Sentence examples for uncertain ability from inspiring English sources

(Without American brigades nearby, these teams will have to depend on the extremely uncertain ability of Iraqi security forces to maintain enough order for them to operate).

Verizon (32%) and AT&T (31%) divide the vast majority of the market between them in terms of both spectrum holdings and revenues, with Sprint (17% market share) and T-Mobile (11%) barely hanging on as distant third and fourth players, with uncertain ability to constrain the prices charged by Verizon and AT&T.

Due to political leaders' uncertain ability to exercise firm control over the pastoralist militias who fight on their behalf, the Dinka Titweng and Nuer White Army have not been unambiguously supported by these same elites (Johnson 2003).

We address the question how much authority a principal should delegate to a manager with conflicting interests and uncertain ability in a context in which the manager has both compensation-based and reputational incentives.

Gordon Todd Skinner (known by friends as Todd) is an autodidact chemist of uncertain ability; indeed, whether he is a chemist at all is subject to debate.

Food insecurity has been defined as the 'limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways' [ 1].

The result may be that the workers experience that their membership status is uncertain, their ability to develop specialized roles, shared norms and a common commitment are weakened and their ability to develop a coherent strategy to carry out the work is limited [ 21, 23, 62].

In addition, the exponentially increasing global trend of plastic production and consumption, in a context of global financial crisis, makes extremely uncertain the ability to achieve already established objectives of reduction of marine litter26 at global, regional, sub-regional or national levels.

As an industry, we're continuing to evolve, and while the future of "big data in education" is uncertain, the ability of analytics to support instruction and improve student performance is anything but.

Most think that it has huge potential but are uncertain about their ability to take advantage of it.

Target, based in Minneapolis, said volatile back-to-school sales made it uncertain about its ability to meet analysts' estimates for the third quarter.