The ability to combine them effectively is smart power.

The ability of a group to leave is contextual.

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.

Power is the ability to get the outcomes one wants.

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.

My ability to conduct comprehensive legal analysis is proven.

But Erdoğan s ability to take on the Gülen movement is limited.

Crystallized intelligence is the ability to use skills, knowledge, and experience.

Why is it that some of you are so high above the curve in terms of your intellectual ability, athletic ability, musical ability, creativity, energy levels, your resiliency in the face of challenge, your sense of humor?

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.

Layla is still working to regain her ability to speak.

Now our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability.

The ability of grassroots movements to influence policy is set to increase.

Anyone who suffers from loss of ability to work, loss of ability to perform activities on the basis of which he she is insured or loss of ability for economic activity Anyone whose remaining ability to work is conditioned upon retraining or additional training, but to which the insured is not entitled, as he she turned 55 (men) or 50 (women) at the date at which the disability was acquired.

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.

It's not his ability, but his character that is at issue.

Zuma is legendary for his ability to connect with ordinary people.

One is the central government s ability to run deficits and to act decisively.

Their ability to act in a timely fashion is also of the essence.

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

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

Finally, it is possible to assess the ability of the government itself to develop capacity and the authority appropriate to the development and sustenance of the stability that is critical to its ability to survive and prosper.

While legislators have many leadership skills, their management ability is usually unproven.

Indeed, one virtue of democracy is its ability to dampen violent tendencies.

It is just this kind of reasoning ability that improved during the twentieth century.

This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.

The only criterion for availing the services of this system is the ability to pay.

What is at stake is the dignity of the presidential office and, beyond that, France s ability to modernize.

Power is the ability to do what one wants, regardless of the will of others.

It is not as though Africa lacked resources or the ability to govern itself well.

The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli is called sensitivity.

One of the OSCE's strengths is its ability to adapt to the challenges of the day.

Traditional security is about a state's ability to defend itself against external threats.

What is news is that American power might also be losing its ability to intimidate them.

Scalability is the ability of a system, network, or process to handle a growing amount of work in a capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth.

Man has the ability to talk.

Research in cranioplasty is now directed at improving the ability of the host to regenerate bone.

By relegating women to the private sphere, their ability to enter the political arena is curtailed.

That is why the Danish model is probably the worst solution, for it requires no governing ability from the populists.

It is responsible for the bacteria's ability to spread from person to person and is analogous to a spore.

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

The ability of this group to work together is critical to resolving this and future crises.

Fluency in creative thinking is seen as the ability to think of many diverse ideas quickly.

A slow but gradual positive trend is reflected in the region's ability to improve trade performance.

Basis for a good interactive dialogue is the ability to interrupt the other party at any time.