Sentence examples for ability to wound from inspiring English sources

Even casual comments take on a barbed ability to wound.

Each smile or frown has the ability to wound.

It is a talent matched only by his ability to wind up opponents.

Far from making herself the heroine, she sends up her own narcissism, and her ability to wind people up.

Julie Burchill, for example, has the ability to wind me up quite out of proportion to the importance of what she writes.

The government also has authority to set more stringent capital standards and to establish an "orderly liquidation process" that gives regulators "the ability to wind down firms whose failure would have serious adverse effects on financial stability".

Now, as Mr. Obama prepares to begin his second term, Congress has tried to further restrict his ability to wind down the detention of terrorists worldwide, adding new limits in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2013, which lawmakers approved in late December.

Policy makers need to move quickly to the next step: giving the E.C.B. or another central agency the power to create a central authority that insures public deposits across the euro zone and the ability to wind down weak banks or directly recapitalize them.

What can interfere with your brain's ability to wind down for bed?

Lights signal to our brain that it's daytime and can interfere with our bodies' ability to wind down for sleep.

If a large financial institution should ever fail, this reform gives us the ability to wind it down without endangering the broader economy.