Sentence examples for resolve and ability from inspiring English sources

The requisite 'resting' period followed, but once someone of Harris's resolve and ability was noticed, as she duly was with White Teeth, there was no looking back.

The peaceful future of the region depends on the resolve and ability of Pakistan's secular and moderate religious leaders to provide decent government to their people.

However, participants also explained that the difficulties of community re-entry challenged their resolve and ability to follow through with safe sex in the community.

Our resolve and ability to push on, our resilience, is strengthened when we have a specific goal in mind.

The refugee crisis is a powerful testament to Jordan's resolve, resourcefulness and ability to offer human solidarity to more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees (Fears grow for 'ghost refugees' stuck at border between Jordan and Syria, 5 September).

The more you change, the more you want to change and your motivation, resolve, courage and ability to see things through will all improve as a result.

That resolve, and his ability to control the Council, could be sorely strained in the coming weeks.

The next president needs to start immediately on challenges that will require concrete solutions, resolve, and the ability to make government work.

He had endless resolve and his ability to see shots developing allowed him to roll with punches that would have turned the black lights out on others.

But the bond-buying program is risky because investors are likely to continually test the central bank's resolve — and financial ability — to bolster the weaker countries.

The cognitive concepts that we typically associate with "willpower" — motivation, resolve and an ability to delay gratification, resist impulses and consider and choose among alternatives — arise from distinct neural pathways in the brain.