The colt's trainer, John Servis, and his jockey, Stewart Elliott, won a bunch of races on racing's second-tier circuit, but in the past five weeks they have shown that they possess first-rate skills.
What obsesses her is not why they launch the attack but how, and she realizes the many stages of it with first-rate narrative skill.
The company's Indian employees were not seeing poverty for the first time, but they were now equipped with first-rate computing skills, and many felt newly empowered to help their society.
Such jewelers, because of their rigorous training," she continues, "have a deep knowledge base and first-rate technical skills.
They must also achieve mastery of medical terms and their meaning, and must possess first-rate writing skills in their working languages.
Next I want to call attention to two books that have two things in common: both are by Buckleys father and son, respectively and are therefore distinguished by first-rate writing, great narrative skill and a splendid appreciation of the historic and the comic.
Reaching satisfying compromises with the head of a lab or the department chair requires first-rate communication and social skills.
Here we have a serious, first-rate novelist putting all his skills to work.
Even if this cryptic 70-minute double bill by Neil LaBute is imported from Dialogue Productions, it reveals the high technical skills and first-rate acting we habitually expect at this address.
Her people skills seemed first-rate.
Yes, you need to have first-rate scientific ability, but technical skills won't land you a job all by themselves.
