Sentence examples for ability to crush from inspiring English sources

With Pujols, the business revolves around his stunning ability to crush a baseball.

Killebrew possessed a mild temperament, but his ability to crush a baseball, and the easy play on his name, brought him the nickname Killer.

Once the crowds are in the streets, the ability to crush revolutions depends on the ruler's willingness and ability to shed blood.

Although today's communications networks should make it possible for anyone to create value, communications companies that control access in America have the ability to crush competition and innovation.

So as Daly prepared for the Bell Canadian Open, which begins Thursday at Royal Montreal Golf Club, his fourth wife, Sherrie Miller Daly, had no problem explaining why her husband's charisma goes beyond his ability to crush a golf ball.

Contrary to some excitable first reactions, Russia's ability to crush the minuscule Georgian army does not make it a superpower, and its aggression in the Caucasus need not mark the start of a new cold war.

If you're playing someone who's blind, or shrinking from paralysis into a wheelchair, or in the cruel throes of some degenerative brain disease, then you get to show off two things at once: the technical virtuosity of twisted limbs or contorted facial muscles and the linked ability to display crushing emotional devastation.

The ability to survive crushing depths may mean they have enzymes that could be used by industries that use high pressures, ranging from fermentation to oil and gas.

"Will government regulation reduce Microsoft's ability to wield its monopoly to crush competitors?" asked Alex Edelstein, the managing director of the Angel Investment Fund in San Francisco, who left Microsoft to work for Netscape while those two companies were battling for dominance in the market for Internet browsers.

It's because they want to crush the ability of organized labor to shape the agenda on labor law.

Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, thinks satire is doing particularly well in the "middle ground"—in countries where freedom of expression is constrained enough to outrage people but where political repression is not so severe as to crush people's ability to communicate relatively freely.