John Carroll, a historian of Hong Kong, said people here were "legendary for their resourcefulness and ability to recover" from economic shocks.
It was the police academy that didn't recognize the brilliance of Sabrina, Kelly and Jill; he was the one who tapped into their resourcefulness and ability to look fetching morphing into race car drivers, cocktail waitresses or mannequins.
The refugee crisis is a powerful testament to Jordan's resolve, resourcefulness and ability to offer human solidarity to more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees (Fears grow for 'ghost refugees' stuck at border between Jordan and Syria, 5 September).
I'm tempted to admire this uncouth organism, its resourcefulness and its ability to replicate.
Instead, the fascination with Mr. Crowley revolved around two factors: his compelling personal story of grit and resourcefulness, and his ability to spend millions of his own dollars to run against a well-financed Democratic opponent in a general election.
"We feel the film is about resilience, hope, bravery, resourcefulness and the ability to change the course of your own life," says Lisa Fruchtman, who won an Academy Award for film-editing in 1984.
On the advice of Sceg, every two days an intrepid narcissist would be sent packing for not matching Bear's "characteristics of a survivor": bloody-mindedness, resourcefulness, and the ability to perch with one leg upon a rock.
The Department for Work and Pensions and the NAS have since published a guide for employers, Untapped Talent, on taking on autistic people which highlights their aptitude for problem-solving and attention to detail, high levels of concentration, reliability, loyalty, excellent memory and detailed factual knowledge, retention, resourcefulness and technical ability.
The acquisition of the weaponry, the resources, the resourcefulness, the ability to put together the device that would destroy hundreds of thousands in a fell swoop has never been even mitigated against by the commitments he made to the U.N. 11 years ago.
Ching has a striker's resourcefulness, an ability to know when and where he and the ball will occupy the same space.
Parenting them requires tremendous patience, resourcefulness, an ability to set boundaries and, often, tirelessness and even fearlessness in the face of the kind of extreme acting out that can result from extreme trauma — in other words, a very specific skill set; one that most people simply don't have.
