Sentence examples for ability to tame from inspiring English sources
The promise of optical antennas is the ability to tame the light to behave in ways not achievable using traditional optical components.
Gorbachev's ability to tame or dismember the ministries is considered to be the key to the success or failure of "perestroika".
Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America, said rotating auditors "would significantly reduce audit clients' ability to tame their auditors".
To Mr. Corzine -- who has spent more than $100 million to move from the executive suite at Goldman Sachs to the governor's office and is aware that he will ultimately be judged on his ability to tame the state's party bosses -- that kind of knowledge could turn out to be priceless.
Conductor Sakari Oramo dutifully avoided mentioning Brexit in his speech, but nobody can have doubted what he was alluding to when he quoted Shakespeare's Lorenzo, in The Merchant of Venice, talking of music's ability to tame wild beasts and warring opponents into "a mutual stand".
He worked his technique with such precision he would aim for a corner of a particular brick, time and again, with different pace and power and spin to see how it changed the ball's trajectory and challenged his ability to tame it.
Linda the trainer was none too impressed with our abilities to tame our six-pound indoor sprinkler.
Men's ability to self-regulate, to tame themselves ― and by doing so, society ― was upheld as masculinity's positive good for civilization.
Since 2010, the year that the Tea Party insurgency began rocking the G.O.P. establishment, the ability of incumbents in Washington to tame its right wing has ebbed and flowed.
He explained it was not just his smooth service action that enabled him to tame the breeze but his ability to make last-second adjustments.
But the latest detonation was more than a nuclear test; it also tested the abilities of the new governments in the region to tame the North's nuclear and missile ambitions.
