Sentences with phrase «away at their ability»

«Gaslighting is perhaps one of the most insidious manipulative tactics out there because it works to distort and erode your sense of reality; it eats away at your ability to trust yourself and inevitably disables you from feeling justified in calling out abuse and mistreatment.»

Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has spent years chipping away at the ability of the federal government to detain and deport illegals who wind up at Rikers Island.

Cash hadn't kept up with inflation, so it was also slowly eating away at their ability to afford their same quality of life.

Making payments on high - interest debt can seriously eat away at your ability to save for retirement.

This decision continues the recent Court of Appeals trend chipping away at the ability of trial judges to take away the plaintiff's constitutional right to jury trial.

Are the worries of life gradually eating away at your ability to function?

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which eats away at patients» ability to breathe, is a devastating condition that saps quality of life from even people with milder forms of the disorder.

To use a concrete example, if you have a million bucks socked away for retirement, drawing down $ 30,000 a year (in addition to any other sources like Social Security or pensions) is a conservative enough choice that you should be able to sleep at night, confident that even extreme swings in the market won't harm your ability to keep your portfolio healthy into your nineties.

ALS is a nasty neurological ailment without a cure to date that affects about 12,000 to 15,000 Americans; it eats away at the body's ability to voluntarily move muscles, eventually sapping essential functions like walking, talking, eating, and breathing.

The disorder eats away at motor functions and disrupts voluntary muscles; patients usually die within three to five years of the first symptoms as they lose their ability to breathe.

At 16 years old, I was a full - blown drug addict who was completely throwing his entire life away by living a life with no meaning and surrounding myself with others who degraded my potential and ability to become the best version of myself.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

«We will see equity compensation replaced with cash compensation and the ability to share in the wealth creation at your employer will be taken away.»

With today's Catholic universities drifting away from any recognizable connection to the Catholic tradition, dioceses closing parochial schools, and the Church's ability to influence politics at a historic low, it's absurd to speak of a «resurgent» integralism.

(And no, forcing women through pregnancy and childbirth — which is what you're doing, since you're taking away the ability for a woman to choose not to go through with her pregnancy — is not caring at all, no matter how much you claim it is.)

We are Ra - Chad!!!!!!!! Tremble at our conjoined intellect!!!! Weep as we crush you under our now - doubled ability to run away when presented with logic!!!! Bow down, worms!!!!!! Ra - Chad approaches!!!!!!!

I also don't think Tyron is looking at a career ender just a series of injuries that slowly sap away his ability to play at the elite level he's used to.

The match - up will kick off at 6PM GMT, and this side should have more than enough ability and experience to come away from Belarus with all three points.

I join you on that almostawinner... but the same can be said of that famous english core that we extended / signed a couple of years back... Ramsey is a great player, can be world class but for that has to stop being so wasteful at times (bad / heavy first touch, killing counter attacks with the wrong choices, not shooting well anymore the way it looks, giving the ball away)... your not on Gerrard level at his best Gibbs is a good player but seems happy with his bit part role, doesn't look like he's crazy about pushing & challenging Montreal for a XI spot Ox, I still believe in his talent but just no end product for an offensive player with his ability; he could be our version of PFA Hazard / Costa... is it a lack of confidence?

Even if a sloppy pass or a momentary lack of focus leads to a goal there should be enough attacking ability in the Arsenal team to get away with it, as we did last weekend, but I do think it is a concern and especially so in a big game like the one coming up at Man City.

The only concern in terms of ability is that he occasionally mistime his interception of high balls (remember Southampton 0 - 2 defeat away last year)... lost the player he is suppose to mark (West Ham first goal 0 - 2 defeat at home this year).

His abilities were not recognised at Arsenal and having become frustrated with a lack of minutes, it wasn't long before the World Cup winner desired a move away.

The first puzzle to be resolved is why has our ability to score goals away from home declined so dramatically whilst at the same time it has improved at home?

Messi's Barcelona side will travel to the Etihad on Tuesday to play against Manchester City in their Champions League last 16 tie, and Scholes has warned Manuel Pellegrini's side that the playmaker has the ability to take the game away from City before the second leg at the Nou Camp.

Having been unable to make it work at Old Trafford before leaving for West Ham United in 2012, and despite loan spells with the likes of Birmingham City and QPR, Morrison risks throwing away his talent and not making the most of his ability.

Personally I don't feel we are far away from having a team that is, in technical ability, ready to compete on all fronts, but Petit makes a very good point about the current striker situation at Arsenal and it's a topic of discussion that will not go away until we are satisfied.

Okorafor is probably a reasonable value at the end of the third round, but his value is based on potential, not the ability to contribute right away.

Yeah and look how he is treating US FANS at the end of his career.He just doesn't care.This is an intelligent man.He knows he no longer has the ability to Manage a top level Football Club.His tired and outdated methods have left us trailing the very clubs we used to dominate.Wenger has left us 5 years behind these Clubs.The younger modern manager know how to get results.Even against each other.Wenger can't even get a result away from home against teams in the relegation area.These teams used to FEAR playing us.Now they look forward to it.They know we will be playing with the same old tactics with plenty of the ball that gets us nowhere.No spine to the side.No passion in the side.No confidence from the players in the Manager.He should have been replaced 7 years ago

At last we are going into games knowing that we have the ability to blow teams away.

«You can never take away his technical ability and that goes unnoticed at times because he just does his job, but he's probably one of the best technicians in our side as well.

Success in tomorrow's match is not simply defined by whether or not Barcelona win; rather success is defined by our ability to secure an away goal, or at least whether or not we keep ourselves in the tie approaching the second leg next Wednesday at the Camp Nou.

This season under Mauricio Pochettino, he's experimented with 4 -4-2 and 4 -2-3-1, whilst it hasn't worked every game, he's had the ability to be flexible and try different systems and it seems he's settled on 4 -2-3-1 and as demonstrated on Saturday away at West Brom, it worked brilliantly.

Chelsea's recovery under Guus Hiddink faces its sternest task yet away to Arsenal on Super Sunday - and Jamie Redknapp believes the champions» chances at the Emirates hinge on their ability to deny Mesut Ozil the freedom of the park...

They were smashed off the park in their last away venture, losing 4 - 1 at Man City, although the positives to take from Rovers» recent away trips has been their ability to get on the score sheet, scoring in three successive away games, albeit managing just the one on each occasion.

Yes, I know it was «only» the Daggers but flair and ability shows at any level and even after such a long while away, young Nathan appears to have that in abundance.

United seemed to be reluctant to pay more than # 40 million for Perisic, but to land their target, a target they have been looking at since at least March, it would be pretty silly to walk away from the player, someone who Mourinho wanted to add to his squad this coming season, which could even see Martial turned back into a striker, a position he has played well in during the first pre-season match against LA Galaxy, which could well see United play a two striker formation during the upcoming season having Perisic, his experience, and ability on the left flank next season.

Hammer Away, a compact and sturdy colorful boat, gives baby the ability to color - match balls to openings at the top of the boat and then the baby can hammer the balls through the boat until they wind their way out into the waves.

By doing away with a la carte snacks, which had become the emblem of «I have money», and instead offering a variety of full meals (all of them covered under the free / reduced lunch program), we have achieved the ability to offer older students a wider variety of choices at lunchtime but also a fully equitable program, where literally there is no way to tell anymore who bought their meal and who is eating free.

Whether or not the Pope reserves to himself the ability to declare war (as happened throughout the XVIth and XIXth centuries), Italy, at least, with its territorial position three inches away over a solid white line, is in a position to cast a veto over that.

When the President removed his handkerchief to wipe away dropping tears when he saw the crowd in Tamale I felt something within I know he was mesmerised by the thick crowd but I saw that as normal looking at the north and south dichotomy and his ability to comfortable fix himself across the divides.The father suffered two exile situations and as young boy or man saw what happened those are what have contributed to his solid political stance and indepth understanding of our contemporary politics.

The rulings took away the biggest potential hammer the city could wield at COR — the ability to stop the company from completing the hotel and obtaining construction loans for future phases of the project.

Easy to clean and store away when not in use, this cooktop rounds out our list as a deluxe model perfect for any family or gracious host looking for the ability to cook two dishes at once.

The current paper shows that treating with retinoids simultaneously with anti-estrogen therapies may pull cofactors for progesterone receptors away from their posts, disallowing their ability to open DNA at the point of CK5 and keeping the growth of dangerous CK5 + cells in check.

But warming ocean waters have been eating away at the underside of these ice shelves, thinning them in many places and reducing their ability to buttress the ice.

But the enzymes — which are secreted by both fungi and bacteria — have now also been shown to have the ability to «chip away» at other intractable materials such as resistant forms of starch.

When they took away the ability of the nematode to secrete cytokinin certain cell cycle genes were not activated at the feeding site and the nematodes did not develop.

The team of medical and engineering researchers at The Ohio State University previously determined that modifying a single gene to reduce this protein's level in breast cancer cells lowered the cells» ability to migrate away from the tumor site.

But a study published last year in the journal PLoS Biology argues that chameleons evolved this ability to attract mates, scare away rivals, and send other social signals — not for camouflage (at least, not initially).

Research conducted by Dr Bill Dew at the University of Lethbridge in Canada looked for the first time at the effect of the metal contaminants nickel and copper on specific fish olfactory sensory neurons, and how these affect the fish's ability to detect and swim away from an odour released by other fish of the same species (conspecifics) when a predator attack takes place.