The PLA intrusion, by threatening that Indian base, may have been intended to foreclose India s ability to choke off supplies to Chinese troops and workers in Pakistan s Gilgit Baltistan region, where China has expanded its military footprint and strategic projects.

In particular, the extent of involvement of Government officials as documented by the Commission would appear to foreclose such options.

While we cannot be sure how China will evolve, it makes no sense to foreclose the prospect of a better future.

It makes no sense for banks to foreclose on homes when there are workout options whereby people could stay in their homes and banks could recover far more money.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

These two components are (1) the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root educere , meaning to draw out ) and (2) the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.

Man has the ability to talk.

Finally, relying on flanking policies to make privatization and liberalization work may in certain cases foreclose the more fundamental question about whether or not private sector and foreign operators' involvement is the most suitable option in the first place.

Now the other issue comes with, not just the ability to tell pitches apart, but the ability to tell sounds apart.

And everyone has the ability to contribute.

Tom has the ability to do that.

Weak ability to manage the educational system.

More elaborate incubators can also include the ability to lower the temperature (via refrigeration), or the ability to control humidity or CO2 levels.

Maybe their greater ability to cooperate and adapt?

I don't doubt his ability to do it.

But America s ability to address them has changed.

The real goal is to restrict governments ability to regulate and tax corporations that is, to restrict their ability to impose responsibilities, not just uphold rights.

Layla is still working to regain her ability to speak.

We are demonstrating the ability to relate to marginalized groups.

As the historian Tony Judt points out It s not a different ability, it s no ability.

We changed their ability to judge other people's actions.

The snow impaired Mustafa s ability to hear anyone s footsteps.

I must take advantage to enhance my language ability.

The ability to combine them effectively is smart power.

Many Israelis distrust his ability to lead the country.

Indeed, over time their ability to bring results diminished.

America retains unique qualities particularly its ability to rebound.

The ability of a group to leave is contextual.

Say , O my people ! Act according to your ability .

This process will strengthen their ability to undertake OFDI.

My ability to conduct comprehensive legal analysis is proven.

There are numbers but little ability to draw correlations.

Their ability to communicate verbally ranged from non existent to minimal.

It also seems to have an ability to jam satellite communications.

Originally, the concept simply referred to society's ability to regulate itself.

Power is the ability to get the outcomes one wants.

This implies critical faculties and the ability to tolerate criticism.

Of course, we need the ability to control bad fires.

This compromises their countries' ability to develop effective AIDS programmes.

The ability to enter into contracts and bring legal proceedings

I really trust his ability.

In India, the definition of literacy, operating definition of literacy, is the ability, the grand ability, to write your own name in whatever language you happen to speak.

Other methods exploit natural forms of gene transfer, such as the ability of Agrobacterium to transfer genetic material to plants,or the ability of lentiviruses to transfer genes to animal cells.

So I need to know that you have the ability to listen.