I would like to believe that my ability warranted this advancement.

Some are failing to achieve as much as their ability would permit ; ;

The absence, during her childhood and early adolescence, of experiences in developing the self-discipline to complete tasks within her ability -- experiences that would have been subsequent sources of anticipation of achievement -- and her lack of childhood opportunities to practice autonomy and initiative in play and expression, both tend in her adolescence to deprive her of the freedoms to role-experiment and to fail occasionally in experimenting.

Perhaps they would argue that morality consisted just of that ability to see a choice.

Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.

The ability of a child to actively communicate earlier than would otherwise be possible appears to accelerate language development and to decrease the frustrations of communication.

However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

Another way of making the point is that if the Platonic world were to disappear, it would make no difference to the ability of mathematicians to generate proofs, etc., which is already fully accountable in terms of physical processes in their brains.

A discussion of every disease caused by modification of the various apoptotic pathways would be impractical, but the concept overlying each one is the same: the normal functioning of the pathway has been disrupted in such a way as to impair the ability of the cell to undergo normal apoptosis.

The Atari Lynx has several innovative features including it being the first color handheld, with a backlit display, a switchable right-handed / left-handed ( upside down ) configuration, and the ability to network with up to 17 other units via its " ComLynx " system ( though most games would network eight or fewer players ).

In this struggle it was important not only to be able to handle a club, but also to possess the ability to think reasonably, to take care of the knowledge and experience garnered by the tribe, and to develop the links that would provide cooperation with other tribes.

Sacrifice bunts ( sacrifice hits since 1954 ), which would lower a batter's on-base percentage, are not included in the calculation for on-base percentage, as bunting is an offensive strategy – often dictated by the manager – the use of which does not necessarily reflect on the batter's ability and should not be used to penalize him.

Étienne, who never remarried, decided that he alone would educate his children, for they all showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise.

While in the late Baroque a major composer would have the entire musical resources of a town to draw on, the forces available at a hunting lodge were smaller and more fixed in their level of ability.

Haydn, having worked for over a decade as the music director for a prince, had far more resources and scope for composing than most and also the ability to shape the forces that would play his music.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

This ability would enable a creature to recognize the likelihood that their perceptions are deceiving them ( e. g. that water in the distance may be a mirage ) and behave accordingly, and it could also facilitate the manipulation of others by recognizing how things appear to them for both cooperative and devious ends.

The roots of the term mandingueiro would be a person who had the magic ability to avoid harm due to protection from the Orixas.

A second difficulty might be the ability of minor parties to play " kingmaker " and, particularly in close elections, gain far more for their support than their vote would otherwise indicate.

The advantage of such a system lies in its ability to expand its own capacity rapidly and without additional human effort ; in essence, the initial investment required to construct the first clanking replicator would have an arbitrarily large payoff with no additional labor cost, with future returns discounted by their present value.

Valderrama was known for the accuracy of his passing, his tactical brain which allowed him to have a strong presence without the necessity of running as much as it would be expected, his exquisite technique on the ball, and his ability to provide assists that were very immaculate.

Instead of the meetings always being held in London, they would rotate across the membership, subject to countries ' ability to host the meetings: beginning with Singapore in 1971.

When the human main character, Takeru, argues that humans also have the ability to reproduce and disperse, the higher existence says carbon too easily mingles with other elements and therefore it would be impossible for a carbon-based existence to have evolved on its own.

In addition, it was believed that Canion's consensus-style management slowed the company's ability to react in the market, whereas Pfeiffer's autocratic style would be suited to price and product competition.

The tasks seem to reflect individual differences in ability to focus and maintain attention, particularly when other events are serving to capture attention.

She does not seem to have the ability to get attached to other people, and lies easily and intelligently to get her way.

While individuals with expressive aphasia tend to have a good ability to self-monitor their language output ( they " hear what they say " and make corrections ), other types of aphasics can seem entirely unaware of their language deficits.

REM sleep and the ability to dream seem to be embedded in the biology of many organisms that live on Earth.

While this decision process was made no less complex by being informal, common factors included the local power structure ( archbishops and nobles being the most likely recipients of a charter to collect tolls ), space between toll stations ( authorized toll stations seem to have been at least five kilometres apart ), and ability to be defended from attack ( some castles through which tolls were collected were tactically useful until the French invaded in 1689 and levelled them ).

They also seem to have some engineering ability, reinforcing the tunnel by rearranging the particles around it.

The areas of vocal technique which seem to depend most strongly on the student's ability to coordinate various functions are:

" Nor was he drawn to further engagements as a ballet conductor: " it offers special problems of fitting in with the dances and the dancers, most of whom, I'm sorry to say, seem to have musical appreciation confined to an ability to count beats.

Later editions added forms of ' partial insanity ' where only the feelings seem to be affected rather than reasoning ability.

On the contrary, while an increasing number of people seem to become addicted to PIM tools and other new communications technologies, these technologies are growing in praise for their ability to connect people and effectively keep them connected while increasing organization and allowing for new brain function mechanisms.

The Independent Institute's collection of research does not seem to provide much coverage of intellectual property debates ; its book Winners, Losers and Microsoft approaches the issue of copyright owner monopoly power only indirectly, opining that barriers to entry for a new product can be overcome by offering a discount during an introductory period ; the ability to design software to be compatible with competitors ' products ; potential coordination of customers in switching to a new standard ; etc.

The belief in incubi and succubae ( and their ability to procreate ) seem to have inspired the seventh category, but it could also have been inspired in the Talmudic legend of demons having sexual intercourse with mortal women ( see also Mastema ).

Frederick Hallam, a scientist of limited ability but with a fiercely protective ego, discovers that an old container's contents seem to have been altered.

However, the effects can seem to last much longer to the user because of psilocybin's ability to alter time perception.

If I've gotten everything in me from God and He hasn't given me the ability to make errors, it doesn't seem possible for me ever to error.

Some question whether this breadth affects the ability of Ph. D. s to find employment in the highly specialized environment of academia and the career market at large, although such concerns do not seem to be borne out by placement data that shows comparative literature graduates to be hired at similar or higher rates than their peers in English.

Most alarmingly, the swarms seem to possess rudimentary intelligence, the ability to quickly learn and to innovate.

" The Dundemores ' seem to have been a family of great ability, and their talents raised them to high positions both in Church and State.

There seem to be two places where the ability to colonize differs in ecologically closely related species.

The plasmid homologs of tubulin / FtsZ seem to have conserved the ability to polymerize into filaments.

Years of working with iron has also given him the ability to detect the presence or influence of elves, although he does not seem to be aware of this.

Some elements of her account seem on their face inconsistent, such as the idea of an elaborately interdependent universal plan and the human ability to fail at it, but this for example she attributed to the permissible scope of free will within a larger divine control.

The squid seem to lack the ability of rapid jet propulsion and instead rely on their capable fins.

Monroe Stahr, who is played with reticent passion by Robert De Niro ( whose lean, dark good looks seem an idealization of Thalberg's ), has the same uncanny ability, but eventually becomes a casualty of the " new " Hollywood of Wall Street investors, bankers and union organizers that Fitzgerald could see in the future.