The Soloist (2009) Foxx brought his classical training to bear on his role as Nathaniel Ayers, a real-life musical prodigy whose career is derailed by schizophrenia.
Gennadi Saveliev of Ballet Theater brought his Bolshoi training to bear in "Gopak," Rostislav Zakharov's theatricalized solo based on the Ukrainian Hopak.
For now, she, like her boss, describes her job in generalities, though she makes it clear that she will bring her training to bear on the schools.
The extraordinary recording of that conversation, all 4 minutes 11 seconds of it, provides a rare glimpse not only of the last thoughts of a suicidal killer in the moments after a deadly shooting spree, but also of a seasoned officer bringing his training to bear at precisely the right moment.
Harriet Walter is mesmerising in one play after another, bringing her classical training to bear as a conflicted Brutus, then a Henry IV who wears his crown heavily, and finally a Prospero who knows that the steel bars of prison are resistant to all magic.
And in the campaign of 2008, Michelle Obama was bringing the full force of her personality and her training to bear.
Altmann, troubled by the androcentric focus in primatology and less than rigorous methodologies, brought her perspectives as a woman, a feminist, a mother, and a mathematically trained scientist to bear on improving research methods.
However, doing so will require America's ground forces to provide at least 20,000 combat advisers for the duration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — men and women specially equipped and trained to help foreign forces bear a greater share of the combat load.
"Isn't it better to kill them than to have them die of disease or starvation?" said Chris LaFlamme, who let Samantha and the other hunters sleep in a cottage he owns and supplied dogs trained to sniff out bears.
All three bears could use the number of dots to guide their choices, but the bear trained to pick groups with more dots performed better on its tests and could also discriminate with moving dots, researchers report online this month in the journal Animal Behaviour.
