"Never Mind the Pollacks" is a blown opportunity, a smart premise that its author sabotages with an avalanche of potty humor and a seeming lack of faith in his ability to construct an actual novel.
Several methods based on Bayesian clustering have been developed [ 62- 64], however, STRUCTURE is the most widely used, and various studies show its efficiency in assigning individuals to their population of origin [ 65- 68] and its ability to construct an appropriate clustering hypothesis [ 61].
His use of the No. 11 blade depended on his ability to construct a gestalt of the surgical field first.
Clarke's ability to construct a fully imagined world — much of it explained in long, witty footnotes — is impressive, and there are some suspenseful moments.
While even the best fantasy novels don't sound particularly convincing in precis ("and then the hobbit had to escape from a giant spider"), Morgenstern's strength evidently doesn't lie in her ability to construct a narrative.
At the same time these candidates' books remind us that the ability to construct a powerful narrative is an essential skill for a politician, for it confers the ability to articulate a coherent vision of the world, to make sense of history and to define the author — before he or she is defined by opponents and the news media.
"A lot of the moves we make, as we manage our rosters," Schuerholz, Atlanta's general manager, said, "has to do with the team we're putting together for this year but with the ability to construct a team for years to come.
When you first last year talked about the threat of a "dirty bomb," when you announced Padilla's capture, what is the current state of your knowledge about Al Qaeda's ability to construct a so-called dirty bomb and to detonate it?
By the middle of the century, or a little later, the American workforce had been launched into middle-class status and had discretionary income and the ability to construct a future that allowed the next generation to maintain that upward mobility and even advance further on it.
One of the things that made Harry's story so affecting was Ms. Rowling's ability to construct a parallel world enlivened by the supernatural, and yet instantly recognizable to us as a place where death and the precariousness of daily life cannot be avoided, a place where identity is as much a product of deliberate choice as it is of fate.
Also, the candidates at a higher level displayed the ability to construct a sentence with more complex sentence patterns.
