Sentence examples for an ability to split from inspiring English sources

With an exceptional roster – Orange Juice, Josef K, Aztec Camera and (from Brisbane) the Go-Betweens – the label's bands became accidental architects for much of what would later become known as indie pop: wryly romantic lyrics; janglesome melodies; an aura of artiness that never devolved into aloofness; an ability to split the difference between the Velvet Underground and American soul music.

And as the exultation of the "authentic" reaches near-hilarious heights in the design community, with young bloggers creating endless catalogs of "authentic" items like denim or Prouvé chairs, it's not hard to see how a simple handmade ax, and all it implies (a knowledge of wood craft, or the ability to split a log or pitch a tent), would find an eager market.

BFAST also has the ability to split an index into 4n pieces (this number is chosen for efficiency), although the lookup phase of the alignment takes somewhat longer because each read will undergo a lookup attempt for each partial index.

The system has the ability to split a potentially larger failure into isolated "islands," each of which can be solved independently and efficiently.

Papain is widely used as a meat tenderizer because of its ability to split large molecules.

Rudy's power is the ability to split into two, creating a sort of twin; this happens to him involuntarily, at moments when his emotions are heightened.

Facebook's new ability to split friends among groups takes a step toward addressing this reality.

First, you download a specialized app (seven are planned) that has the ability to split your screen into two rectangular viewing fields.

Indeed, we found that the sciatic nerve, with a typical diameter of approximately 1.2 mm, had the ability to split into at least nine new fascicles or nerves.

Nkoloso seems to have possessed a comic version of this condition, the ironic dédoublement — the ability to split oneself — that Charles Baudelaire saw in the man who trips in the street and is already laughing at himself as he falls.

This might also be due to limitation of the MCR algorithm and its ability to split the contribution of this element between a significant number of components.