Sentences with phrase «much of our ability»

These days I make fewer mistakes than I used to, but much of my ability to dodge bad situations comes from painful experiences.

Much of that ability comes from experience, knowledge, and the ability to do complex thinking.

Kuhn owes much of his ability to be creative to some very conscious decisions.

I think that as a result of the fall, we lost much of our ability to understand and interact with Him, this world, and one another.

To my mind a great player is one that has great ability as well as the drive to utilise as much of that ability as possible.

One group has documented that, when placed skin - to - skin on the mother's chest, a newborn can crawl up, find the nipple, and self - attach.114 Newborns affected by opiate drugs in labor or separated from their mothers briefly after birth lose much of this ability.

According to a study discussed in the Telegraph, studies have shown that men actually do lose much of their ability to think and reason when around pretty women:

Tesla makes much of its ability to update its cars on the fly, to be sure, but really, that's a clever marketing spin on selling beta products to the public, and making beta testers of its owners.

If you retire just before the start of a bear market, the decline will rob you not only of a big chunk of your life savings after you have lost much of your ability to replace them.

In exchange for her new evasive moves, however, Samus has lost much of her ability to recover energy.

Rather, it was, «Geez, this guy must not think much of his abilities if he's charging so little.

Apple TV, like the Nvidia Shield TV and the Amazon Fire TV, has made much of its ability to play games, both casual and hardcore.

Not exact matches

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

Much of emotional intelligence comes down to social awareness; the ability to read other people, know what they're about, and understand what they're going through.

By setting up deals in which Lunar would receive equity - based compensation from its clients, the founders could tap into «the power of the multiple» — the ability to turn what might have been simply a fee - for - service payment into an equity stake worth much more in the long run.

• Documents reveal the NSA's Boundless Informant program, which gives the agency near real - time ability to understand how much intelligence coverage there is on certain areas through use of a «heat map.»

Once you secure that vision concretely, it is much easier to focus because you hold yourself accountable to a bigger framework that keeps you on track and limits the ability of distractions or failures to throw you off.

Creating demand requires vision, astuteness, and an ability to execute in such a way that people are attracted to your work, so much so that there is an acquisition of some kind.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

For one thing, Shafer says, this gives too much credit to media companies for their ability to shape the perceptions of the electorate.

Known online as «pirateat40,» Shavers allegedly gained control of as much as 7 percent of the bitcoin market by promising investors up to 7 percent weekly interest, or 3,641 percent annualized, based on his ability to trade the currency.

By creating a margin - focused and reliability - focused business, Backblaze was able to profitably add the ability to do what Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have at a much lower price of $ 0.005 a gigabyte stored or accessed a month (in comparison to Amazon or Microsoft's $ 0.022).

Getting results depends not so much on your position, but on your ability to garner support from others and being able to persuade others to buy into your way of thinking.

Subtracting the company's current liabilities from these current assets shows how much working capital (your firm's truest measure of liquidity) is on hand and its ability to pay for decisions in the short - term.

Much has been made of the possibility of 3 - D printed guns, for example, and the fact that many people will soon have the ability to 3 - D print consumer products at home has intellectual property lawyers watching very carefully.

Although I have progressed in my ability, anytime I look at some of the couples on the dance floor, I realize much more I need to learn.

Nevertheless, the end result was the same; I was able to learn so much from them and therefore increase my abilities... Today, I continue to maintain an ever - expanding circle of intelligent people.

«If you believe passionately, act with integrity and take personal ownership of the impact of your decisions, have the ability to look at yourself in the eyes and admit when you are wrong, the rewards are that much greater than if you never had the courage to make bold moves, affect transformation, or ultimately strive to have a positive impact on your life as well as the life of others.

How this applies to corporate life: So much of what we are able to achieve comes from our ability to carry forward good character traits and strength of mind.

They have an innate ability to change their global way of thinking to a much more precise way of thinking when necessary.

Even if such a step is seen as unlikely by most officials and observers, Pakistan's ability to shape the destiny of America's longest war is a reminder of how much leverage the country maintains at a time Trump is suspending hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance.

We put such a high value on the right to democratic participation that we forbid voters from making tradeoffs of this kind, from weighing how much they value their ability to vote against how much they value some quantity of money.

Whatever you call the firm (its post-merger name hasn't been revealed as of this writing), much of its success in early seasons was due to creative director Draper's ability to see beyond what clients and customers said they wanted, and understand instead what they truly needed.

And thus Gamergate's ability to swiftly shutdown discussion at SXSW doesn't really come as much of a surprise, particularly for the women who have long been on the receiving end of the group's harassment.

In particular, she was captivated by the high - tech moguls, some not much older than herself, who had the ability to forge new types of electronic ties that left people better connected to one another and to the world.

But the technique is much more powerful than that — it basically gives scientists the ability to rewrite specific chunks of an organism's genetic code, including that of humans.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics Task Force's Michael Rofe says the Rio Olympics was a great display of athletic ability, but there was just too much focus on negative news.

This is why the deal makes so much sense: AOL provides the technology to target individuals instead of content, and Verizon the ability to track those individuals — at least the over 100 million customers they already have — at arguably a deeper level than anyone else in digital advertising (for non-Verizon customers, AOL's ad platform is still useful, albeit not as targeted; rates would be commensurately lower).

Whether it's a plane in the Hudson River or a crying boy hugging a police officer, social images are unique in their ability to communicate so much information in just a snapshot of time.

While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.

«Like others, I was skeptical at first, however Aspiration has won me over with excellent customer service... I enjoy the ability of being able to select how much I am able to contribute each month for having the account (can even be zero),» one investor, Brian C, commented in a Yelp review.

Smaller companies have much less bureaucratic red tape, and the ability of one person to see his or her idea put into action has an important motivating effect.

When investors pay this much of taxes, it usually decreases their credit crippling their ability of buying properties.

The ability to adjust the aggressiveness of the razor, much like the Progress, is the other element that really helps this razor stand out.

This shows the ability of the entrepreneurs to attract smart money which is particularly important at the beginning; their criteria when choosing partners, and how much they value to be around good people.

Known online as «pirateat40,» Shavers allegedly gained control of as much as 7 percent of the bitcoin market by promising investors up to 7 percent weekly interest, or 3,641 percent annualized, based on his ability to trade the currency, and a promise that money could be withdrawn at any time.

The astonishing ability of the China bulls, both foreign and Chinese, to celebrate every unexpected decline in growth and every new surge in debt as if they somehow justified nearly a decade's worth of denials of the urgency of China's rebalancing has done so much damage to China that the sooner Beijing's leaders finally turn against the bulls, as I believe they might finally have done, the better for the Chinese people and the Chinese economy.

The $ 500,000 has the ability to generate the same or more amount of passive income as my entire $ 2,742,000 exposure given net rental yields are so much higher.

Mr. Bonforte's team, for example, has spent much of the last two years rebuilding Yahoo's email and instant - messaging services from the ground up, focusing on features such as better searches in email and the ability to unsend or delete an instant message at any time.

Your prospect list can look much like a CRM, a comprehensive list of places for which you want to write with the ability to track your communication with the site (getting published can sometimes require many follow - ups).