Susan Rice is an extraordinary intellect and underrecognized as a diplomat, but Kerry is simply more qualified for State; being conversant in five languages doesn't hurt either.
Otherwise, a senior federal official conversant with housing observed, "If this does happen, it will be in a few California cities, three to five years from now, and it will be a boutique solution to a much, much larger problem".
Bush wore a blue pin-striped suit and black cowboy boots (as well as pink wool socks), and he seemed more conversant with the nuances of policy than he does at press conferences.
They say it happens when a rider falls and becomes trapped between the platform and the side of an incoming train, horribly squashed but somehow, because of the pressure, kept in one piece -- alive, conversant even -- as long as the train does not move.
My ignorance represents the attitude of many biologists toward math and statistics; if our own research or teaching doesn't require us to be conversant in a particular aspect, we ignore it.
She saw the transvestites she treated "as generous and brave," says Dr. Person, a calm, precise and elegant woman who does not immediately strike one as likely to be conversant in a triple-X world.
The role that advanced metrics has in an announcer's booth is, of course, different from the one it has in the office of a general manager, who needs to be conversant with every measurement there is these days, even if he doesn't believe in every one of them.
Whereas once the sports bar was content to evoke, say, the Pittsburgh Steelers' beef-jerky-gnawing quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger, the new model is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots: urbane, dapper, conversant in topics that don't involve statistics and unembarrassed by a big fat pitcher of pink.
He's skilled and adept anent the subject and is most conversant with what investigations do and should entail.
Not only does English play a critical role within private corporations, government employees under the age of 50 are also expected to be conversant in English (Lamb 2000).
