For a start, he did not yet speak fluent English when he took the job.
He was well educated, speaks fluent English and describes himself as a moderate Muslim.
Certainly, at the high end of the market, China cannot equal India's supply of technical wizards with fluent English.
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In addition to his genetics wizardry, he says his near-fluent English is self-taught.
As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.
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His message to the fluent English-speaking Li Ruigang was to the point.
The Harvard-educated former diplomat, who speaks fluent English and Chinese, is lauded for his grasp of policy and willingness to speak his mind.
And Mr Buckles admitted: "I can't say categorically that all the guards recruited by G4S for the Olympics are able to speak fluent English".
Along the way, she has had her teeth straightened and now lacks only fluent English to be a Hollywood star in her own right.
"I am very sorry that you traveled all this way, but you have to leave, " their hooded leader explained politely, yet firmly, in fluent English.
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He spoke fluent English, and commanded slavish devotion from his agents.
Within a couple of months, he daydreamed aloud in accented but fluent English, he would unveil the first Russian Formula One team, in Moscow's Red Square.
The fluent English-speaker has spent the last eight years helping British and American troops speak to their Afghan allies, risking his life on patrol in Helmand, and working side by side with British soldiers.
My friend was bothered most by the fact that although both the cop and the other driver spoke fluent English, they carried on the conversation in Spanish, evidently to prevent his being privy to it.
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In particular, Kuroda is a fluent English speaker and, after eight years at the helm of the Manila-based ADB, may be seen as a more effective ambassador for policies that have already caused friction among Japan's trading partners.
Increasing efforts to make all Britons fluent in English is surely a good idea.
I'm not white inside, I'm not really fluent in English, I have black kids.
The candidates should be fluent in English, a good knowledge of either Russian or Uzbek would be an asset.
Fluent in English, though little known inside the Clinton camp, he likes Americans.
Some of the dining room staff are not fluent in English, but their solicitous attitude is more than sufficient compensation.
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This will require some 25, 000 troops drawn from neutral nations, as well as perhaps 1, 000 Cambodian translators fluent in English or French.
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There would be intensive immersion programs for children not fluent in English.
Deng's itinerant upbringing means he is fluent in English, Arabic, and Dinka.
She has a BA in Communication Studies and minor in International Studies from Virginia Tech and is fluent in English, Dari and Farsi.
By the time she left Japan four years later he was fluent in English and was picking up French and German as well.
His biography spanned Canada's divides: he was born in Montreal, was equally fluent in English and French, and forged his political career in Toronto.
And as a brilliant linguist, fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and obviously his native Portuguese, he crossed all barriers with United's cosmopolitan set-up.
In contrast, younger men without a degree receive a 13% wage premium for being fluent in English, compared to 40% for younger men with a degree.
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