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

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Now I have the ability to say, I've got a new class, I can create instances of a line segment, and it's elements are themselves instances of points. OK?

这就是我们要讲模块化的地方了，现在我可以说，我创建了一个新类，我可以创建线段的实例了,这些实例的元素？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

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