After that you would stand or fall by your own ability.
Many of these schools refuse to group children by ability.
He wanted to win by his own abilities, nothing else.
You have to put pressure on teams by your ability to score.
They are pleased and surprised by his ability to help.
"People will judge us by our ability to overcome the past," he said.
That's how teams measure themselves, by their ability to beat the best.
She was the best judge of what to do now; he would live or die by her instinct and ability.
A pilot project groups math students by ability rather than age.
And people lived or died by their ability to, to produce a competent result at the end of the day.