Sentences with phrase «little ability»

The scientific community has shown very little ability to regulate itself.

If I had been over looked for promotion to a young, inexperienced colleague with little ability that others don't respect then I would find it hard to maintain my loyalty.

No lender will consider approving a start up business loan to an applicant that has shown little ability to keep their personal finances in order.

Also little ability to search a site for content.

The available research indicates that religious television programs demonstrate little ability to stimulate formation of a relationship between viewers and a church where a previous relationship did not exist.

Besides, unlike virtually any other business, oil and gas producers have very little ability to set market prices.

But in a private conversation, it became clear that those have as little ability to stop her as they ever have.

«Most of the states near the bottom have very strict regulation for either auto or homeowners insurance, which gives carriers less flexibility and thus little ability to offer savings,» Lehrer says.

Massive deficits leave little ability to respond to economic downturns, making an inevitable future recovery exceedingly slow and painful.

«We have relatively little ability to do our own revenue generation.»

Michael Cera plays a former hot - shot actor turned full - time card shark, and he's merciless with the others at the table — men of little ability and lots of money who mostly want to rub elbows with celebrities.

The fast - talking but increasingly insufferable Teller, however, displays little ability to modulate his performance as the movie gradually turns darker and darker, much like last year's similarly serio - comic take on drinking, «Smashed.»

That to me means... there is no feedback loop, and there is very little ability for people to register their concerns and needs.»

when in fact software has this neat little ability to encapuslate a file / format with plugins / wrappers.

During their first 6 months of life, puppies have very little ability in regulating calcium absorption which can lead to an intake that exceeds their physiological needs, further explains veterinary nutritionist Cailin R. Heinze.

Canadian companies need to invest in analytical tools and expertise to generate the proactive and predictive insights for a more personalized experience for customers, who are quietly slipping away with little ability to win them back.

The FCC has also shown little ability to aggressively enforce its own rules, despite a history of credible claims of fraudulent pricing by telecoms.

Especially as that leaves it open to complaints that it's not nearly as open, with very little ability to dig straight down into the ground and some nasty invisible walls whenever you come across water.

If, however, you have little ability or desire to wait for pay - offs, don't get involved in the first place.

If you operate in a market that is highly competitive, chances are you have little ability to price above the going rate for your product.

Entrepreneurs might have less access to potential capital, with little ability to look at home equity since the housing market collapsed during the recession.

Farmers and consumers in countries and sectors without supply - management systems are subject to wild swings in commodity prices and have little ability to negotiate reasonable returns or prices with giant global agri - businesses.

The truth is we have little ability to judge when inflation will accelerate in a major way.

Those that are dependent on outside corporations have little ability to marshal resources to overcome challenges.

By contrast, consumers have little ability to check their credit reports on such an ongoing basis, so many months could go by before they notice a new account on their credit report.

I believe god is love, I think we have little ability to understand much beyond that at this point and those who would define and codify god are arrogant fools doing harm in this world, I believe that the absence of love in anything is proof that it doesn't come from god, fire and brimstone does not come from god, unconditional love and acceptance does.

-- My emotional misery is derived from external pressures, and I therefore have little ability to control or change my feelings.

Some sympathy has to go to the teachers who usually have to teach in overcrowded and very mixed abilities of students and little ability or limited latitude to discipline.

Too hard to replicate; too many unanswered questions; to little ability to predict the results of future experiments.

A country is officially experiencing famine when one in five homes face extreme food shortages with little ability to cope.

The United Nations is the most important such organization, but partly because of United States policy, it has little ability to formulate or police environmental rules.

I think Mr Moyes is hoping just a little too much from a Sunderland team with zero confidence and little ability.

Green plays like a very smart lunatic with little ability to stop at the whistle or stop at the invisible line of sportsmanship.

Newborns have little ability to regulate their own temperature and can chill easily.

I am amazed that your child has been sleeping so well since a young age, but now her mind is likely going a mile a minute — with little ability to express herself except through crying.

We have little ability to quantify maternal risks of uterine rupture and other maternal morbidities when a women with three or more prior cesareans desires spontaneous labor.

Local governments have little ability to fund the inspection of units, or to make emergency repairs.

That base is not nearly large enough to power a single candidate to victory, and split between Dietl and Malliotakis it leaves both with little ability to pose a real challenge to Mayor de Blasio.

But it might be worth spending a moment considering another attribute he had, which politicians and political commentators have shown little ability to emulate over the last few months: he was usually right.

They also complained, as they have since the April 1 passage of the state budget that mandated the new system, that they have little ability to improve upon what Cuomo and lawmakers created, although they'll likely take the blame when it's undoubtedly unpopular with stakeholders and the general public.

And, remember: While McCain still has the power to change his situation — as a presidential nominee he can directly affect the news on any one day between now and Nov. 4 — House and Senate candidates have little ability to fundamentally alter the national narrative.

Cheng's group previously developed short protein chains that twist into a helical spiral, giving them a stiff, rodlike structure that can punch holes through bacterial membranes — a method of killing to which bacteria have little ability to develop resistance.

Narcissists have very little ability to empathize with others.

But they have little ability to respond to your pain or fear or even your day - to - day need for care and sympathy.

The third model usually used is a very high fat diet (about 60 % of calories), but highly saturated fats have shown very little ability to cause fatty liver disease in this model and polyunsaturated fats have shown a very high ability to do so.