To those in England who last saw Smith in the flesh as work-in-progress middle-order kingpin, Australia's No3 might still seem like something of an accidental batting genius, a probationary great-in-the-making.
The ridicule and the taunts that go on between calls are the necessary testing that cannot be carried out in probationary classes or in routine drills under the gaze of fire chiefs.
Boehner knows that the Republicans won only a probationary victory in November.
At 36, Mr. Rodriguez was one of the oldest probies, or probationary firefighters, in his class at the Fire Academy.
I am coming to the end of a probationary period in a job that hasn't really worked out and they are letting me go.
Eligibility is limited to those born in Oberammergau, those who have lived there for 20 years or those who marry villagers (which cuts the probationary period in half).
After all, ISIHAC underwent an initially fraught probationary period in which three different hosts (Dee, Rob Brydon, Stephen Fry) were auditioned publicly after the death in 2008 of Humphrey Lyttleton.
Akeshia Craven, the public schools' chief operating officer for elementary and high schools in the Polytech area, is optimistic that Polytech will be able to cast off its probationary status in next year's evaluation cycle.
Beginning in the 16th century, women's communities began to admit girls into the convents not as novices (those admitted to probationary membership in the community) but to educate them as gentlewomen.
Dr. Block at Irvine, for one, says she dares not extend her tenure clock, a decision that is made at the end of the probationary period in the University of California system.
