Sentence examples for absence of ability from inspiring English sources

Wagner and Widdecombe are not the first in their respective fields – last year John and Edward Grimes (aka Jedward) on The X Factor and John Sergeant on Strictly Come Dancing were permitted by the public to parade their colossal absence of ability for weeks past their sell-by dates.

Only those who were empowered with the skill of literacy can take responsibility for all the reading and writing we need to do throughout our lives; there can be no such responsibility in the absence of ability.

Reducing the background further down to drug class resulted in a marked loss of ability to detect true-positive SDRs in the bicalutamide/anti-androgen (model 4) and vildagliptin/DPP4I (model 8) analyses, and an absence of ability to detect any true-positive SDRs in the metformin/biguanides analysis (model 7), indicating that models 4, 7, and 8 were not useful.

Several molecular and biological characteristics for this virus include: absence of oncogenicity, ability to accommodate large amounts of foreign genetic material, ability to be maintained in an episomal state in dividing cells and capability to infect several cellular types derived from different animal species.

Qatar's efforts to use sports as a pillar of its soft power and a key building block in its foreign, defense and security policy in the absence of the ability to create the hard power it would need to defend itself are further undermined by perceptions that it is backing jihadist groups in the civil war in Syria.

Sample return from the surface will validate our collective ability to successfully accomplish such a roundtrip to Mars in absence of the ability for end-to-end testing on Earth.

The ability to tolerate and even celebrate coinciding identities is one of the hallmarks of sophistication; the absence of that ability is a mark of desolation.

"Interestingly, in the same text, Freud also suggested that dreams about the absence of the ability to fly — i.e., falling — also indicate succumbing to sexual desire.

As was noted above, the absence of this ability to refer to a class of entities is typical of a name.

The musical notation of the early manuscripts is quite elaborate, and thus, along with the forms of the Latin texts, it enables conclusions about the nature of the musical forms employed, even in the absence of any ability to transcribe it into modern notation.

f8 this year felt the noticeable absence of his ability to show the sentimental side of even the most mechanical update to Facebook's product.