Spearmon talks about his race. "Before the race I felt kind of tired and I ran to the best of ability.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

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

He says identifying human antibodies that will stop the ability of the virus to reinvent itself is the first step.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

But the population of the animals known for their ability to travel far without much water has fallen sharply.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The disease especially affects the ability to see, the sense of touch and the use of the arms and legs.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

People who have lost their ability to do many things are sometimes able to regain some of these abilities with treatment.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

He was honored for his art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new kinds of characters.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

It also found that the children's ability was not dependent on the amount of time they had spent in child care.

VOA: special.2010.11.30

But she points out that the success of the treaty depends on the ability of nations to enforce it.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

She used nothing they told her, however,unless she could prove it was true to the best of her ability.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent infections from the human immunodeficiency virus, better known as H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Another study found that almost half of American workers expressed concern about their ability to provide for immediate family needs.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The other was its ability to reduce the amount of virus in the blood of people who became infected during the study.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

It found that their lack of complex products like futures and derivatives limits the ability to spread risk.

VOA: special.2009.12.11