Sentence examples for direct ability from inspiring English sources

It is constructed by private organization in the UK, and so our direct ability to influence that is limited," he told lawmakers.

But the chamber still lacks any direct ability to force policy decisions on Mr Khamenei or the powerful forces under his control, including the Revolutionary Guard military establishment.

A high proportion of the work of this deeply sophisticated dramatist has been written for and produced by the commercial theatre; for such a reserved man, he has a surprisingly direct ability to connect to an audience.

Russia has little incentive to invest in spare capacity — in part because being outside the OPEC cartel gives it less direct ability to influence prices through the ebb and flow of production.

Well, consider last week's release of the latest report on the economic outlook by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or O.E.C.D. The O.E.C.D. is basically an intergovernmental think tank; while it has no direct ability to set policy, what it says reflects the conventional wisdom of Europe's policy elite.

In the current study, we have used of the simpler liposomal membrane to uncover that coatomer also possesses a direct ability to induce membrane curvature.

The selection demonstrates the Berlinale's ongoing readiness to champion artistic eclecticism, although festival administrators will be forgiven for hoping privately that the performer's directing ability surpasses that of her acting.

They'll be on a clean car!" Italian, French and American Vogue came knocking, and youth-oriented fashion brands such as Diesel, Wrangler and American Eagle were queuing up for the photographer's casting instincts and directing ability, capturing an unposed energy and sexiness while executing images with bright, attractive commerciality.

All four bifunctional adducts formed for each enantiomer, providing further evidence of the lack of directing ability of the ligand in formation of the 1,2-intrastrand adduct.

It is not surprising that the complex metabolic machinery of the gut microbiome has accidental, or directed, ability to alter our medicines and influence their efficacy.

[1] Describing here the first study in which AMMMn has been applied to functionalised arenes, we report the surprising finding that the synergic heteroleptic base employed reacts differently, seemingly depending on the directing ability (in a directed ortho-metalation (DoM) sense) of the substituent group on the aryl ring.