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If someone is a qualified and experienced fighter jet pilot on Soviet types, it’s a matter of a few months to get them trained proficient with something like F-16s. – Justin Bronk	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun -- was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him, many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting. – James Ison	Found on CNN 1 year ago
During the wet dress rehearsal activities, we have incrementally added to our knowledge about how the rocket and the ground systems work together, and our teams have become proficient in launch procedures across multiple sites, we have completed the rehearsal phase, and everything we've learned will help improve our ability to lift off during the target launch window. – Tom Whitmeyer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Respectively, those are the percentage of proficient readers in second grade for the school years 2018-2019, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 at Brewbaker Primary School in Montgomery, Alabama. – Said Bennett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Sailors train regularly to man this ship to the utmost of its capabilities, which means that on favorable weather conditions its sails could propel it well past 10 knots, whilst this is not a speed comparable to modern ships, when combined with a proficient crew, it would certainly give the ship an edge over four narcos on a home made drug-carrying raft, fast as it could have been. – Alessio Patalano	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Whilst this is not a speed comparable to modern ships, when combined with a proficient crew, it would certainly give the ship an edge over four narcos on a home made drug-carrying raft, fast as it could have been. – Alessio Patalano	Found on CNN 2 years ago
All my children are taught and practice safety to include gun safety at an early age. It’s a sport and hobby we all enjoy, not all gun owners are evil villains. A firearm is a tool. You have to practice using that tool to become proficient incase you ever need it (sic) utilize it. Firearms are not bad as they are often portrayed to be. – Larry Millete	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I had to train repeatedly to be proficient in the use of a gun and most of the new buyers who went to their gun store and bought a gun have no training whatsoever, in their mind they might be confident. They might think that they're die-hard ready to go. But unfortunately they're more like Tiger King and they're putting themselves and their families in danger. – David Chipman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When we're able to identify those students who are not proficient and above, and we know that they've had disrupted learning and that there has been loss, shouldn't we be thinking about the necessity of keeping them in front of us so that we could support and accelerate closing that gap ? and that represents a very specific population. – Lisa Herring	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Maybe now is a good time to say, ‘We are not able today’ or ‘Give us a six- or 10-mile lineup rather than a four-mile lineup’, which you might accept when you are more proficient and (flight experience is) more recent. – Peter Meiresonne	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We hope that a good bill gets to my desk, i'm very empathetic with the nurses on unduly burdening them so they can't be proficient in their work and so I just hope this gets resolved in a way that we have serious legislation. – Jay Inslee	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We needed to do this, and we need to do this in increments, because we wanted to make sure that our students began moving more toward the proficient level and being more prepared for fourth grade. – Kymona Burk	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Al Sharbi’s been deemed a high-risk individual who allegedly attended a training camp in Afghanistan and is a self-proclaimed bomb-maker, other detainees told interrogators Al Sharbi had been seen talking to Bin Laden, was very proficient with weapons and had been selected for specialized remote control detonation training. – Brian McGlinchey	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Learning to eat healthy is like learning to speak a different language, you learn a little at a time until you’re proficient. – Craig Weller	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Our Defense Department has grown larger but less capable, more complex but less innovative, more proficient at defeating low-tech adversaries but more vulnerable to high-tech ones. – John McCain	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. – Phyllis McGinley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago

If someone is a qualified and experienced fighter jet pilot on Soviet types, it’s a matter of a few months to get them trained proficient with something like F-16s.

– Justin Bronk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun -- was very proficient in that, very tactically sound and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him, many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen that took action very quickly within the first two minutes of the shooting.

– James Ison

Found on CNN
1 year ago

During the wet dress rehearsal activities, we have incrementally added to our knowledge about how the rocket and the ground systems work together, and our teams have become proficient in launch procedures across multiple sites, we have completed the rehearsal phase, and everything we've learned will help improve our ability to lift off during the target launch window.

– Tom Whitmeyer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Respectively, those are the percentage of proficient readers in second grade for the school years 2018-2019, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 at Brewbaker Primary School in Montgomery, Alabama.

– Said Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Sailors train regularly to man this ship to the utmost of its capabilities, which means that on favorable weather conditions its sails could propel it well past 10 knots, whilst this is not a speed comparable to modern ships, when combined with a proficient crew, it would certainly give the ship an edge over four narcos on a home made drug-carrying raft, fast as it could have been.

– Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Whilst this is not a speed comparable to modern ships, when combined with a proficient crew, it would certainly give the ship an edge over four narcos on a home made drug-carrying raft, fast as it could have been.

– Alessio Patalano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All my children are taught and practice safety to include gun safety at an early age. It’s a sport and hobby we all enjoy, not all gun owners are evil villains. A firearm is a tool. You have to practice using that tool to become proficient incase you ever need it (sic) utilize it. Firearms are not bad as they are often portrayed to be.

– Larry Millete

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I had to train repeatedly to be proficient in the use of a gun and most of the new buyers who went to their gun store and bought a gun have no training whatsoever, in their mind they might be confident. They might think that they're die-hard ready to go. But unfortunately they're more like Tiger King and they're putting themselves and their families in danger.

– David Chipman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When we're able to identify those students who are not proficient and above, and we know that they've had disrupted learning and that there has been loss, shouldn't we be thinking about the necessity of keeping them in front of us so that we could support and accelerate closing that gap ? and that represents a very specific population.

– Lisa Herring

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Maybe now is a good time to say, ‘We are not able today’ or ‘Give us a six- or 10-mile lineup rather than a four-mile lineup’, which you might accept when you are more proficient and (flight experience is) more recent.

– Peter Meiresonne

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We hope that a good bill gets to my desk, i'm very empathetic with the nurses on unduly burdening them so they can't be proficient in their work and so I just hope this gets resolved in a way that we have serious legislation.

– Jay Inslee

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We needed to do this, and we need to do this in increments, because we wanted to make sure that our students began moving more toward the proficient level and being more prepared for fourth grade.

– Kymona Burk

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Al Sharbi’s been deemed a high-risk individual who allegedly attended a training camp in Afghanistan and is a self-proclaimed bomb-maker, other detainees told interrogators Al Sharbi had been seen talking to Bin Laden, was very proficient with weapons and had been selected for specialized remote control detonation training.

– Brian McGlinchey

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Learning to eat healthy is like learning to speak a different language, you learn a little at a time until you’re proficient.

– Craig Weller

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Our Defense Department has grown larger but less capable, more complex but less innovative, more proficient at defeating low-tech adversaries but more vulnerable to high-tech ones.

– John McCain

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

– Phyllis McGinley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

– H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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