Early in her career Henin was prone to choking and, despite her wonderfully fluid backhand and fine serve, she perhaps lacked the aptitude of a champion.
The actor, who appeared with Mr. Arnett in the television comedy "Arrested Development," said he was an "aspiring filmmaker" but lacked the aptitude for conventional commercials.
The supervisor whose mistakes investigators say helped cause a worker's death on April 29 lacked the aptitude for the job, despite scoring highly on training exams and receiving satisfactory job evaluations, according to a report by New York City Transit.
As a result of the sheepskin craze in this country, far too many students who lack the aptitude to perform college-level work but who are nevertheless talented in other areas are admitted, only to drop out in short order.
An array of prizes and professional accolades among female professors has provided a powerful rebuttal to critics who suggested after the earlier report that women simply lacked the aptitude for science — most infamously, Lawrence H. Summers, whose remarks set off his downfall as the president of Harvard.
The project at San Francisco State will include overturning stereotypes that students of color and women lack the aptitude to succeed in the sciences.
All-through jet training was dropped in 1971, subsequently being labelled "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots".
He did not take part in jousting, either because he lacked the aptitude or because he had been banned from participating for his personal safety, but he was certainly supportive of the sport.
The experiment was dropped after two courses as being, in the words of the official historian of the post-war RAAF, "an expensive way of finding out that some pupils lacked the aptitude to become military pilots"; by 1971 students were receiving 60 hours of basic training on Winjeels at Point Cook, and the Maachi course at Pearce was reduced to 150 hours.
