Eventually, the girls lose the ability to speak, walk, and use their hands effectively.
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And he believes the ability to speak more than one language makes children more tolerant and accepting.
Ebert has fought cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands, and lost the ability to speak following surgery.
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Proponents noted the benefit of an SPV to investors as the ability to speak with a unified voice.
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In almost every line of work the ability to speak a second language makes you a valuable asset.
All too often leadership is seen as the ability to speak well in public, to be persuasive, to be loud.
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When my Mom was in the hospital with the last stroke, which left her without the ability to speak, I visited her.
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Viljoen awoke with the ability to speak in complete sentences.
It used to be joked that the main qualifications for attendance at its ministerial bashes were the ability to speak English, and a fondness for golf, karaoke and durian, a pungent fruit.
Biden brings to the table an ability to speak knowledgeably about issues ranging from foreign policy to to the country's domestic agenda.
The result is the ability to simply speak to change the channel, and browse, bookmark and search for content on both live and On Demand TV programming.
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Answer: It's only a penalty if you think there's a right for a wealthy candidate to speak all he wants, and to limit the ability of his opponent to speak.
The essence of good Shakespearean acting is an ability to speak the text.
The indictment does not restrict Stevens' ability to vote in the Senate, speak on the Senate floor or participate in committee work.
The two candidates evidently prepped mightily, trying to learn all the facts they could about the economy, the country, and the government, but the sheer amount of data that they were clearly both filled with got in the way of their ability to speak cogently about national issues.
The iPS cells, which have many of the same basic properties, do not raise the same ethical questions as embryonic stem cells because they come from skin or now fat cells that have been reprogrammed to go back in time, so to speak, and have the ability to turn into any other kind of cell in the body.
After cancer surgeries in 2006, Ebert lost portions of his jaw and the ability to eat, drink and speak.
But he used his inimitable ability to speak to the hearts of the American people and to appeal over the heads of the cynical, can't-do elite.
During the past two presidential elections, we have seen millennials' ability to exercise their power, speak up and change the fabric of our nation.
The U.S. women speak with awe of Japan's ability to make the ball stick to their feet as though their boots are coated with Crazy Glue.
At the University of Konstanz in Germany, neuropsychology professor Thomas Elbert uses plasticity-based therapy with stroke patients who have lost the use of a limb or their ability to speak.
Kathy Lennon, who was one of the singing Lennon Sisters and became friends with Funicello after appearing on "The Mickey Mouse Club, " said she and Funicello stayed in touch until a few years ago, when Lennon made her usual call to wish the actress a happy birthday and learned that MS had robbed her of her ability to speak.
She has been the main person in making sure that my ability to speak here was made possible.
Now that he has lost his ability to speak and eat, the days are passed mostly in his room.
Ebert, who originated At The Movies with fellow critic Gene Siskel in Chicago in 1975, left television in 2006 after multiple cancer surgeries resulted in the critic losing his jaw and his ability to eat, drink and speak.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
His implant gave him the ability to hear, but he had to play catch-up to learn how to speak vocally.
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