Sentence examples for special aptitude from inspiring English sources

He has often said that he showed no special aptitude or poetic promise as a child.

There are now over 400 "specialist" schools, which can select up to 10% of pupils according to a special aptitude, say for mathematics or music.

She became a European commissioner not because of any special aptitude, but because Gordon Brown was determined to avoid a byelection, and so couldn't send an MP.

Thinking someone so interested in the business might have a special aptitude for it, Mr Mason offered William Miller a job as an assistant on the firm's small mutual fund, the Value Trust.

Balliett also discussed Bennett's special aptitude for the songs of Richard Rodgers, writing, "Bennett undersings him in such a way that Rodgers' superb melodies seem to come to life on their own….

By keeping in constant touch with the stairs, making a personal study of the individuals, and especially by entrusting them with a measure of responsibility, much may be done to encourage those who from actual observation show special aptitude.

Children with special aptitudes or physical attributes are plucked from their families and farmed to thousands of sports schools across the country.

First, its assessment and training programme includes a three- to five month-long individual assessment where participants clarify their strengths, weaknesses, special aptitudes, capabilities and interests.

But labourers differ in the amount and character of their training, in their degree of skill, intelligence, and capacity to direct their own work or the work of others, and in the other special aptitudes that they require.

At school, Nansen worked adequately without showing any particular aptitude.

A physician showing special interest and aptitude for ultrasound (as noted by the physician directing the ultrasound training) was chosen at each hospital to act as the local ultrasound coordinator for that site.