Barrios also took steps to professionalize the Guatemala military.
In 1894 Hale founded The Astrophysical Journal, which helped professionalize astrophysics by defining standards by which astrophysical phenomena were to be described and discussed.
Separate agreements were reached on military aid, primarily to professionalize the Mexican army and its small air force.
In the interim, Kennedy said, he and Blue planned to "professionalize" the industry, starting with its image.
Levine hopes that treadmill workstations will eventually become cheap enough for everyone to use, but he says he wanted the Steelcase imprimatur right away, in order to "professionalize" the desks and make them seem more than "kitsch".
"From then on, we were consciously trying to professionalize," Piv Bernth, of "The Killing," said.
Under Mérida, the U.S. is sending equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters and high-tech border-inspection gear, to Mexico and, in a broad effort to help modernize and professionalize Mexican law enforcement, providing training to thousands of police officers, customs officials, prosecutors, judges, prison guards, and other public-security personnel.
"We've got to professionalize our movement, and we can't rely only on labors of love, like what Paul did".
After 20 years of anarchy, of squatting and relying on a sympathetic City Hall to keep away the eviction notices, they must learn to professionalize, to find a long-term perspective for cultural visions and lifestyles.
RIPPER STREET (BBC America, Jan . 19 Matthew Macfadyen ("MI-5") and Jerome Flynn ("Game of Thrones") play detectives trying to professionalize 19th-century policing in a series that combines the costume procedural ("Copper") with the vogue for London's East End ("Whitechapel," "The Runaway," "Call the Midwife").
Conscription was suspended indefinitely here in 2011 as part of a drive to professionalize and modernize the armed forces.
