Sentence examples for Wide-ranging skill from inspiring English sources

Murray, an understated overachiever with a wide-ranging skill set that includes yacht design, would go quite a bit further than most: He won a record six consecutive 18-foot skiff world titles, from 1977 to 1982, and at only 25 earned an invitation from his fellow Australian Syd Fischer to be the helmsman on his challenger for the 1983 America's Cup.

Certainly, they have diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging skill sets, but as a group these spouses are united by a shared military community experience that lends itself to building independent, adaptable fast learners.

Both pieces are likely to be physically intense, challenging the wide-ranging skills of CandoCo's seven performers.

His lifetime batting average was.295, and his wide-ranging skills led him to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1970.

It's the moral thing to do, but it also makes business sense – in today's global world, if companies do not possess versatile, wide-ranging skills from diverse employees, they will fail to innovate and will lose out to the competition.

The soundtrack made the most of her wide-ranging skills as an instrumentalist – she also played the piano and various saxophones – and as the leader of an all-female ensemble comprising Born, Marilyn Mazur (drums), Kate Westbrook (tenor horn), Eleanor Sloan (violin), Rosemary Nalden (viola) and Linda Houghton (double bass), in keeping with Potter's premise for the film.

The authors write that companies are finding "that many of the very best ideas lie outside their organizations, in an ecosystem of potential innovators who possess wide-ranging skills and knowledge". But the advantages of using competitions to pursue innovation must be set against the potential costs and risks.

Together faculty and staff enrich the University community with their unique perspectives and wide-ranging skills and expertise.

In terms of Europe, the significant mobility afforded to EU citizens has definitely resulted in a wide-ranging skills pool in many places (including Dublin and London).

The CD attests to those wide-ranging skills.

Clarinetist David Shifrin and three of his colleagues of Chamber Music Northwest--violinist Ik-Hwan Bae, cellist Warren Lash, pianist William Doppmann--fail to minimize the Messiaenic longueurs, but the wide-ranging skills of Shifrin (it is the clarinetist's show), provoke unqualified admiration.