Sentence examples for inclination and ability from inspiring English sources
Yet one effect could be to restrain Mr Brown's inclination and ability to build a political recovery on profligacy.
Franklin had a different editorial policy: "I hereby invite all Men, who have Leisure, Inclination and Ability, to speak their Minds with Freedom, Sense and Moderation, and their Pieces shall be welcome to a Place in my Paper".
Just as interesting, children typically stood idly by and watched the mistreatment of their classmates — apparently, the inclination and ability to protect one another and to enforce a culture of tolerance does not come naturally.
As the field of artistic creation increases, so does the study of creation and of its preconditions; the vigor and depth of academic and critical thought regarding the creation of popular art makes it all the harder for those of creative inclination and ability to assume the effort without a sense of risk and even guilt.
Free-market economies help create a middle class that is less susceptible to state pressure and political patronage.Perhaps most important, democracy needs leaders with an inclination and ability to compromise: what Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of The Economist, called a "disposition rather to give up something than to take the uttermost farthing".
In effect, his mighty lust for power clashed with his mighty artistic inclinations and abilities.
This will, in turn, affect providers' inclinations and abilities to invest in growth, better provision, staffing and innovations – all of which are vital to stemming the weakening international competitiveness of UK higher education.
There was a fixed Bachelor of Science curriculum taken by all midshipmen; McCain's classmates were impressed by his cramming abilities on mathematics, science, and engineering courses and thought his low grades were by inclination and not ability, while McCain would later acknowledge that those courses were a struggle for him.
On the other hand, so are our taste for sugar and fat, our warmaking inclination and our ability to question received knowledge, just to mention a few.
Rather than sending American soldiers to do a job for which the Palestinian leadership has shown no inclination or ability, the United States should let its real ally in the war on terror -- Israel -- get on with it.
These days, few people south of the border have much hope that a mere change in leadership will restore Washington's inclination or ability to take a lead on regional affairs; one recent poll found that almost two-thirds of Latin Americans knew next to nothing about the race for the White House, and had no preference whatsoever between the two candidates.
