She was too shy, she said, and lacked the technical proficiency that is a must for any practicing photojournalist.
In these, space, colour, and detail are handled with a crisp proficiency that may have influenced Raphael.
At the low end you have abysmal standards of academic proficiency that create the illusion of achievement where little exists.
With enough practice, he claimed in his book Outliers, anyone could achieve a level of proficiency that would rival that of a professional.
The officers may have been confused by their squad-car computers' drop-down menu of infractions, which displayed a federal statute on English proficiency that applies to commercial drivers.
And if some groups engage in a bit of bombast at times, that does not change the extraordinary understanding of music theory and composition, and technical proficiency, that goes into writing and performing the music.
The swift military victory in Iraq has raised a critical question for the future of armed combat: Has the United States attained a new level of proficiency that will transform the nature of battle much as the machine gun, the tank and air power transformed warfare in earlier days?
As knowing consumers of art it seems we don't want the mixed media to include sweat, whether it's revealed by a hard-earned proficiency that would be inaccessible to the generality or by work that seems unperturbed by laborious repetition (the "every sequin sewn on by hand" effect which you get from some of Gallagher's work).
Because we have this capability, we can move at a speed and proficiency that has never before seen in our industry.
Studies on university students' academic success and on predicative validity have largely explored the various factors, including language proficiency, that affect GPA.
The findings may also apply similarly to other well-designed, balanced four skills tests of academic English language proficiency that are used in the Japanese context (e.g., TEAP).
