Jordan Benedict (known as Bick and valiantly embodied by Brian D'Arcy James), a strapping cattle baron, returns to his immense Texas ranch from a visit to Virginia with a genteel, book-loving bride, Leslie (the ever-proficient Kate Baldwin).
The quest to build ever more proficient athletes keeps hitting unexpected snags, and perhaps nowhere is this more vivid than in Major League Baseball.
So it is with many features of organisms, such as thick shells, that would not require such great investment if ever more proficient natural enemies or competitors had not imposed relentless selection.
But like much of the regulation in Iran, the line between what is acceptable and degenerate, legal and illegal, remains fluid, so the crackdown has prompted a cat-and-mouse game between the conservative hierarchy and Iran's younger generation, which is growing ever more technically proficient.
I'm not the worst keeper ever seen, but not proficient either.
NIKE U.S. CUP Without getting too intoxicated with the moment, it is safe to say that the United States national team played perhaps its most solid and proficient game ever in Saturday's 4-0 tournament-opening victoverover South Africa in Washington.
After stating that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook was arguably the best, most proficient shot ever produced, Newell asked a question: "How many of you could see the possibility of a player like Kareem executing his sky hook within the parameters of your offense?" Not one coach raised his hand.
As much as everyone would like to see that situation rectified, however, a win for the burnished blandness of Unbroken is not the answer; proficient as ever, it's among the least singular work of his career, and in a film to which few want to hand Academy Award-winner bragging rights.
She attacks foes with her ever-present Piko Piko Hammer, with which she is very proficient.
Thus, now more than ever, biologists need to be proficient in mathematics and computer science to be able to acquire, analyze, and understand the significance of data (Gross, 2004).
"I can say without reservation that Mr. Fenton is the most proficient physicist I have ever met," one hospital official said.
