His most popular characters, the doggedly determined Mickey Mouse and the libidinous Donald Duck, represented the ordinary man's ability to triumph over any adversity, even a Great Depression.
Despite its high-tech facade, Idealab is something of a throwback to an age when entrepreneurs were dabblers and practically everything depended on one man's ability to keep inventing new ideas.
Standing 6 feet 6, with a shorter man's ability to dribble and pass and a willingness to play with toughness and unselfishness, Gola was sui generis in that era of basketball.
At this stage, talk of joining the England ranks was far-fetched yet the renaissance in his career had much to do with his move to Bolton in 2003 where Sam Allardyce reassessed the front man's ability as a goalscorer.
We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - it's the courage to raise one.
Kittinger, now an octogenarian, has been an integral part of Baumgartner's team, and has provided the Austrian with advice and encouragement whenever the younger man has doubted his ability to complete such a daring venture.
The answer is: some sign of an ability to understand and empathize with what solders on the front lines are going through, which in turn would shed light on the broader question: is Mr. Romney the kind of man who has an ability to understand and connect with people as people, rather than treating people as things?
The ability to detect man-made interference is not much use unless the source can be located, however.
He was a man of unquestioned integrity and ability, and initially enjoyed widespread support from the employee population.
Now he can only hope the public shares that ability to separate the man from the art--or, even better, a short memory.
Given Kidney's focus on man management, his technical coaching ability has occasionally come in for criticism but Kelly says such comments are unfair.
Nevertheless, his legacy lingers as a man whose willingness to dream and ability to inspire helped set the pace and direction for a new industry.
Captain Martin Walker is a one-man army (or the leader of a three-man army, anyways) whose ability to carve through countless foes is unmatched in any action movie.
So our ability to distinguish "man bites dog" from "dog bites man" hinges on the attention that we pay to ordering and grouping, that allows us to get two different meanings out of the same set of words.
The man's energies were prodigious, and his ability to work under pressure never ceased to amaze me.
An ability to read the game, beat a man, find the killer pass and drop back to defend.
Along the way to becoming a neurosurgeon he faced other obstacles, including the belief that perhaps a young man born in Mexico could not possess the intelligence or ability to serve patients in such a demanding field of medicine.
George C Scott was a complex man whose reputation as a hellraiser belied the range of his ability.
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At 61 he is still a handsome man, with a full head of chestnut hair and the ability to wow a live audience.
The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
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The main man in the national team, Davids seems to have found the ability to hold his more egotistical urges in check without compromising his dominance on the pitch.
That ability led some to consider him Iraq's most powerful man.
As charming as Peter is, Hook will be the meat of the series, made so by Mr. Ifans's ability to convey all the passion, despair and horror of which a man may be capable.
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Their answer has been to produce a poor man's computor, a machine that calculates electronically, but has neither the ability to store data nor the power to plan its own operations that are peculiar to a full-sized electronic brain.
He is the man who made his wealth by his creating, his ideas, his efforts and his ability.
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Huxley's ability to knock out Hollywood scripts for Greer Garson while still thinking seriously about man's place in the universe (a universe which had been unravelling ever since his grandfather and Darwin had entered the public fray 80 years earlier) has not, by and large, recommended him to posterity.
It states that marriage is only possible between a man and woman and warns that a change in law will "severely restrict" Catholics' ability to "teach the truth about marriage in schools and other arenas if they are also expected to uphold the opposite view at the same time".
"Andy Marsh demonstrated to me that he is the right man to lead the force, that he shares my vision for the future and has the ability to inspire officers and staff to deliver my priorities and to make Hampshire and the Isle of Wight an even safer place, " he said.
The trial of a man accused of murdering new bride Anni Dewani in South Africa has been postponed for assessment of his ability to concentrate.
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