"You will need no introduction to the world's political and military leaders, and will begin - on day-one - fully conversant not only with the intricacies of U.S. policy, but with an understanding of the nuanced approach necessary," Menendez added.
Bialek and Botstein (2004) quote Galileo who wrote that "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics" and suggest that biologists must become "conversant not only with the language of biology but also with the languages of mathematics, computation, and the physical sciences".
It will be essential not only for risk assessors to become conversant with the language and concepts of mechanistic research, including new omic technologies, but also, for researchers to become more intimately familiar with the challenges and needs of risk assessment.
Also, those persons who were not able to speak either Sinhala or English could not be included in the study; this comprised a minority who were only conversant in Tamil, and thus could not be included in the study.
Not only did I learn quite a bit of new material, but I became somewhat conversant with the state of high technology in this country.
Not only do dealerships' Web sites need to be up-to-date and easy to use, the staff members must be "conversant with the information provided," he says.
Not only does English play a critical role within private corporations, government employees under the age of 50 are also expected to be conversant in English (Lamb 2000).
Workers not only need to have a certain level of technological savvy just to compete in some entry-level jobs in traditional industries -- such as demonstrating a facility with one or more types of business software like Microsoft Word or Excel -- but they must also be conversant in the fundamental technologies in which high-tech companies compete.
In addition, while students may be aware of (but not conversant with) the fundamental ideas of variation and natural selection, they are generally not aware of the kinds of evidence and reasoning that support these ideas.
Mr. Torralba acknowledges speaking the language but says he is not fully conversant.
