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qualify English

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qualify

If you qualify for something, you have what is needed to be allowed to get or do it. Children must be under the age of six in order to qualify for a free meal. The government needs to help people who don't qualify for health insurance. If mathx/math qualifies mathy/math for mathz/math, mathx/math is needed to be allowed to get or do mathz/math and mathy/math has mathx/math. Describe the education, training, and experience that qualify you for the job. If mathx/math qualifies as mathy/math, it has what is needed to be considered mathy/math. Today's game certainly qualifies as one of the best in history. If you qualify an idea, you add something to explain that the idea isn't always true. This is America and competition is our way of life. Having said this, I would like to qualify the statement and suggest that we need to work together too. If a word or phrase qualifies another word or phrase, it limits or adds to the meaning of it.

qualify

prove capable or fit; meet requirements pronounce fit or able She was qualified to run the marathon They nurses were qualified to administer the injections make more specific qualify these remarks make fit or prepared Your education qualifies you for this job (= characterize, characterise) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover (= stipulate, condition, specify) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life The contract stipulates the dates of the payments (= modify) add a modifier to a constituent

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Simple sentences

This house doesn't qualify for renovation.
How early do I have to make a reservation to qualify for the discount?
In order to qualify for the homestay you must have an interview with the sponsors.
Does my training qualify me to teach?
In French, adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they qualify.
Turkey did not qualify in this year's World Cup.
This house doesn't qualify for reconstruction.

Movie subtitles

I think you'll qualify.
Increase the number of young men of military age and add those subjects which will qualify them for immediate enlistment in His Majesty's navy.
You qualify. What do you figure?
I don't qualify for the job any more.
Frankly, you do not qualify, Captain.
You certainly qualify.
I no longer qualify for the state of grace.
Now, all I have to do to qualify myself is to say that I drank too much too often over too long a period of time.
You just might qualify.
To the best of my knowledge, doctorates are not awarded for witchcraft, but in the event they are, no doubt I shall qualify for one.
I was in line to be chosen for the space program. but I didn't qualify.
I thought jails were built for humanity, and that won't quite qualify.
This man won't even qualify.
How could the mayor allow himself to fool us by having his own daughter sleep with an unknown man in order to qualify for the count's fortune?
I won't qualify that relationship now. It's wrong. Shockingly wrong.
With the result that you're educated beyond your sphere and yet failed to qualify for the upper classes.
Norma, you'd be throwing it away. I don't qualify for the job, not anymore.
We'll get out there, you qualify, you play and you win.
How does one qualify for admission?
But you want to send her to college. How do we know she'll qualify?
Qualify.
Better watch out, you'll qualify for a Section 8.
I reckon they will qualify!
You can qualify for a farm loan!
There's a codicil in your grandfather's will which stipulates that in order to qualify for the inheritance, your marriage must be sound and effective.
I failed to qualify you.
I was in line to be chosen for the space program but I didn't qualify.
I shall have to qualify as a superintendent!
But that thing out there apparently can perform all the functions that qualify it as a living organism.
No, it wouldn't qualify you for best weatherman.
He won't even qualify.
I really don't think you qualify.
He doesn't quite qualify as a head of a sisterhood.
Wonder if I have to have a job to qualify.
Then qualify.
But I intend to control and qualify that communication.
Good conduct is essential in order to qualify for transfer from penitentiary ward to the prison ward.

News and current affairs

Should, for instance, the early stages of Alzheimer's disease qualify?
The Czech experience shows that implementing all of the European Union's norms so as to be ready to qualify for membership takes some time.
A central question, of course, concerns the type of government spending that should qualify as investment spending, and which European investment projects should be supported.
In 1988, just months before the election, Raymond Barre (a former Prime Minister) was the arch-favorite, but did not even qualify for the second-round run-off.
It may be argued that the Holocaust was a crime so uniquely abhorrent as to qualify as a special case.
LONDON - Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man.
By the time they qualify for pensions and the license to grumble, the century will be into its seventh or eighth decade.
The International Monetary Fund, for its part, has created a new liquidity facility, enabling countries that pre-qualify to apply and get funds with little or no conditionality.
Thus, the EMF would provide a framework for sovereign bankruptcy comparable to the procedures that exist in the US for bankrupt companies that qualify for restructuring.
This year, India's hockey players failed even to qualify for the Games.
In order to qualify for the CCL, countries will have the incentive to take proactive steps to eliminate the weaknesses that could leave them vulnerable.
If Iran fails to qualify, this could turn some young voters against the incumbent.
The public would pay higher taxes because either they or their children might qualify for a course of study that would improve their job prospects, or because researchers' discoveries might improve the quality of life.
If it were not so profoundly sad, it would qualify as the sick joke of the millennium: Libya has been elected to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights!
While each of these shocks may not qualify as the proverbial tipping point, the combination and the context are disconcerting, to say the least.
And, in the run-up to the G-20 summit in London, it thoroughly overhauled its lending policies, de-emphasizing traditional conditionality and making it easier for countries to qualify for loans.
Basically, there are two situations that should qualify.
But it is all too easy to forget that the development of this market was initially welcomed, because it enabled even people who would not normally qualify for a mortgage loan to aspire to homeownership.
Given the dire conditions in the countries from which they are fleeing, perhaps half of the asylum-seekers will qualify for residency under even the strictest rules.
Many blame the country's failure to qualify for this summer's European championship on the preponderance of foreign players in English club teams.

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