Similarly, students need to become conversant with and capable of thinking critically about science, history and the social sciences.
Research team members received five days of training to become conversant with the survey procedures.
You need to become conversant in your research field.
"For that job, you have to get somebody who is conversant with real estate and knows real estate development, because that it the backbone of the job," Mr. Breslin said.
Given the overriding economic and budgetary problems, he has got to be conversant with the relevant economic concepts.
I was pretty conversant with her battle to get the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau mandated, and how Obama fell victim to Republican bullying to prevent her from heading the agency, which of course backfired on the opponents when she ran against Scott Brown for the Senate in Ted Kennedy's old seat and won.
And he is surprisingly conversant with TV soaps, and is angling to get George Galloway to join the debate that will follow The War That Still Goes On on February 12.
And we occasionally get families of some of these unsung heroes who are not conversant in dealing with the press who will say very earnestly, "Please put in 'He died surrounded by everyone he loved,'" and you just kind of say "uh-huh" politely and of course you know that's going to go right on the cutting-room floor.
In the first year it will be a bit of a problem but as people get trained, as teachers graduate from the college of education having started in English, and they go to school conversant in English, things will be moving faster".
I don't know how many 83-year-olds still get up and rock it out every week, but in light of the rumours, I wanted to tell you that he's vivacious and conversant about a ton of different things and he's still very active in a daily routine.
