According to the American Bar Association, a lawyer that is a certified specialist has been recognized by an independent professional certifying organization as having an enhanced level of skill and expertise, as well as substantial involvement in an established legal specialty.

According to Gerald Donaldson, " some thought title owed more to stealth than skill, an opinion at least partly based on Brabham's low-key presence.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

According to museum professionals Hugh H. Genoways and Lynne M. Ireland, “ Administration of the organization requires skill in conflict management, interpersonal relations, budget management and monitoring, and staff supervision and evaluation.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both Sauron and Saruman to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palantíri " lie ", or create false images ( though he could show selective images to create a false impression in the viewer ).

According to historian Winters, " Welles's opinion of the military abilities of both men was very low, but he did not question Butler's skill as a ' police magistrate ' in charge of civil affairs.

According to Malebranche, " an infinite series of plants and animals were contained within the seed or the egg, but only naturalists with sufficient skill and experience could detect their presence.

According to Andrew Marriott of the classic journal Motor Sport who was covering the race as a young reporter " Deaths in the sport were a regular occurrence in those days, but surely someone of Clark's sublime talent and skill?

According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab ( great eloquence or skill at flattery ).

According to his own confession, Gregory had no practical skill and he could find no optician capable of actually constructing one.

According to Melton, there are eight hours of physical work – such as painting, plumbing, and upkeep of grounds – six days a week ; the work may involve teaching the member a skill such as carpentry.

According to Giraldus, nothing that he had ever seen was at all comparable to the book, every page of which was gorgeously illuminated, and he concludes by saying that the interlaced work and the harmony of the colours left the impression that " all this is the work of angelic, and not human skill ".

According to, score reading is an important skill for those interested in the conducting profession and " Conductors such as the late Robert Shaw and Yoel Levi have incredibly strong piano skills and can read at sight full orchestral scores at the piano.

According to Stevenson, Carlson's wife, Dorris, had some skill at extrasensory perception, and convinced Carlson to help support Stevenson's research.

According to The University of Glasgow Gould ’ s skill was in rapidly producing rough sketches from nature ( a majority of the sketches were drawn of newly killed specimens ) capturing the distinctiveness of each species.

According to Canucks assistant coach Jack McIlhargey, Bertuzzi's skill set favourably complemented Näslund's goal-scoring and Morrison's playmaking abilities.

According to Calcutta review, the epic is modern in tone and treatment and displays a greater facility of expression, a more delicate ear for music, a greater skill for grouping in imagery.

According to Karl May's story, first-person narrator Old Shatterhand encounters Winnetou and after initial dramatic events, a true friendship between Old Shatterhand and the Apache Winnetou arises ; on many occasions they give proof of great fighting skill but also of compassion for other human beings.

According to Cree oral history, Pitikwahanapiwiyin, known to English speakers as Chief Poundmaker, inherited his name from his grandfather who had a special ability to attract buffalo into pounds ; however, another source states that the name was awarded to him because of his own skill with the use of these pounds ( and does not relate to his ancestry ).

According to Australian rock music historian, Ian McFarlane, Post is a stark, personal collection of acoustic songs that highlight Kelly's broadly based song writing skill.

According to later commentators, Hatfield's successes were mainly due to his meteorological skill and sense of timing, selecting periods where there was a high probability of rain anyway.

According to Vicenzo Perna, author of Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis, timba needs to be spoken of because of its musical, cultural, social, and political reasons ; its sheer popularity in Cuba, its novelty and originality as a musical style, the skill of its practitioners, its relationship with both local traditions and the culture of the black Diaspora, its meanings, and the way its style brings to light the tension points within society.

According to the leading theory of high-level skill acquisition, the critical ingredient is extensive " deliberate practice " ( Ericsson ).

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to Unilever, " in blind taste tests, 10 % didn't notice any difference in taste, 40 % preferred the original and 50 % preferred the new product.

According to Iranian author Nabipour I., in medieval Persia, Avicenna ( 980-1037 ) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine ( c. 1025 ), " describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

According to Schapiro, " the Anglo-Saxon taste for the Hell Mouth was perhaps influenced by the northern pagan myth of the Crack of Doom and the battle with the wolf, who devoured Odin.

According to some scholars these five elements or pancha mahabhutas were identified with the various human senses of perception ; earth with smell, air with feeling, fire with vision, water with taste and ether with sound.

Some, including Sheldon Glashow, speculate that Witten chose the letter because it resembles an inverted W. According to Witten, " M can stand variously for ' magic ', ' mystery ', or ' matrix ', according to one's taste.

According to Simon Frith pop music is produced " as a matter of enterprise not art ", is " designed to appeal to everyone " and " doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste ".

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

According to him, " The ' remedy which loosens the tongue ' has no taste, no smell, no colour, and no immediate side effects.

According to general semantics, language, natural or otherwise ( including the language called ' mathematics ') can be used to describe the taste of an orange, but one cannot give the taste of the orange using language alone.

According to Brooks, after the film was completed, Embassy executives refused to release it as being in " bad taste "; however, Peter Sellers saw the film privately and placed an advertisement in Variety in support of the film's wider release.

According to critic Otto Penzler, " As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled.

According to Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic: " was at once one of the most beloved and controversial singers of the mid-20th century-beloved to her fans, devotees, and fellow singers ; controversial to critics who still accuse her of selling out her art to commerce and bad taste.

According to the ancient Greek gastronomer Athenaeus of Naukratis, the leaves of the species can be peeled and eaten raw, but because of their bitter taste, they are better kept in brine.

According to a tradition originating with anti-Stuart historians of the mid-seventeenth-century, James's taste for political absolutism, his financial irresponsibility, and his cultivation of unpopular favourites established the foundations of the English Civil War.

According to the liner notes on the soundtrack album, Williams ' " sense of the dramatic, coupled with his exquisite musical taste and knowledge of the orchestra definitely stamp this score as truly one of his best.

According to Bede's explanation, this happened because Mellitus refused the brothers ' request for a taste of the sacramental bread.

According to Christopher Witcombe, " the ironic identification of these figurines as ' Venus ' pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women, and about taste ".

According to Sarah J. Gim of The Huffington Post, " many people assume that " the " Special sauce " used on a McDonald's Big Mac " is just Thousand Island dressing " but it is thicker, sweeter, and has a slightly different taste.

According to proponents of the hypothesis, repressed memories may sometimes be recovered years or decades after the event, most often spontaneously, triggered by a particular smell, taste, or other identifier related to the lost memory, or via suggestion during psychotherapy.

According to Lindemann, both salt and sour taste mechanisms detect, in different ways, the presence of sodium chloride in the mouth.

According to the taste and purse of the owner, chop shops would build high handle bars, or later Ed Roth's Wild Child designed stretched, narrowed, and raked front forks.