Sentence examples for ability to transform some from inspiring English sources

When Baldwin visited him at his home in Chicago, he was impressed by the Nation of Islam's ability to transform some of Harlem's more disreputable characters into Allah-abiding men.

Richard Dattner and M. Paul Friedberg, the designers of several Central Park playgrounds, paraphrased the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, who held that the "ability to transform some aspect of the environment … gave the child a sense of control and mastery".

Liver is an important target of the oxidative stress because of its exposure to various prooxidant toxic compounds as well as of its metabolic function and ability to transform some xenobiotics to reactive toxic metabolites (as ROS).

So-called two-in-one PCs, which are half tablet, half laptop, with the ability to transform in some fashion between the two, are about the only sector of PCs and tablets that's growing.

For workers to counterweigh this, a defining element is to what extent the individual worker holds agency, understood as 'exerting some degree of control over the social relations in which one is enmeshed, which in turn, implies the ability to transform these social relations to some degree' (Sewell, 1992, p. 20).

One mutation (Q131R) was greatly impaired for nearly all of the studied Myc phenotypes, yet was able to retain some ability to transform.

While some of these ideas, no doubt, transformed the world for the better, some — about the perfectibility of humanity and the ability to transform the world — ended up as the handmaidens of 20th-century tyranny.

But Nate's miraculous ability to transform himself into a Nazi is never believable.

I truly believe in the power of art and its ability to transform us all".

A longtime clandestine C.I.A. operative was skeptical about the rival agency's ability to transform itself.

Time, Inc, in fact, once represented the ultimate ability to transform content into money.