This ability of ductile materials to flow plastically under load is fundamental to their usefulness in engineering.
This ability of the stomach to circumspectly admit alcohol directly into the body would thus appear to be a defensive mechanism.
So, as you see, this ability of the younger Mr. Bush to get entangled in the obscurer thickets of the language is not that unusual.
It is this ability of the ligand to act as both a Lewis base and a Lewis acid that is responsible for the stability of metal carbonyls.
This ability of the government to set the economy on a healthy path makes the proposed intervention much less risky than would otherwise seem to be the case.
This ability of Baker's — to snatch little impressions in the chopsticks of his prose — is on good display in these essays.
This ability of recognition allows us to distinguish persons despite the facial resemblance between them.
This ability of a population to cope with the changing environment by adaptation we call evolvability.
This ability of such NPs prevents the healthy cell from being altered.
This ability of sensing the environment in which they were immersed allowed robots to act consequently.
This ability of words to have multiple meanings is called polysemy.
