She qualified as a paediatrician in Leningrad and continued to practise into her sixties, despite the damaged eyesight she had sustained through a war injury.
To have reached this standard of international excellence, most have been playing since they were seven or eight, but what has kept them playing and practising into their rebellious years is the fact that the pipes are now regarded as very sexy indeed.
Does primary care, as practised in the UK, fall into the 60%?
We practised tacking into the wind and gybing with it at our backs and became proficient in tying up to buoys and jetties, anchoring, tying knots... Now all we had to do was persuade someone to hire a £200,000 yacht for as little money as possible to a group of people with virtually no experience.
Practised in an indoor swimming pool converted into tennis courts because of a shortage of facilities.
As it played, the Namibians practised vigorously smashing into foam tackle bags.
I've little doubt that most happiness statistics, such as those collected by the ONS, and happiness economics, as practised by Andrew Oswald, fall into the latter category.
They practised transforming lists of words into colourful sets of objects, which they arranged in their imagination around familiar spaces.
This family history inspired "A Golden Age," in which Rehana Haque sheltered her son and other resistance fighters in her guesthouse as Pakistani soldiers "looted homes and burned roofs," "lined up the men and shot them into ponds," and "practised old and new forms of torture".
Rather than adopt the 'Hey, wouldn't it be wacky if we suddenly burst into song?' approach practised by Ally McBeal, the Buffy musical was entirely organic to the series' labyrinthine progression".
