Her strength really lay in her ability to conjure and her quick thinking.

His fault lay in his ability to pick good men.

For Marshall, the importance of wealth lay in its ability to promote the physical, mental, and moral health of the general population.

But the beauty of this program lay in its ability to convey the imprint of each director.

The greatness of Liljefors lay in his ability to show animals in their environment.

He has maintained that his talent lay in his ability to train.

He said the strength of an insurgency lay in its ability to change rapidly.

The man whose greatest value to the City lay in his ability to get along with them.

The weakness lay in the triffids' apparent ability to learn, in at least a limited way, from experience.

It lay in her ability to reconcile opposed ideas and make the result seem the soul of fidelity.