Sentence examples for aptitude from from inspiring English sources

In addition to examinations in these prescribed elementary studies the candidate must be examined on two more subjects, chosen, according to his tastes and natural aptitude, from the following list of nine advanced studies: Latin Translation.

Born in Kensal Rise, north-west London, only child of Frank, a clerk at Marylebone railway station, and Harriet (nee Wiggins), a ladies' companion, Collins showed artistic aptitude from an early age, winning at the age of eight a poster-colouring competition organised by the Evening News.

Mr Milburn, who stood down as an MP at the last election, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "There's a series of barriers that, maybe inadvertently, the professions put in the way of those with ability and aptitude from a variety of backgrounds getting even the first foot on the ladder into the professions.

In post-Civil War America, oratory was highly prized, and Bryan showed aptitude for it from a young age, raised in his father's house in Salem.

I think we're in a grungy bar called Camino al Cerro on Pío Nono (00 56 2 2732 6118), but really there's no way of telling one graffitied drinking den from another, apart from their aptitude for mixing a pisco sour, that is.

This aptitude results from the ability of transfer learning, where knowledge can be transferred from one situation to another situation, in which model parameters, i.e., learned features or contextual knowledge are transferred.

Given, then, the range of human aptitude -- from Helen Keller to the Rain Man; Michelangelo to Mozart; Edison to Einstein -- are we truly prepared to say that no human being could possibly perceive the energy field produced by our bodies?

The only glimpse of genuine aptitude came from those who stayed quiet and gave logically formulated responses to the questions that the other shit-munchers didn't know the answers to.

He was a good student with an aptitude for mathematics, though from adolescence he imagined becoming a writer.

He is a seasoned media executive (a former director of news at the BBC) who has shown an aptitude for making money from the arts.

Mr. Moschen's remarkable aptitude for creating illusions from objects he designs himself has stretched uncommon manual skills into a thought-provoking theatrical experience, one both visually dazzling and kinetically exciting.