The cases in Trial Bureau 50 seasoned the idealistic young lawyer and honed her trial skills.
Analytic talents honed in the major take them to law school, venture capital, medicine and policy-making.
His game was honed on the crowded, competitive, open-to-the-public salmon water in his home province.
Here his arguments are well-rehearsed and finely honed from decades of combating American fundamentalists.
The teaching process is now finely honed: from start to finish, rollout takes just seven weeks.
Mr. Obama's political arm, Organizing for America, pulled out strategies honed during the 2008 campaign.
Some, like Michel Parmigiani and Peter Speake-Marin, also honed their skills restoring vintage rarities.
"It's stupid, " said Robert Lansdorp, who honed the strokes of Maria Sharapova and Lindsay Davenport.
During the short period I learned the basics of the profession and then just honed it.
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Men still tip their hats, in a well-honed system with "do-as-you-would-be-done-by" at its core.
That likely meant adopting a more modular approach to development--something the personal computer industry had honed.
Millions of years of evolution have honed the skeleton into the perfect shape for survival.
Our modern naval traditions come from Britain and were honed during the War of 1812.
But since the California campaign, which they acknowledge was badly run, they have honed their tactics.
But quicker than you can say subprime solar, Fenster launches into a well-honed spiel.
Yet using skills honed at Funabashi station, Mr Noda pulled off what supporters call a miracle.
After that, she adds, most tend to return home, taking their newly honed skills with them.
The cheetah is perfectly honed to hunt gazelles but the gazelle is equally well equipped to escape cheetahs.
Almost all of the convention speeches were too much like scripted television and advertising, honed to perfection.
Eventually we honed in on Tuesday 21 December and hoped that it wouldn't clash with a game.
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Still, he believes his first-mover advantage and his well-honed marketing strategies will help him beat his rivals.
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Forty years of well-honed investing instincts makes Ab Nicholas believe this latest bull market is growing old.
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Using business skills honed in the markets of the Gulf, Alukkas has built a jewelry retailer in India.
Skills learned in service or honed on the battlefield are not easily translated to the regular job market.
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According to Richman, future Moneyball general manager Billy Beane honed his analytical skills playing Strat-O-Matic as a youth.
Sam Mendes has certainly honed his craft in the last two years: but only in a technical sense.
Buckingham honed this skill years before joining Fleetwood Mac when he was bedridden with mononucleosis for six months.
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If so, Jones figures he'll just shift course again, a skill honed during his days in the service.
Honed by hours in the kitchen, this recipe gives the mild pumpkin two strong allies: sweet potatoes and vodka.
Twenty years later he caught Margaret Thatcher's eye as leader of Bradford council (local politics honed his campaigning skills).
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