qualifying
Speech parts
1. qualifying - Noun
2. qualifying - Verb
Meaning
of Qualify
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. No other profession is as casual or heedless of reality as ours.
Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. He did not belong on the left flank but that's where we needed him most. He had played on the left in the qualifying campaign, and sometimes even at Manchester United.
Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.