Sentence examples for achieving professional status from inspiring English sources

More substantively, "liberal" education came to be defined not as an end in itself but as a means to achieving professional status.

The number of people achieving professional status each year is in the low single digits, but for those who succeed, tremendous prestige is within reach.

It is in line with sociologists' analysis of professions which set out to achieve financial status as a key outcome of achieving professional status [ 21].

But most young athletes and their parents fail to realize that depending on the sport, only a tiny few — 2 to 5 out of 1,000 high school athletes — ever achieve professional status.

Nicknamed the Destroyer, for his ability to crush an opposing defense, Hammond never played high school or college basketball, yet, at the age of 19, he had already achieved professional status, and was touted by National Basketball Association scouts as a future star in their league.

As the team announced at the company's F8 developer conference today, the ELF OpenGo bot has now achieved professional status after winning all 14 games it played against a group of top 30 human Go players recently.

After they've put in the hours to attain professional status, she said, singers have about twenty or thirty years to achieve something near their best, and then to sustain that level.

Martin is unique in that he achieved top professional status despite a debilitating permanent disability.

Helton had begun the day by announcing to a drivers' meeting that because of its new television contract with Fox and NBC, Nascar had finally achieved "absolute professional status".

More important, if we don't do this, someone else will, ensuring that we never will achieve full professional status".

Yet, the achievement of some competencies, incrementally, may provide individuals with skills that are marketable well before they achieve their professional status (such as micro-specialisms).