Her gambling, cheating, and competitive skills are unrivaled except by Spike.

Her result was considered exceptional considering the strength of the tournament, average 2701, and she was praised for her tactical skills in her game against Ivanchuk.

Her secretary, William Maitland of Lethington, defected to the Protestant side, bringing his administrative skills.

Her talent brought her to the attention of administrators who selected her to join a drama club in Beijing where she gained more acting skills.

Her nursing skills were called upon at the end of June 1918 when she gave an injection of morphine to Dr. Eugene Botkin to ease his kidney pain.

Her ability to endure his long, repetitive sittings helped Whistler develop his portrait skills.

Her skills were necessary for surveying the land after the annual floods to reestablish boundary lines.

Her insight into the minds of cattle has taught her to value the changes in details to which animals are particularly sensitive, and to use her visualization skills to design thoughtful and humane animal-handling equipment.

Her analytical skills and facility with probability also extend to combat situations, allowing her to predict an opponent's attacks and initiate the optimal counter-attack.

Her computer-like mind makes it easy for her to learn new skills.

Her tap dancing skills led to an opportunity to study with one of the best-known tap dancers in the country, Savion Glover of the Dance Theater of Harlem, when he came to Washington D. C. for a workshop.

Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie ’ s bedroom window.

Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s.

Her focus on this and image come at the expense of domestic skills or common knowledge, of which she was constantly mocked for having little of.

Her skills in hand-to-hand combat advanced to the point where Phoebe has been capable of beating multiple adversaries, most notably demonic wrestlers, Furies and vampires.

Her skills in hand-to-hand combat advanced to the point where Prue has been capable of besting multiple adversaries, most notably demonic wrestlers, the demon Vinceres and vampire-like demons known as Seekers.

Her proposals for a Birmingham Baccalaureate, designed to give local youngsters the skills and abilities that city businesses are seeking, is central to this new approach.

Her exuberance, humour and presenting skills landed her a presenting job on The Big Breakfast where she forged a successful partnership with Johnny Vaughan.

Her success was due to her skills with both people and her technique.

Her skills in singing are very interesting and it is good to further her works in the future.

Her computer skills have all been self-taught.

Her culinary skills are legendary on the street ; she is rarely seen out of the kitchen.

Her mathematical aptitude and navigational skills are excellent, but her poor performance in mathematics courses was the source of much irritation, and more than a few problems, while at the Academy.

Her skills in the Power can be counted as average: her Healing skill is no more than normal, and her skill with Earth is quite feeble ; she has, however, discovered a weak form of Compulsion, similar to the form Liandrin of the Black Ajah uses.

Her first husband, a Navy pilot, died when his plane crashed while landing at Glenview Naval Air Station.

Her scenes are mostly what happened in times other than shown in the pilot episode " Encounter at Farpoint "; the story diverges from the " normal " time-frame as events in the finale occur.

Her rapid weight loss, done to modify her appearance by the time the pilot episode was filmed, caused serious kidney failure.

Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop television dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984.

Her compositions are also included in a children's textbook, World of Music, and The Box, a pilot TV show from Robert De Niro's Tribeca Production Company.

Ian Fleming referenced the " Big Lie " in his James Bond book On Her Majesty's Secret Service when he had the pilot of a helicopter, who had flown it through French airspace illegally, respond to the flight controller's question as to who authorized the flight that he ( the flight controller himself ) had authorized it.

Her rapid weight loss ( 30 pounds in 2 weeks ) in order to complete the pilot episode caused serious kidney failure.

Her performances on television during this time included the television movie Malibu in 1983 and the pilot episode of The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1985.

Her husband, Peter Peel, was a pilot whose plane disappeared over the Amazonian forest.

Her father was a Navy pilot who completed two tours of duty in the Vietnam War, and her mother worked as a real estate agent.

Her fiancé is murdered in the pilot episode, and she learns SD-6 is actually a branch of an international criminal organization known as the Alliance of Twelve.

Her father, a United States Navy pilot, was transferred from military base to military base during her childhood and adolescence ; for part of her childhood, she lived in Japan, where her father was stationed.

Her career continued to suffer when her 2007 series Viva Laughlin was canceled after two episodes, and her 2012 television pilot This American Housewife ( produced by Banderas ) was not picked up by Lifetime.

Her first acting job was in a comedy pilot for NBC's The Grady Nutt Show.

Her sister, Toni, is a pilot for Continental Airlines.

Her mother was Hope Noyes ( the former Mrs. James Mulford Townsend Jr .), an amateur pilot who died in January 1942 at age 25 when the plane she was flying solo crashed.

Her first husband died in action after D-Day ; and she subsequently married a pilot who had been badly wounded, John Balawaider, in 1946, whom she nursed throughout her life.

Her brother, Benedict Taylor, played fighter pilot Bravo 2 in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Her last name resembles the American pilot woman Amelia Earhart.

Her final appearance in an acting part was that of an Indian ambassador in the 1993 pilot episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Her best-known came in 1971 as " Grandma Esther Walton " on the made-for-TV film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, which served as the pilot for The Waltons.

Her flight was short and possibly unintentional but Scott is credited by the Early Birds of Aviation as the first woman to pilot and solo in an airplane in the United States, although Bessica Medlar Raiche's flight on September 16 was accredited as first by the Aeronautical Society of America at the time.

Her character, Kelly O ' Brien, an Army pilot and soldier returning home after being deployed overseas, arrives in Gunnison, Colorado the day before the Aliens and Predator invade the town.

Her father, Gary Waldman, received an invitation by Phil Gray, a friend and hot air balloon pilot, to take a ride in a hot air balloon in 1986.