It is going to be about the candidates' past performance and future ability.

But the military chiefs voiced concern that even with the new money, the Pentagon's future ability to fight would be hurt by continued budget cuts.

Personal Bankruptcy will eliminate most, if not all, of an individual's debt, but it also impacts their future ability to obtain credit.

And there is significant concern that banks' future ability to lend to home buyers could be hit by difficult wholesale funding conditions.

Is he saying that last year's Social Security surplus did not enhance the government's future ability to pay benefits?

"We should not prematurely cap their future abilities and undermine the strength of our armed forces."

Illustration put her mother's mind somewhat at ease as to the potential of her daughter's future ability to be self-sufficient.

Yet this leaves a crucial gap: what of engineering developments firmly based on present science but awaiting future abilities?

When engineers project future abilities, they test their ideas, evolving them to fit our best understanding of the laws of nature.

Whether we will all survive economically depends on the Union' s future ability to shape a fisheries policy in the new century.