Of course, mental exercises must be honed to develop particular skills and behaviors mindfulness practice alone is not adequate to improve, say, socio cognitive skills. And lasting changes occur only after a prolonged period of regular training.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy.

Like the ancient Greeks Hydra, Georgia s political elite never ceases to die and be reborn. The same people and governing methods that the Rose Revolution of November 2003 sought to defeat have reemerged at the center of power by using their personal networks, which extend outside Georgia s borders, as well as their tremendous wealth and finely honed skills at political scheming and manipulation.

required military skills and their application in peacekeeping

This MoU also provided technical training to enhance the range of skills, including their marketing and business promotion skills.

At the end of a semester they integrated their skills.

Across sub Saharan Africa, engineers from India armed with appropriate technologies honed in their home market are also making their mark. India supplies Africa with computer education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low cost rice milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.

The overseas Chinese showed their special skills in the social gathering.

Students can traverse this material in different ways, depending on their background, their skills or their interests.

They are all people who learned their hacking skills in their early to mid teens.

We have to find the people with the skills, but without the opportunities and give them the opportunities to use their skills for good.

This subject covers the development of certain skills in adolescents that will help them make their way in society, otherwise known as life skills'.

(b) Promotion of the professionalization of their traditional skills, arts and crafts

They've got incredible people skills, negotiating skills.

And it turns out the skills of happiness, the skills of the pleasant life, the skills of engagement, the skills of meaning, are different from the skills of relieving misery.

80 indigenous men sharing their expertise, skills and knowledge, and forming networks to enhance their community work

In this dramatically expanded ideal of a liberal arts education where the continuum of thought and action is its life's blood, knowledge honed outside the academy becomes essential.

So they eventually started matching their talents and skills to all of my needs.

As usual the Spanish team are showing off their skills at one touch football.

They must incorporate these factors into their educational outlook and know how to increase their skills in this area.

Papuans rarely have the capital or the necessary skills to run their own businesses competitively.

Remember that, when they developed those hacking skills, their moral compass had not yet developed.

Regional bureaux should strengthen their gender expertise by recruiting regional experts and upgrading staff skills.

And Homo sapiens are one small leaf on a very extensive Tree of Life, which is densely populated by organisms that have been honed for survival over millions of years.

Secondly you need skills, the mundane skills of the construction sector.

Life skills.

Skills required

The children forgot or never learned their own languages and customs, or their linguistic skills in their own languages stayed at a very low level.

(ii) Actively encourage staff of the United Nations system to volunteer, utilizing their special skills and experiences.

They're part of the rice cycle and these skills will be valuable for them in their future.

(c) The managerial competencies for supervisory staff so as to provide an assessment of their supervisory skills

Proven drafting skills

Career Focus offers post secondary graduates a range of work experience and skill building opportunities to broaden their skills and enhance their employability.

The members of the Unit should be provided with the training necessary to sharpen their skills and enhance the quality of their work.

Therefore more and more, language skills are becoming imperative in order to prepare young people for their future careers.

Lead reviewers may be offered additional training to that referred to in paragraph 24 above to enhance their skills.

Support for 84 indigenous women leaders to increase their leadership skills, confidence and level of involvement in community development

They want these skills.

Closing the Skills Gap

Professional expertise and skills

At the same time, the Prime Minister and others stressed the skills gap at all levels that was handicapping their ability to implement their vision.

These skills are the skills we should be teaching in the classroom as well as everything else.

There are no special State programmes for teaching business, marketing, legal skills, agrarian skills, etc., to women.

The outcome of this new direction is to focus the skills of medical professionals on their areas of a response and to use the operational skills of others to implement the mitigative, operational, financial and logistics of responses.

Building on the base of existing skills of information professionals, library staff will need to upgrade their skills in the areas of writing for electronic publishing, making presentations, interviewing, facilitation and public relations in order to better explain their work and to participate more effectively in the networked world.