He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Event organizers define "airness" as the ability of a performer to go beyond playing an imaginary guitar to create a new art form.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words,names,and faces that is most common as we age.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Widespread fraud marred the August 20 presidential election, and international observers have voiced concern about the country's ability to hold a new election in such a short amount of time.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The general also called for NATO nations to strengthen their ability to defend the alliance's home territory, in order to ease concerns among some new members in Eastern Europe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia last year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24