Sentence examples for abilities lay from inspiring English sources

His abilities lay not in administration, for which he had no talent, but in war, at which he was a genius.

The Architectural Association first admitted women to its courses in 1917, although the head of the school considered their abilities lay "in decorative and domestic architecture rather than the planning of buildings 10 to 12 stories high".

Grant's military abilities lay entirely in leading armies against the enemy, not in advising a superior or planning grand strategy, so it's no wonder he hated this position and later disparaged it as "a nominal command and yet no command".

It is more likely that he was a charming and impractical man whosereal virtues and abilities lay in the music and literature he loved, pursuing an elusive livelihood inan unremunerative profession in hard times, with none of the survival skills later perfected by hisson.

She also directly challenged Rousseau's Emile (1762), which claimed that women should not be taught to reason since they were formed for men's pleasure and that their abilities lay in observation rather than reason.

His passion and undoubted abilities lie in the elite end of sport, which further highlights what a strange, unwieldy hybrid the RFU has become.

Nothing is more demoralizing than the sing-song intonations or mannered phrasings of a reader whose mind and abilities lie elsewhere.

His abilities lie in his "[[Six realms, six different skills which he claims has been carved into his memories by having had his body go through all six paths to Hades.

Combined with mounting evidence that other attentional abilities are largely intact, it seems increasingly unlikely that disruptions of core attentional abilities lie at the root of ASD.

Maybe, instead, our ability lay in our unconscious perception: in our sensing something if we weren't looking for it, something that might disappear if we tried to probe it head on.

However, given the nature of life at Chelsea it is only a matter of time before someone drops the club in the mire again and he has to instil a sense of order and – to the best of his ability – lay down the law.