(a.) Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
(5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
(11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
(13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
(14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
(17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
(18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
(19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
(20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
Tradespeople
Definition:
(n.) People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employment growth has been strongest in the high-skilled and low-skilled occupations, but the number of jobs requiring mid-skilled workers – skilled tradespeople, machine operatives and administrative and secretarial workers – is shrinking.
(2) Everyone who comes to this country, be they footballers or tradespeople or businessmen, has a fundamental right to work and live in a racism-free environment.
(3) It now has almost 50 direct employees, but finding additional tradespeople nearby has been a challenge, he admits.
(4) This means tradespeople – from plumbers to hairdressers – are likely to be relatively insulated from technological replacement.
(5) Main rate of corporation tax to be cut to 25% • Pledge to match Labour's spending plans for 2010-11 in health and overseas aid • Consumer Protection Agency to address high levels of personal debt • Abolition of Financial Services Authority with supervision of the City handed back to the Bank of England Education • Develop schools under the Swedish "free schools" and the US "charter school" models: small, autonomous institutions run and set up by parents, teachers, universities, faith groups and voluntary groups • Recreate technical schools, which vanished in the 1950s when their popularity dwindled, offering pupils aged 14 to 19 training and apprenticeships to become skilled tradespeople.
(6) Lesser villains were: mobile phone & TV companies (18%), house-builders and tradespeople (16%) and companies that provide public transport, which were named by a mere 13%, even though the survey was conducted within three weeks of the New Year rise in rail ticket prices.
(7) Now, as builders take on new work, the shortage of skilled tradespeople has allowed bricklayers and other subcontractors to ramp up their hourly rates .
(8) They run small firms, often as self-employed tradespeople.
(9) In Torbay, the most "at risk" are indebted families living in low-rise estates; mixed communities with many single people in the centre of the small town, and self-employed tradespeople.
(10) Last year the Catholic church also supported DUP efforts to introduce a conscience clause allowing tradespeople to discriminate against gay people.
(11) After its savage recession, the construction sector is still scrambling to get brick plants back to full capacity and to train more tradespeople.
(12) Compared to this time one year ago, more than twice the firms are reporting difficulties recruiting these tradespeople.
(13) Momote airport has also seen the coming and going of the legions of guards, tradespeople, medics, interpreters and officials required to wrangle, secure, house, assess and care for the asylum seekers.
(14) Robb has also pledged to toughen visa conditions to address concerns about the easing of mandatory skills assessments for licensed tradespeople such as carpenters and electricians.
(15) Ask most British builders about the country’s bricklaying excellence though, and they will probably tell you good tradespeople are as rare as their expertise.
(16) It is possible to have sympathy with plumbers and builders and electricians and decorators who struggle in a competitive environment now that times are leaner, while remembering how impossible and extortionate it had become to employ such tradespeople at the start of the millennium.
(17) Studies of printing industry tradespeople have reported an increased problem of dermatologic abnormalities, including contact dermatitis and dermatitis attributed to solvent exposure.
(18) Shops, small firms and tradespeople are among the heaviest users of bank branch counters, and the FSB said the rapid pace of closures was presenting some tough challenges.
(19) Neither is it just traditional self-employed tradespeople in Hammond’s sights.
(20) The industry has been held back by a shortage of skilled tradespeople, which has sent wages for bricklayers and plumbers rocketing.