Our sense of entitlement has run far ahead of our ability to pay for it.

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?

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.

In short, citizenship in the full sense of the word requires basic rights and the ability to enforce them.

Their ability to provide for and protect their home and family is seriously undermined, creating a sense of inadequacy .

Clinton was able to combine a sense of theater with narrative stories and an overall ability to convey an argument.

And at the heart of our challenges At the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our sense of ability and of intelligence.

Envy A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person's ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.

This is the core of bin Laden s appeal the ability to articulate the profound sense of injustice and humiliation that many Arabs and Muslims feel today.

In this broad sense, organization and management refer to leaders ability to ensure an accurate inflow and outflow of information for making and implementing decisions.

The ability to communicate via e mail to everyone in the world creates a sense of the world s smallness relative to the abundance of people in it.

The so called Great Moderation lulled many policymakers into a false sense of security about their ability to manage the economy and deal with financial crises.

The ability to export helped growth, but there was a need to distinguish between export promotion and trade liberalization in a more general sense.

For only the US with all its power and sense of mission had the ability to establish a new world order at the beginning of the twenty first century.

A sense of place your ability to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character depends entirely on your ability to define space with buildings, and to employ the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythms and patterns of architecture in order to inform us who we are.

They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.

Smug self satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living. Our sense of entitlement has run far ahead of our ability to pay for it.

At least in developed countries but increasingly in underdeveloped ones as well the problem is no longer one of access to information, but of the lack of ability to process and make sense of that information.

Nonetheless, the mercantilist mindset provides policymakers with some important advantages better feedback about the constraints and opportunities that private economic activity faces, and the ability to create a sense of national purpose around economic goals.

Nonetheless, the mercantilist mindset provides policymakers with some important advantages better feedback about the constraints and opportunities that private economic activity faces, and the ability to create a sense of national purpose around economic goals.

Unless we are convinced of the Dreamliner s ability to avoid stall speed, it makes no sense to talk about all the ways in which it will enhance the travel experience for millions of people around the world.

In short, citizenship in the full sense of the word requires basic rights and the ability to enforce them. It also requires a basic economic status, including an income guarantee, which can be provided in a variety of ways.

In a sense, sexual selection is the psychological extension of natural selection. But, instead of gaining an advantage from traits that enhance one s ability to survive, one gains an advantage from qualities that potential mates have evolved to find appealing.

Sense

It does not make political sense it does not make economic sense it does not make ethical sense.

It does not make sense to help Somalis reach a comprehensive political settlement of their long conflict while at the same time denying them the ability to build the institutions through which they can overcome lawlessness in their country.

Really when we think of our senses, or when we think of the loss of the sense, we really think about something more like this the ability to touch something luxurious, to taste something delicious, to smell something fragrant, to see something beautiful.

Common sense, a rare idea in the law, but here it was. Common sense Revolts at the idea. Common sense.

In other words, Europe displays a strong sense of survival, but not a strong sense of common purpose.

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.

Nothing seems to make sense now. But one thing does make sense.

Improve level and ability of living quality.

Is there a sense of wonder?

Tom lost his sense of smell.

They have a sense of humor.

The Iraqis sense all of this.

Making Sense of the Climate Impasse

It was sort of, in a certain sense, in a McLuhan sense, an external stomach, in the sense that it was cooking food that we could not eat otherwise.

Elizabeth has realized, and she's coming face to face with her own sense of jealousy, her own sense of mortality.

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

It makes good political sense it could make good business sense as well.

And I think as that happens, it's going to become possible for our digital personas to continue to interact in the real world long after we're gone thanks to the vastness of the amount of content we're creating and technology's ability to make sense of it all.

That's common sense.

This makes sense.

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