But just as often he has taken the odd supporting role in projects that barely tested his abilities, like the 1988 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," in which he played a Klingon, his head encased in latex.
Since Bauer was an inexperienced illustrator by comparison, Lundholm tested his abilities by sending him to create some drawings of Sami people at Skansen.
After recovering from surgery, Sorto tested his ability to control the arm in the laboratory, something he described as surprisingly easy.
England's bowlers again suffered at the hands of Haddin, who scored his fifth successive first-innings half-century and, frankly, batted like a dream as England repeatedly tested his ability to put away the short ball with varying degrees of violence.
This kind of program helps the student solidify his knowledge and test his abilities.
The designer flicked through them, discarding all but 20, and asked him to create a small collection to test his abilities.
Iwamura was 3 years old when Nomo retired from the Kintetsu Buffaloes at the peak of his career so he could test his abilities in the United States.
Matsui has completed the minimum nine years needed to become a free agent under Japanese rules and wasted no time in announcing his decision to test his abilities in the major leagues.
The house at top is negligible, the "abandonment" below richly rendered, and any painter who could do that would surely need to test his abilities against the ferocious blizzards of painting without any house at all.
He was eager to test his abilities in nonscientific experiments, to plug his brain directly into Final Fantasy XIV just straight-up computer-game interface". One afternoon, he told me, "I always say, why don't we call Guinness, and do a bunch of stupid crap there you go, world record, never been done!
But finding a compromise in the spending fight could test his abilities as well as those of the two senior staff members assigned to take part: William M. Daley, the new White House chief of staff, and Jacob J. Lew, the director of the Office of Management and Budget.
