• "For a two-year-old child to remain calm and have the knowledge and ability to dial 999 is remarkable, " he said.

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  • Even if it is clear that young people are involved in their societies, it is still necessary to give them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic life.

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  • Being the seedbed of our collective future, the school has always been the place where we nurture our children to grow in knowledge and ability, and to flourish in both personal and social virtues.

    UNESCO: Speech by Hon Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin During the 185th Session of the Executive Board

  • However, on more than one occasion I have found a lack of information in an area which I have some knowledge and ability to contribute to, yet upon clicking "edit" I have always abandoned the notion that I can contribute because of the complexity of the process.

    BBC: Wikipedia: Your thoughts

  • "Stem cell research has the potential to act as the key which opens the door to many advances in our knowledge and our ability to treat some of the most heart-rending conditions that are presently untreatable, " said the Aberdeen South MP, who suffers from a genetic condition called Gaucher's disease which results in brittle bones.

    BBC: MPs vote to extend embryo research

  • Our knowledge is limited and, just as importantly, our ability to put that knowledge to use is limited.

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  • He educates them on the whole selling process, and how he would market their house, in an effort to impress them with his ability and knowledge.

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  • For instance, if a San Francisco broker-dealer wants an equity sales trader with both a series 7 and series 63 certification (exams that designate a particular knowledge set and the ability to get state registration to solicit debt and equity orders), and a transferable book of business, they can tailor a search for exactly those needs on StreetID.

    FORBES: Beyond LinkedIn: A New Site For Wall Street Jobs

  • As Chris Anderson, the Curator of the TED Conferences, wrote recently: video has the ability to accelerate knowledge.

    FORBES: YouTube Reveals A Curated Future

  • Communication skills, affinity with the population, knowledge of chronic conditions and ability to build relationships are just a few desirable qualifications for program leaders.

    FORBES: Timing Is Everything

  • Those standards must reflect critical thinking skills and the ability to apply knowledge to new and challenging contexts, skills that today's students will need to work in teams and collaborate across companies, communities and continents.

    FORBES: U.S. Rep. George Miller

  • In this, Plowden was heavily influenced by Jean Piaget, a psychologist who argued that children's ability to assimilate knowledge progressed at its own pace and therefore teachers should guide pupils to discover things for themselves.

    ECONOMIST: New skool rules, OK? | The

  • Han Kim and Adair Morse, of the University of Michigan, and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, shows that the internet's ability to spread knowledge beyond university classrooms has diminished the competitive edge that elite schools once held.

    ECONOMIST: Why do economists spend valuable time blogging?

  • In the early 1990s they had devised a way for businesses and other organizations to measure nonfinancial performance--customer perception, for example, or a company's ability to foster knowledge within its work force--and measure talent it wanted to keep or promote.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Secondly, I'm just going to say that I'm happy -- I know there will be many questions and I'm happy to try to the best of my ability and the knowledge that we have right now to answer those questions, understanding that this is an investigation right now being conducted by the Department of Defense and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • What makes this approach relevant is its ability to wrap multiple knowledge bases in a very clever piece of heuristics-based programming.

    FORBES: Watson: Fighting the Last War

  • It tested students on how much they knew about science and their ability to use scientific knowledge to address questions in daily life.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Because every one of them have passed what is called the Knowledge: a test of the ability to memorize and spatially navigate every one of those 25, 000 streets.

    CNN: Make your 'rainy brain' sunnier

  • This knowledge can be applied to improving the ability of antibiotics to target ribosomes of pathogens, helping to combat the problem of resistance.

    UNESCO: The UNESCO Courier

  • "Knowledge about our own bodies and the ability to make decisions about our health care are some of our most personal and fundamental rights, " said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D.

    CNN: ACLU sues over patents on breast cancer genes

  • Perhaps more importantly, I also taught that their mastery of this specialized knowledge is only as valuable as their ability to communicate it to patients coming from different cultures, education level, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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  • Many of the qualities that attracted Sagnier to Chabrol are similar to those that draw her on-screen alter-ego Gabrielle to writer Charles Saint-Denis (Francois Berleand) -- Charles' knowledge of life, literature and his ability to treat her like a little girl, not as an equal.

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  • Unique to the service is the ability to create websites without any knowledge of web programming.

    FORBES: You Had Me At 'Shalom'

  • The second requirement is the ability to take that very fine knowledge of the consumer and determine what media they use.

    FORBES: Advertising Means Nothing If You Don't Have Predictability

  • Super-specialists have two advantages over ordinary specialists: greater knowledge of the details that matter and an ability to handle the complexities of the job.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • The ability to gain the kind of knowledge about the need of that customer base so fast allows us to re-purpose our technology and invest in a way that would have taken much longer without the lab.

    FORBES: New York's FinTech Innovation Lab Links Startups To Big Banks

  • What is in much shorter supply is the ability to get people to act on knowledge.

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  • It will then soar past it because of the continuing acceleration of information-based technologies, as well as the ability of machines to instantly share their knowledge.

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  • Managing older generations at work requires patience, the ability to listen carefully, and the knowledge that you must learn the old ways of doing things before you can apply your new ideas.

    FORBES: The Four Things Young Leaders Must Do to Effectively Lead Older Generations

  • Poets must be well-versed in the Greek Cypriot dialect, possess adequate knowledge of the popular poetry of Cyprus and the ability to retrieve existing, well-known Tsiattista and, above all, must be able to improvise a new couplet on a specific theme within very strict time constraints and be able to respond to his or her opponent.

    UNESCO: Tsiattista poetic duelling

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