The phrase "ability of the common" is not standard in written English and may be unclear without context.
It could be used in discussions about the capabilities or skills of the general population or community, but it may require additional context for clarity.
Example: "The ability of the common to adapt to new technologies is impressive in today's fast-paced world."
Alternatives: "capability of the general public" or "skills of the average person".
As is clearly enough apparent in "Julius Caesar" and some of his other plays, Shakespeare was hardly a believer in the ability of the common man to behave in a sensible fashion when a country's leaders lead them astray or rouse them to partisan furies.
Late in life, Frances Perkins wrote about the maturation of social thinking during the first half of the twentieth century, "Very slowly there evolved...certain basic facts, none of them new, but all of them seen in a new light...it had not been generally realized that on the ability of the common man to support himself hung the prosperity of everyone in the country".
The remarkable ability of the common cuckoo hatchlings Cuculus canorus (hereafter: cuckoo) to evict host eggs and nestmates from the nest (Fig. 1) has fascinated naturalists since the time of Aristotle [1], [2] but was first documented in the scientific literature much later – about 220 years ago [3].
As the information content of the additional data source improves, variance estimates from D2 mice calculated with increasing sample sizes, the ability of the common variance to describe the observed gene variances, calculated from four replicates of B6 mice, also improves.
To see if other species might also use the sun, Jun-Xian Shen and Zhi-Min Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing tested the navigation abilities of the common ant Tetramorium caespitum, known for its complex social interactions, such as intercolony raids to recruit workers.
The wealthy and well-educated gentlemen who gathered 11 years later in Philadelphia to frame the Constitution shared Paine's distrust of monarchy but not his faith in the abilities of the common people, whom they were inclined to look upon as the clear and present danger seen by the delegate Gouverneur Morris as an ignorant rabble and a "riotous mob".
The line guidance approach includes maneuvers when necessary and the ability of maximizing the common parts of different paths used in the most of the nominal operations.
Research on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and related halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons (HAHs) historically has focused on the ability of these common environmental contaminants to induce cell transformation.
The objective of this study is to assess the ability of eight common models to predict the drainage relative permeability to oil in a three-phase system (water oil air).
These results suggest that the effect of body size on reproduction results from the ability of female common voles to reproduce from the age of 2 weeks in extreme cases [ 37, 73], long before reaching their "longest" body size (after 6 months of age; [ 36, 56]).
Overall, good correspondence between GPR estimates and the direct porosity values from the whole-core samples confirms the ability of GPR common offset surveys to provide rapid characterization of porosity variability in the Biscayne aquifer.
