capacity for action

Our problems are alarming, but no less so is the lack of capacity for action.

The capacity for action by the international community in these situations must, on the whole, be improved.

The capacity for action or accomplishment: lacked energy to finish the job.

A large proportion of these problems can be solved if the Council demonstrates a capacity for action.

It expects an affirmation of Europe's international role, greater resolution and more capacity for action.

But his capacity for action was impaired by his age and failing health.

Capacity for action in Information Services has the basic form of assertions.

"When they come back, they have certain ideas and certainly a technical capacity for action," the French official said.

In the current times, we know what we are up against but we have lost the capacity for action.

Build Phase where the player can increase his or her total capacity for action by deploying a single foundation card.

His quiet, disciplined demeanor concealed an explosive capacity for action.

Rather, practical forms are conditioned by local social structures through the provision of specific capacities for action.

She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

Symonds was morbidly introspective, but with a capacity for action.

A 1947 law calling for an end to illiteracy drew attention to the government's limited capacity for action in this area.

At the same time the weakened capacity for action of the astral body hinders its separation from the physical.

Should it not improve its capacity for action, as Mr Rack pointed out?

"Perhaps you Morlocks underestimated my capacity for action," I snapped at him.

"Judging from my obser-vations," he said, "you are rapidly losing your capacity for action.

The Lisbon Treaty offers new tools and has enhanced our capacity for action.

Never before has the EU been faced with greater challenges to its capacity for action and enlargement.

His capacity for action is admirable.

This includes support for approaches intended to increase participation, improve connectedness of efforts and strengthen the various participants' capacity for action.

Mr. Paul Somerset was a young gentleman of a lively and fiery imagination, with very small capacity for action.

We have also sought this Constitution in order that an enlarged EU should have the capacity for action.