Sentence examples for ability to bend from inspiring English sources

"I'm interested in Britain's ability to bend the world to our way of thinking," he said.

Society, she says, shows a "yogic ability to bend over backwards to... accept and normalise" the subordination of the female.

Liberal ideologues lost whatever faith they still had in Clinton's purity, independents in his ability to bend government to his reformist will.

Someone's ability to bend their knees or hold a pen are not the only factors that determine how likely it is that they can get a job.

Mark Jackson, as an eightysomething waiter, has an uncanny ability to bend himself backwards at a right angle, and to slide down walls.

The clean living movement is full of people who value glowing skin and the ability to bend into a human pretzel more than political change.

It's the great players' beautiful interpretation of "winning ugly" – demonstrating the ability to bend games not to their will but to their skill.

If people are on a path and making legitimate moves and choices, I'm content to not push the curve beyond its ability to bend.

Obama spoke of limits — the limits of American money, power, time, attention, of our ability to bend the world to our will — as much as of possibilities.

Scarpa had other qualities that made him a dangerous choice for informant: he was shrewd, and he had a proven ability to bend people to his will.

They also learned that "under certain circumstances, the F.B.I. has the ability to bend or suspend the law and impinge on the freedom of others".