" Acts of retaliation underscore the ability of the social collective to defend itself and demonstrate to enemies ( as well as potential allies ) that injury to property, rights, or the person will not go unpunished.

Some factors that go into the material selection are cost, their ability to harden, their ability to withstand high pressures, hot abrasion, heat cracking, and other such things.

* Self-renewal: the ability to go through numerous cycles of cell division while maintaining the undifferentiated state.

In a jump-off, a rider must balance the need to go as fast as possible and turn as tightly as possible against the horse's ability to jump cleanly with good scope.

In 1933, when the Great Depression limited Brown's ability to support a faculty member who was only useful as a researcher and not a teacher, he was let go by Brown, being hired after a trip to Europe by Yale University, where he remained for most of the rest of his life, retiring in 1972.

Modality expresses the speaker's attitude toward the action or state given by the verb, especially with regard to degree of necessity, obligation, or permission (" You must go ", " You should go ", " You may go "), determination or willingness (" I will do this no matter what "), degree of probability (" It must be raining by now ", " It may be raining ", " It might be raining "), or ability (" I can speak French ").

After the release of the second album, Unveiling the Secret, along with titles such as " Prisoner to Desire ", " Black Panther ", and " The Saint Became a Lush ", Psyche achieved the European breakthrough that gave them the ability to go on a formal tour.

A player may go from one C-fingered instrument to another easily, and from one F-fingered instrument to another easily, but switching between the two requires knowing both sets of fingerings, or the ability to transpose the music at sight.

The primary benefit of ABS on such surfaces is to increase the ability of the driver to maintain control of the car rather than go into a skid, though loss of control remains more likely on soft surfaces like gravel or slippery surfaces like snow or ice.

This ability to quickly raise potentially large amounts of capital from the marketplace is a key reason many companies seek to go public.

Adam Finley of TV Squad wrote that " that baritone voice, the Shakespearean delivery, and the ability to go from calm and collected to stark raving mad all within the same second make Sideshow Bob one of the best reocurring characters on the show.

To conserve energy while they sleep or when food is scarce, they have the ability to go into a hibernation-like state ( torpor ) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1 / 15th of its normal rate. They are also the only group of birds with the ability to fly backwards.

Acknowledging him as a " man of outstanding ability and cold-blooded ruthlessness ", Churchill concluded: " In the conduct of foreign affairs, Mazarin, Talleyrand, Metternich, would welcome him to their company, if there be another world to which Bolsheviks allow themselves to go.

The name of the album is taken from a quote by Winston Churchill, ' Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm '.

Aristotle believed that the moon was in the innermost sphere and therefore touches the realm of Earth, causing the dark spots ( macula ) and the ability to go through lunar phases.

She has demonstrated her ability to go beyond stereotypical images, most notably in the monologue series of playlets Up In Town ( 2002 ), written by Hugo Blick, and focusing on a society hostess's realisation that her star is fading.

One who allows his or her alimony obligations to go into arrears, where there is an ability to pay, may be found in contempt of court and be sent to jail.

In this book, Mentzer shows why people need to use their reasoning ability to live happy, mature, adult lives, and he shows readers how to go about doing so.

Some hydraulic platforms are articulated, which allows the arm to bend in one or more places, giving it the ability to go " up and over " an obstacle ( such as a building roof ).

A severe earthquake in September 1985, eight months before the tournament, cast doubt over Mexico's ability to organize the event, but the stadia were not affected and it was decided to go ahead with the preparations.

When Admiral Dudley Pound enquired about aerial assets in trade and commerce defence, Chief of the Air Staff Cyril Newall, replied that there was not enough " jam " to go around and stated it was more advisable to risk losses on trade routes than weaken the RAF's ability to protect Britain from air attack and bomb its enemies.

He also displayed the ability to write Latin verse on almost any topic of dispute, the verses, of course, to be delivered from memory.

The credit requirements stipulate that the applicant must have the ability to operate the business successfully and have enough capital in the business so that, with loan assistance from the SBA, it will be able to operate on a sound financial basis.

Not only is this kind of duplication wasteful, but it gives the combined system the ability to take freight traffic away from the New York Central and other railroads serving the area.

Our own freedom, and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.

The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).

The high cost of land and a few operational problems resulting from excessive loadings have created the need for a wastewater treatment system with the operational characteristics of the oxidation pond but with the ability to treat more organic matter per unit volume.

In 1890 when the trip to Europe and the Holy Land was arranged for Miss Packard, it was Miss Upton who planned the trip, and `` with rare executive ability '' bore the brunt of `` the entire pilgrimage from beginning to end ''.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

Readers were told that the British authority learned about Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain Belgian royals.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

This ability to maintain discipline and break out or maneuver away from a killing zone is a hallmark of good troops and training in any ambush situation.

Antigen ( ic ) specificity is the ability of the host cells to recognize an antigen specifically as a unique molecular entity and distinguish it from another with exquisite precision.

Aphasia ( or, from ancient Greek ἀφασία ( ἄφατος, ἀ-+ φημί ), " speechlessness ") is an impairment of language ability.

Much of the northern colonists depended upon the ability either of themselves to hunt, or for others from which they could purchase game.

The application provides visually impaired users the ability to convert messages from text ( words ) to speech.

It was Capp's finely tuned sense of the absurd, his ability to milk an outrageous situation for every laugh in it and then, impossibly, to squeeze even more laughs from it, that found such favor with the public ," ( from Don Markstein's Toonopedia ).

She has been repaying the debt from her housekeeping budget, and also from some work she got copying papers by hand, which she did secretly in her room, and took pride in her ability to earn money " as if she were a man.

Those described as having only light perception have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark and the general direction of a light source.

* ISO — Isolated power: a hitter's ability to hit for extra bases, calculated by subtracting batting average from slugging percentage

Clubs now had the ability to enforce player contracts, preventing players from jumping to higher-paying clubs.