To race successfully, paddlers must possess refined technical skill, as well as strength, endurance, aerobic capacity, and the ability to "read" whitewater.

Blackjack players who use basic strategy do better; as do video poker players with refined skills.

Web design and development can be as easy as using a template to build a web site or it can be a refined skill for professionals.

Many of the new workers did not have the same refined skills as the journeymen they replaced.

The most refined skills, in that robust view, are not in the Royal Albert Hall but at the end of the pier.

He had hoped to stick with the Rangers this season, but the rigors of being an N.H.L. defenseman require more refined skills and strength.

Presumably the oldest elf due to his refined magical skills.

Secondly, these types of exchanges allow for participants and others to grow and to develop new or refined skills.

Voicing is a refined skill, carried out fluently by professional builders, but one that usually must also be learned (at least to some degree) by harpsichord owners.

"What's driving the change is a combination of the more refined skill of new instrument makers and the increasing sophistication of the customer."