Although he wrote many lines for the guitar, Mercury possessed only rudimentary skills on the instrument.

Some are immigrants, but many more are students who left school without learning the rudimentary skills.

Rochester school officials said Timothy is incapable of learning even rudimentary skills.

However once rudimentary cognitive skills are required it actually leads to poorer performance.

What has surprised our engineers, however, is the way this was done with the most rudimentary and truly primitive mechanical skills.

John Williams was the only colonist with any form of rudimentary medical skill.

Something like this was far beyond her rudimentary skills.

But the truth is that 99.9 percent of the people you're protecting against have only rudimentary skills.

It's essentially democratic in another way: almost anybody with rudimentary musical skills can step up and try it.

A sympathetic doctor with rudimentary English skills helped him through the ordeal.