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qualified

If you are qualified to do a something, like a job, you meet all the requirements. She was not qualified for the job because they needed someone who spoke two languages, and she only spoke one. He is not qualified to vote, because he is too young. Once he turns 18, he will be qualified to vote in this country. If you are qualified to do something, you know how to do that thing, and you can do it well. Many people wondered if the candidate was qualified to be the President of the country, because he did not seem to know anything about politics or government. I don't think my boss is qualified to run a hospital. He has never been a boss before, he knows nothing about medicine, and he has already made six mistakes that cost the hospital $800,000.

qualified

meeting the proper standards and requirements and training for an office or position or task many qualified applicants for the job limited or restricted; not absolute gave only qualified approval holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill a registered pharmacist a registered hospital (= restricted) restricted in meaning; (as e.g. 'man' in 'a tall man') (= dependent) contingent on something else

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Simple sentences

Do you think I'm qualified for that job?
I am not qualified to perform this kind of work.
Jones is well qualified for the job.
Strictly speaking, she's not qualified for the job.
He is not qualified for the job.
He is no less qualified for the job than she is.
It will take her at least two years to be qualified for that post.
He's no more qualified than her for the job.
Am I qualified?
There is an urgent need for qualified teachers.
I doubt he is qualified enough to manage such a team!
You're not any more qualified to teach the subject than they are.
They said I wasn't qualified for the job.
Tom isn't qualified for the job.
They consider him a highly qualified employee.
It will take him at least two years to be qualified for that post.
He is qualified as an English teacher.
I'm not qualified to do this job.
He was considered very qualified for the job.
You're qualified.
He is considered to be a highly qualified employee.
Our teachers are highly qualified.
We should've hired someone more qualified.

Movie subtitles

You seemed to be well-qualified the other day in the plaza.
The 18 years you've been away should've qualified you to be of benefit to the estate, since in a great many ways we are a backward people, but don't quote me.
I want you to turn the boat over to the man obviously best qualified to run it.
It is a bit thick, a ghost shouldn't be allowed to go haunting until he's properly qualified.
An occupation for which many people feel I'm well qualified by temperament and training.
For what work are you qualified?
You're not qualified to select those people.
She's qualified to go.
You are hardly qualified to judge between justice and injustice.
You're not qualified to get us off this ship.
As a qualified expert, the witness is permitted to express his opinion. as to the result of his investigation.
The Greek is well-qualified, sire.
You feel qualified?
Qualified?
Well, if you're in a position to adequately equip a safari under the direction of a well-qualified man, Captain Fry, for instance.
I'm a qualified good-for-nothing.
You seemed qualified the other day in the plaza.
Your Grace, these men referred to by Capt. Thorpe. were duly tried and sentenced to the galley by a qualified court.
I submit, Your Grace, that the court of the Inquisition. is not qualified to pass fair judgment on English seamen. nor to subject them to the cruelties of a Spanish galley.
On the other hand, there are those better-qualified to express an opinion.
Are you qualified to call the pitch on this?
And they want the supporting opinion of qualified psychologists.
A qualified psychiatrist will testify to that.
Mrs. Patricia Pemberton has just qualified with a sparkling 77.
Even with such qualified approval.
But it's a problem he's eminently qualified to handle, a man of his vast experience with the law, in all its tawdry aspects.
As a qualified expert, the witness is permitted to express his opinion as to the result of his investigation. Exception.
You feel qualified? - Qualified?
Athletes were divided by alphabetical groups,.. and only the top three from each group qualified participate in the final.
As I don't know everyone in my world I don't feel qualified to answer.
Not that I don't think you're qualified.
I don't see any reason why this witness should not be qualified to give evidence.
It's a weakness of his. You're not qualified to judge him, Steve.
And you have heard that Mr. Elster was prepared to take his wife to an institution, where her mental health would have been in the hands of qualified specialists.
Except for him, I'm the only one qualified to dive in it.

News and current affairs

So only a guilty verdict would suffice, but it still had to be qualified with a finding of insanity.
Renaissance of nuclear power will require a big expansion of qualified scientists and engineers.
A decorated World War II veteran, Justice Stevens may well have thought that he was at least as qualified as the civilians in the Bush Justice Department to forecast the impact of the court's ruling on military efficiency.
Some of the most qualified candidates (in both developed and developing countries) have not received the support of their own governments that the political process seems to require.
Other qualified people from emerging markets have been reluctant to put their hats into the ring - it is a brutal job, with a travel schedule that requires physical stamina to match wisdom and experience.
The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.
Shouldn't these international public institutions be looking for the best-qualified person, regardless of race, religion, gender, or nationality?
Of course, opening up the competition for Executive Board portfolios to all member countries does not guarantee the most qualified and politically independent person gets the job; it only increases the probability of such an outcome.
With the qualified exception of the first, all riots were local, relatively minor, and lasted barely a day or two.
There are no places where a shortage of qualified labor or of available capacity is sufficiently great to induce managers to pay more than they have been used to paying for good hands or useful machines.
But, while its work is carried out under the normal qualified majority voting system, the 17 eurozone countries will have a single supervisor, so will have a block vote.
The EU's first response to these fears was to make minimal changes - ie, to the number of commissioners, the weight of votes within the Council of Ministers, and qualified majority voting.
An important step not taken was to end the principle of unanimity that rules decisionmaking in the EU Council of Ministers, and replacing it with a system of qualified-majority voting.
It must receive full sovereignty over EU budget-making and the right to sign-off on all decisions taken by a qualified majority in the Council.
The DPJ government will collide head-on with the mandarins, partly because the party will find it hard to recruit sufficiently qualified policymakers.
But from that date up to 2006 it raced ahead and, on average, employees in financial firms were paid between a third and a half more than similarly qualified counterparts elsewhere.
On vital issues where EU decisions do not require unanimity - notably, the single market - the 19 eurozone countries could forge the qualified majority needed to outvote the nine non-euro members.
Second, the US should lead an international effort to coordinate the resettlement of qualified, security-screened Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
And research assessing a country's human capital now focuses on the quantity and quality of basic skills, qualified graduate manpower, and expertise in research and development.
This is an important advance, but, unfortunately, it is qualified by language that allows voluntary approaches as an alternative, and it focuses only on payments transparency.
Against great odds--and the wording of Guatemala's Constitution--the former brigadier general and dictator has qualified for the ballot in Guatemala's presidential election, set for November 9.
To be sure, financial innovation, like lending to buyers who would not normally have qualified for mortgage loans (sub-prime borrowers) also played a role.
The EU overcame national biases to establish the Single Market by instituting a process of legally binding qualified majority voting, whereby individual member states could be outvoted on specific regulations.

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