Sentence examples for waning ability from inspiring English sources

That in itself is a reflection of his waning ability, as the Cancellara of old would probably have formed that move.

They discuss Putin's role in the separatists' military initiative, the effects of the region's instability on NATO, Angela Merkel's role as mediator, and the U.S.'s waning ability to keep violence under control.

Last month Fangraph's Jeff Sullivan wrote something interesting about the waning ability of major league catchers to "frame" pitches — i.e., make a ball look like a strike to home plate umpires.

While Mr. Cameron may have been cheered by the powerful faction of his Conservative Party that sees evil in all that Europe does, it is unclear if the constituency his veto was meant to protect -- banks, hedge funds and insurance companies operating in the City -- will embrace the prospect that Britain's already waning ability to influence regulations from Brussels will decline even further.

Experts say the two failed robberies in relatively close succession are a sign both of the fugitives' growing desperation to obtain money, as well as of their waning abilities as a criminal force.

You have to approach these things with a relaxed mind: tell yourself that you're doing this for pleasure, not as a test of your waning abilities.

Its global power is visibly waning, its ability to win wars distinctly in question, its economic viability open to doubt.

His powers waning, his ability to keep two families sustained reducing by the day as he aged and his heart grew weaker, he had already begun to hatch a plan as to how he could release his daughter without too many questions being asked.

And though the LRA's numbers have waned, its ability to render an entire region vulnerable, and in immediate need of assistance, has not.

Already, with Mr. Hollande only 100 days in office and on a seaside vacation, public confidence is waning in his ability to square the circle, even as the economy worsens.

The importance of this effect depends on the inherent effect of waning on the ability to participate in poliovirus transmission.