Sentence examples for skilled acts from inspiring English sources

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Apraxia, the inability to carry out useful or skilled acts while motor power and mental capacity remain intact.

"Not only speech," he wrote, "but all skilled acts seem to involve the same problems of serial ordering, even down to the temporal coordination of muscular contractions in such a movement as reaching and grasping".

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This whimsical creature (and icon of Valentine's Day) sees two people and shoots them down with his bow and arrow -- apparently a skilled act of violence makes people instantly fall in love!

And surely, with their modest though highly skilled tightrope act, their trapeze performances and pratfalls, they pose no threat to three-ring extravaganzas like the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The US Senate may take up a minor reform bill, The Fairness In High Skilled Immigrants Act, which would end country-specific caps on high skilled visas (H1-B).

In an important step toward reducing the green-card backlog, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act of 2011, which passed the House in November, is active again after Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, lifted his hold on the legislation last week.

By contrast, middle-skilled migrants act as complements to new equipment, implying some kind of productivity gains.

A consistent triumph of pacesetting style over traditional substance, this circus relies on literal smoke and figurative mirrors to present highly skilled but familiar acts in an extraordinary manner.

God, on this view, is not a skilled mechanic who acts upon the world, but a prolific artist who lives in and through it.

These exercises enhance the skills and capability of AFP members, which can enable skilled operators to act as force multipliers, adding tremendous value to their units.

The twins were viewed by police as a criminal double act, skilled at evading prosecution by exploiting the fact that neither the police nor their victims could tell them apart.

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