Sentence examples for claimed ability from inspiring English sources

They surrounded the leaders' compound at Zhongnanhai on three sides, but declined, despite a claimed ability to levitate, to occupy the lake on the fourth side.

As everyone knows, Justice Roberts finds the Obama administration's reliance on the commerce clause unpersuasive and would have declared the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional if it rested upon a claimed ability of Congress not only to regulate but to compel commerce.

"We'd want to arrange a mutually agreed upon protocol to test this claimed ability," Grothe told The Huffington Post.

Kushner has been pushing his own candidacy with Trump, citing his work on a criminal justice reform package and a claimed ability to work with Democrats, one person said.

The ability to read and write numbers had similar variability, although on average, more HBAs claimed ability to write numbers than to write words.

Consumption of elderberry including the North American subspecies (Sambucus nigra L. subsp. canadensis [L.] Bolli) has increased in recent years, mainly for its claimed ability to combat symptoms of common flu and other viral infections (Zakay-Rones et al., 1995; " Sambucus nigra (elderberry)," 2005; Vlachojannis et al., 2010).

"I believe that this opportunity to conduct a direct, simple, understandable test of 'Psychic Sally' and her often-stated ability is an excellent situation in which she will be able to not only establish her claimed abilities, but also move on to earn the million dollar prize that stands ready to be paid out," said Randi.

The JREF has offered John Edward a prize of $1 million if he can demonstrate his claimed abilities under mutually agreed-upon scientific conditions and without cheating--but he refused.

When a celebrity "psychic" spends so much time and money trying to quash reports of fraud and silence people who question her claimed abilities... yet turns down a $1 million opportunity in order to avoid a simple test that could prove she's on the up-and-up..

So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.

With a success rate of one in five, the results showed little evidence of the mediums' claimed psychic ability.