Sentence examples for ability to decide a from inspiring English sources

In accusing Congress of voting "to deny the federal courts the ability to decide a key constitutional issue involving gay marriage" ("A Radical Assault on the Constitution," editorial, July 24), you got it backward.

countered that although they did not want to hinder their district's ability to operate, the power to decide a rate increase should rest with the ratepayers – and that power should be easier for them to exercise than it is under voter-approved Proposition 218. .

Without an ability to decide on a distinct course of action, the political salesman's gift is squandered.

The ability to decide on a next move as an adequate reaction to others' decisions is associated with theory-of-mind (TOM) [46] [49].

Analytical problems call for the ability to decide whether a sequence of vectors converges to a given vector.

They had everything I didn't: blond hair, blue eyes, the power, seemingly, to get anything and everything they wanted in my small public high school — boys, head cheerleader, the ability to decide, in a twinkling, who was cool and who wasn't.

"The mandatory nature of the law is problematic because it takes away doctors' ability to decide on a case-by-case basis what is best for that patient," she said.

Under the standard "death qualification" procedures used in many states, which were upheld by the Court today, judges examine prospective jurors before trial in capital cases and exclude "for cause" those who oppose the death penalty so strongly that they doubt their ability to decide impartially whether a convicted defendant should be executed.

Building on an idea that O'Connor had raised in earlier opinions, the trio said that abortion restrictions would be rejected "only where state regulation imposes an undue burden on a woman's ability" to decide whether to have an abortion.

"NHTSA ought to have the ability to decide what is an appropriate fine," Waxman said.

I agree that a fundamental right for a woman's right to privacy is the ability to decide whether to have a child.