"I had a proficiency for picking notes off records," said John McEuen, a childhood pal who went on to join the country-rock group the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
Unlike the poet who can manage with a piece of charcoal and the back of a cigarette packet, the photographer has to have a proficiency with things mechanical and, today, electronic.
"We live in a world that's far more interrelated and interactive than it used to be; having a proficiency in languages is something that's valuable in terms of employment later on".
It has demonstrated a proficiency at reasoning skills, and therefore thinks every problem can be solved entirely with that proficiency.
Ms. Isaacson's students had a prior proficiency score of 3.57.
Because Pae's administrators and teachers are state employees, they are now required to have a certain proficiency in Estonian and to use it in more classes.
The elementary and middle schools included in the litigation had a 16 percent proficiency rate in English in the last school year, while the citywide average was 42 percent.
When a buffet tray gets low, a waiter calls through an intercom, set at a startling volume: "We need more pineapple chicken up front!" When Rain arrived in the U.S., he assumed that he had a fair proficiency with Chinese food.
I don't know what makes a person turn to a career in comedy – perhaps those promising Hollyoaks auditions came to nothing, or they have a natural proficiency for lax personal hygiene – but I know that the ultimate aim is to appear on a panel show.
They need to understand the capacities of the new technologies, to have a personal proficiency in their use, and be able to promote a school culture which encourages exploration of new techniques in teaching, learning and management.
