Sentence examples for familiar skills from inspiring English sources

They often seem to want demonstrations of familiar skills.

Meanwhile, at times, Sampras displayed his own familiar skills -- big serve, crushing forehand -- but they were not nearly enough.

As President of the Supreme National Council, he will exercise his all too familiar skills in balancing off pressures from one side against the other whilst ensuring that his own person remains at the fulcrum.

While his sculpted poses and flying balances rely on familiar skills, dancers are turned inside out as they try to penetrate the stillness coiled at the heart of his style.

According to Bill Shaw, Marriott's president, the time-share business draws on his company's familiar skills of managing accommodation, and helps it fill its hotel rooms by offering its time-share customers deals to swap some of their holiday allowance for weekend stays in Marriott hotels.Not everyone wants to be part of a chain.

Although he used some of his more familiar skills in making the movie ("Being a fashion photographer, I made sure she looked her best all the time"), he seems, on the whole, to have absorbed his subject's lifelong aesthetic of diligent, unceasing wheel-reinvention, her determination to remain, in every aspect of her art, an inspired amateur.

True, "Riding the Bullet" gets off to a strong start and builds with its author's familiar skill.

Instead of using the subconscious part of the brain, which is the most efficient way to deliver a familiar skill (like talking, walking or remembering a maths formula during an A-level), we use the conscious part.

It took an outstanding opponent in Miguel Cotto to stretch him to the limits of his extraordinary talent but he found a way, not in desperation, but in the brilliant execution of familiar boxing skills that delivered him his 43rd victory and the Puerto Rican's WBA light-middleweight title.

These colourful rooms often require quite a bit of familiar platforming skill, plus the use of Cappy to pull levers or activate temporary platforms.

Game hunting was a familiar beneficial skill to the colonists when they immigrated to the New World.