Sentence examples for ability to get at from inspiring English sources

That's Britain in 2016: a Keep Calm and Carry On tea towel made corporeal and whole, a cup of tea that grew arms and legs and the ability to get at least half an erection watching a Spitfire flyover.

"Ravelstein," the novel, thus becomes a litmus test of The Novel's vitality, a demonstration of the elasticity of the form and of its superior ability to get at the heart and soul of a character.

This process will take at least three years (the police phone-hacking investigation still has 3,800 victims to contact) and presupposes that police officers have the intellectual ability to get at the truth, through any miasma given off by corrupt colleagues and journalists and newspaper executives under suspicion.

Mr Holder said strikes on the Khorasan Group would "probably continue until we are at a stage where we think we have degraded their ability to get at our allies or to the homeland".

Maybe that's not surprising, given widespread job insecurity and the restrictions that limit your ability to get at the money in retirement accounts before age 59 and a half, without paying a 10% penalty.

"I think the Treasury has the ability to get at all the documents and the banks themselves have the right to those documents and they can request them from the originators," he said.

"We have these tools in the criminal justice system," he said, noting that in some cases, "you don't necessarily need just the N.S.A. or the C.I.A.; you have abilities to get at them and to infiltrate them and to stop them — it just adds to the arsenal of ways to go after these people".

"The ability to get him at a million-two, I thought there was some real value there," Cashman said of Park.

As a very senior citizen, I am aware that this encounter could have ended my ability to get around at all, much less on a bike.

For younger New Yorkers, the advantages of an evening out over cocktails are distinct: less money, less hassle, less commitment and an ability to get home at a reasonable hour on a weeknight for those many who live outside Manhattan.

"If I have a child with autism, there is no effect on our house value, on the ability to make friends and on an ability to get promoted at work," said Dr. Grinker, who wrote the book "Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism" about life with his autistic daughter, Isabel, now 21.