Sentence examples for ability to keep him from inspiring English sources

When it came to the severity of Jonathan's asthma, and her own ability to keep him alive, Debra Reid was, apparently, quite realistic.

It was the same self-flagellation that had driven him to quit skating in 1998 and become a car salesman, the same acid opinion of his own abilities that seemed to keep him from winning a major race.

It's not hard to see why Alof de Wignacourt was awestruck by Caravaggio's abilities and wanted to keep him on Malta as some sort of court artist.

Through his parents, I have known Mr. Barry since he was a child, and I lost the ability to keep up with him on a bicycle some time after his 12th birthday.

Confidence in its ability to keep changing, keeping doing better.

The mutant character, who first appeared on the page in 1974, isn't dead by the end of the first issue, but he has lost the healing ability which has helped to keep him alive for more than a century.

Shamir has a diva's ability to draw you in, but also a diva's ability to keep you away from him, at a distance that he determines.

A big part of the answer will be Nadal's ability to keep his head about him, and compete with the furious composure that is his greatest strength.

When I asked Mark about his ability to keep his wits about him in big surf, to be timing wave intervals in situations where other surfers are struggling with panic, he shrugged, and offered a theory: "I've been taking hits of pure adrenaline all my life, through my asthma inhaler.

That kind of ability will make it hard to keep him off the field, and he likely won't spend too much time on the sidelines because of it in the future.

Brannagan's technical prowess had once alerted Barcelona to his abilities, and Liverpool worked hard to keep him, with coaches believing he would make the next step providing he started to imprint his personality on youth games by consistently becoming the best player on the pitch.