Sentence examples for abilities fail from inspiring English sources

Only when confronted by new forces from the outside world, of which he was ignorant, did ʿAbd Allāh's abilities fail him.

Based on the observation that human robot interaction is often laborious because the robot's interactional abilities fail to meet the user's expectations, we argue that feedback can play a central role in regulating expectations and mitigating unnecessary disruptions in the flow of conversation.

Had her vaunted visual abilities failed her? "People say places look bigger with furniture," she said.

In modern times, other nations in the grip of totalitarian leaders -- Mao and Brezhnev, for example -- have stood by helplessly as the hierarch's abilities failed toward the end of a long period of unchallengeable power.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, an amendment which would expand the FBI's online surveillance abilities failed to get two-thirds of Senators' votes.

The affected cells consume oxygen inefficiently, have reduced detoxifying ability, fail to synthesize needed compounds, and are more likely to undergo apoptosis (Nanji and Hiller-Sturmhoefel 1997).

In Miseducation, Reay argues that setting (the process of sorting children into classes based on ability) fails to realise working class children's potential.

A PTP-PEST mutant lacking both the fourth proline-rich region and filamin-A-binding ability failed to induce the multinucleated phenotype.

The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Also, now my abilities would fail me.

3 Multiple interventions exist to lessen the negative effects of inadequate functional health literacy, 4 but health professionals often overestimate patients' abilities and fail to recognise the problem.