ability to read and write is beyond the scope of this publication.

  58. Meanwhile, wage increases in both the public and private sector have outpaced productivity gains, limited the government's ability to reduce current expenditures, and hindered the return to profitability of many private companies.

  59. Austerity budgets and a lack of trained technicians have undermined the government's ability to implement a number of planned infrastructure development projects.

  60. He is a man of great ability and acquirements, but these have been somewhat thrown away in the business of administration.

  61. I well remember the ability and eloquence which he displayed in these debates, and the telling manner in which he put his arguments and his appeals.

  62. It is with his own so beautiful talk, his ability to hear his own voice in the rounded paragraph, that he is aptest to charm one.

  63. Any careful statement of this sort is bound to be bafoué, and fumbled over, but this ability to come to a hard definition of anything is one of Lewis' qualities lying at the base of his ability to irritate the mediocre intelligence.

  64. Then it was that the Richard rose to the occasion and demonstrated her natural ability to cope with a head-on sea.

  65. The girl was familiar with the coast of the two islands and had fully demonstrated her ability to handle the Richard in a storm.

  66. While she talked on concerning the re-opening of the cannery, Gregory wondered to what extent her opinion of McCoy's ability was based by personal prejudice.

  67. She knew the Lord's ability to relieve her sorrow, and her hearty welcome to avail herself of it.

  68. And this something, I believe, is the discovery that we have an interest in himself, as well as in his ability to serve us.

  69. And yet, some of us really believe that there are higher faculties in man than the ability to manipulate the stock market.

  70. So far as concerns the ruling class male, what the system of privilege does is to give him unlimited ability to indulge his sex desires.

  71. It is a process of expanding consciousness; the developing of ability to apprehend a wider and wider circle of existence, to share it, to struggle for it as we do for the life we call our "own.

  72. The heavy smokers also show less ability than the light smokers to respond to increasing pressure of work in the late hours of the day by handling their full share of the work presented.

  73. So it appears that the worker is dependent for his wages upon the ability of the business man to make a profit.

  74. His ability to destroy life has become dangerously greater than his desire to preserve it.

  75. But here were the populations of the crowded slums, dependent for their weekly wage and their daily bread upon the ability of the factories to go on turning out products!

  76. The ability of the Turk, of course, to hold Constantinople and above all to take the offensive would depend upon the continued neutrality or alliance of the Balkan States.

  77. Vice Admiral Wemyss, and a body of naval officers whose work remained throughout this anxious period at that standard of accuracy and professional ability which is beyond the power of criticism or cavil.

  78. The question has often arisen as to the ability of Germany to prolong the war in the face of her inability to export goods to her usual customers.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.