Sentence examples for they were proficient from inspiring English sources

The report praised some states' proposals, including Rhode Island's, for setting clear plans for turning around failing schools, and Illinois's, for declaring that all students would have to prove they were proficient in English.

Pop music is all about becoming rich and famous in the shortest possible time, but there is something to be said for playing regular gigs at joints like the Red Onion, as Los Lobos did: by the time they began recording, in the late nineteen-seventies, they were proficient in ways that their punk peers never achieved.

Because New York state exams had become predictable and easier to pass -- to the extent that students were told incorrectly they were proficient in certain subjects -- the state, in conjunction with testing company Pearson, developed a set of lengthier and more rigorous tests this year.

To add to that, the test scores the analyses are based on were determined by the state Department of Education to have been inflated because the exams had become predictable and easier to pass -- to the extent that students were told incorrectly they were proficient in certain subjects.

These heuristics were not created by design, but were simply actions that they were proficient with and enjoyed using.

The doctors who answered the questionnaires believed that they were proficient in the foreign language.

"I insisted that they be proficient," he said.

People want to work on what they're proficient at.

Until they are proficient in this area, they will falter in all the others.

The rest are supposed to be trained until they are proficient.

Hyenas are tireless trotters with excellent sight, hearing, and smell for locating carrion, and they are proficient hunters as well.