A friend or colleague amasses a tremendous amount of knowledge in some arcane or specialized field and mistakenly thinks this proficiency applies to everything.
Still, it's stripped back and palate-cleansing, and has a hint of funk in the choppy rhythm stabs before the headbanging finale which lift it slightly above bland proficiency.
There are no end of horror stories about actors claiming proficiency in a particular skill, then trying to wing it on the day and coming badly unstuck.
To maintain that level of proficiency through the next two series is asking a lot, especially from someone with a chronic back condition and England will target him very strongly.
UK-trained dancers, they said, are rarely of the same technical proficiency as those coming out of the Parts school in Brussels or the Juilliard school in New York.
Even if LCDS, Laban and NSCD were to focus more rigorously on pure technical proficiency, it's questionable how well this would serve the majority of their students' long-term interests.
His passing is good and is as important as his ball-stealing proficiency (he has recovered 34 balls so far in the competition, behind only Chile's Gary Medel).
The organisation would also like to see Bikeability – a 21st-century version of the cycling proficiency test – as part of the school curriculum.
The permutations are endless, but if the answer is no, the dilemma remains: do you answer truthfully and risk losing the gig, or assure them of your proficiency and hope for the best?
George Bush championed the law; Congress supported it wholeheartedly.The deadline for proficiency now looks comical.
That may not apply to the knottiest part of reform: what to do about America's 11m-12m immigrantsmigrantwo-thirdsirds of whom have lived in the country for over a decade (and 80% of whom are Latino).The Senate bill would allow most undocumented immigrants to apply for citizenship after paying back-taxes, displaying English proficiency, passing a background check and so forth.
