Sentence examples for imperfect skills from inspiring English sources

I spent weekends with their children, flying kites or trying my imperfect skills at soccer with them in a nearby park.

If, however, the individual was properly matched in the home labour market but is over-educated in the host country, then perhaps the existing explanations of imperfect skill transferability and/or discrimination could be put forward for such an outcome.

Alysia takes great pains to emphasize her father's loving if imperfect parental skills.

Patients with some remaining but imperfect language skills may actively retreat to simplistic utterances or even avoid verbal communication, replacing speaking and writing by gestures and pointing.

In the book "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science," Dr. Atul Gawande describes the unique challenge health care workers face in honing their skills.

An Imperfect Science To be sure, mammography is an imperfect science, relying on the quality of film and the skill of the radiologist.

Imperfect science, no doubt.

This result is in line with earlier findings in the literature and has been often rationalised with reference to both the imperfect transferability of skills across countries as well as considering that immigrants' skills become more country-specific with longer work experience in the origin (see Chiswick 1978 and Chiswick and Miller 2007).

Second, they may hold imperfect knowledge and skills on action research.

The imperfect substitution among skill groups helps to position the wage effect for each of the groups around this pre-determined average wage effect.

Realising these opportunities, however, is not straightforward as the forecasting skill is imperfect and approaches to applying the existing skill to management issues have not been developed and tested extensively.