attainment


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Synonyms for attainment

something completed or attained successfully

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Synonyms for attainment

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This is why the attainment of proficiency, the pushing of your skill with attention to the most delicate shades of excellence, is a matter of vital concern.
The boy was in the lead, excitement and anticipation carrying him ahead of his companion to whom the attainment of their goal meant only sorrow.
Her accomplishments, even where a master had been employed in their attainment, were naturally displayed, and suited to her powers.
Though he could not help seeing how small his attainments were beside the American's, his British pertinacity, his wounded vanity (perhaps they are the same thing), would not allow him to give up the struggle.
He was heard to speak of Sir Kenelm Digby and other famous men -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural -- as having been his correspondents or associates.
Two or three individuals hinted that the man of skill, during his Indian captivity, had enlarged his medical attainments by joining in the incantations of the savage priests, who were universally acknowledged to be powerful enchanters, often performing seemingly miraculous cures by their skill in the black art.
To deride all the refined attainments of human skill denotes ignorance of the means of human happiness, nor is it any evidence of acquaintance with the intricate machinery of social greatness and a lofty civilization.
He seemed to me to be the one young man in all the world who ought to be satisfied with his attainments.
I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights or privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that they were members of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments. I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will not finally hold an individual back if he possesses intrinsic, individual merit.
Mary's is a clergyman, a college friend of her brother's, and, from his attainments and principles, worthy of the connection.
M2 PRESSWIRE-August 30, 2019-: increase in attainment across Southampton
WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Educational attainment is positively associated with reduced smoking rates, depression, triglycerides, and heart disease, according to a study published online June 25 in PLOS Medicine.
The Scottish Government is to invest PS50 million in additional funding in a bid to help close the poverty-related attainment gap in Paisley and across Scotland.
He draws on research from the UK, European Union, US, Pakistan, and Japan and focuses on differences in attainment in terms of various social groups, genders, types of schools, regions, and countries.
Higham Lane School has beennamed the tenth best school in area the for Attainment 8 scores in latest government data.