Sentence examples for precious ability from inspiring English sources

Our most precious ability, the knack of creation, is also our most fleeting resource.

The structure provides the precious ability to set standards and entitlements to services at a national level.

Like Mr Blair before spin, Iraq, the cash-for-honours inquiry and time took their toll, Mr Cameron has the precious ability to make people feel optimistic.

Like Federer, he has the precious ability to hold the ball on his strings just a bit longer than usual before committing to a shot, which can leave opponents leaning the wrong way and shaking their heads.

He has the precious ability not to let the previous point affect the next one, and that is the most basic form of psychology in sport - stay in the present tense.

More importantly, though, and profoundly so if you're a grieving family member or friend of Ms. Bland, you have the precious ability to see through those walls now and to share what she was experiencing as she was stepped through all the stages of jail procedure from Friday afternoon through Saturday.

Yet at his best he could be inspired, and he had the precious managerial ability of inspiring others.

There was no fight, no organisation and, more worrying still, precious little real ability.

What do plans to sell off 150,000 hectares of England's precious woodland, the ability of people from small islands in the Caribbean to represent themselves in Whitehall, and the future of legal aid funding have in common?

It's about time for governments to stop interfering with a woman's right to determine how to manage her most precious gift, the ability to bring new life into the world.

"That's what makes his audience-garnering ability a precious thing".