But it was also during this period that Hollywood and the American film industry became much more skilled and influential.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

You never seen a frog so honest and simple as he was, for all he was so skilled.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Differences between budgets, equipment and the availability of skilled workers have created uneven quality from lab to lab.

VOA: special.2009.10.03

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

He says the Navy has to choose submariners from the widest possible group of skilled service members.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Adding to the problem, poachers today are more skilled at killing rhinos, and not only with guns.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Pay was poor in Britain, and these skilled workers could get much more money in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

These books re-established Fitzgerald's fame as both an observer of his times and a skilled artist.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

Mary said it was while teaching at Buckland that she first thought of founding a private school open to daughters of farmers and skilled workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Some of these early immigrants were skilled workers who found good jobs in American industry.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Factories needed skilled workers -- men who knew how to do all the necessary jobs.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Dating back to colonial times, the government has supported programs to train skilled workers.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

But she observed that they were also meat eaters and skilled hunters.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

He also was skilled at using his violin to make people laugh.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

She was a goddess,a queen, and a skilled diplomat and negotiator.

VOA: special.2011.02.16

The producer was the highly skilled T Bone Burnett.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But she was skilled in many styles.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

Nicholas Benson is a skilled stone carver.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

Patients transferred from the ICU to skilled nursing facilities, and who needed a ventilator to breathe,faced the highest risk.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

The president told her that not all of these jobs will return, especially low-skilled,low-paying jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

For example,in most sub-Saharan African countries, the U.N.Children's Fund says more than half the deliveries take place at home, with no skilled birth attendant present.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

"One of the strategies to address maternal mortality is to increase skilled birth attendants."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Skilled birthing attendants are present at 25 to 30 percent of births in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Almost half of the women living in 68 countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia give birth without a midwife, doctor or a skilled birth attendant.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

"So we've got to go after the high-skilled, high-wage jobs of the future,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

(SAYING) She says her products can be more advanced now that she is skilled, and when people come to visit it can lift the craft up more.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14