Sentence examples for tendency and ability from inspiring English sources

Walmart is known for its tendency and ability to grind down prices, and it would seem like this situation is no different.

Peterborough United manager Darren Ferguson has said that Boyd "has the tendency, and ability, to score goals from long distance", talking after Boyd's 35-yard volley against Boston United.

The best thing about being a teenage girl, the best thing about being a girl at all, is the tendency and ability toward unfolding, with the readiness of a cootie-catcher that has within it the potential for every single truth, reality, maybe even the singularity.

These features differentiate prokaryote-type signaling systems from eukaryote-type systems, and might also explain the general tendency and ability of prokaryote-type signaling proteins to function as dimers.

We used this model school assay to show that sticklebacks from marine and benthic populations exhibit differences in two components of schooling behavior: they vary both in their tendency and ability to school (Wark et al. 2011).

Given their tendencies and abilities, Nerds and Geeks weren't recognised as actual people and were usually classed as "a type of abacus", having no legal rights whatsoever.

In these circumstances, women's tendencies and abilities to prioritize their health is largely compromised.

The latter suggestion is only partially consistent with the findings of Corcobado et al. (2012), who show that there is a significant difference in dispersal tendencies and abilities of social and subsocial spiders, but enough of a gradation within the two categories for the change to be more or less continuous rather than abrupt.

To reduce this potential misclassification, we separated the Fitzpatrick items into two questions that separately ask about burning tendency and tanning ability.

While I generally loathe self-indulgent, meme films like Garden State and 500 Days of Summer, there's something to be said for their genuine hipster tendencies and their ability to get audiences to wholeheartedly jump headfirst into the world of the characters.

Students enrolled in master level studies were found to have high achieving tendencies and academic abilities in their first semester, which support achievement motivation theory [ 7].