Qualifying

My sister has difficulty qualifying for a credit card.

Only the assumption that the reader - I better say: the prospective reader, because for the moment there is not the slightest prospect, that my writing could see the lights of publicity, - unless it miraculously left our endangered fortress Europe and brought a hint of the secrets of our loneliness to those outside; - I beg to be allowed to begin anew: only because I anticipate the wish to be told casually about the who and what of the writer, I send some few notes on my own individuum out before these openings, - of course not without the awareness that exactly by doing so I might provoke doubts in the reader, that he is in the right hands, which is to say: if I, from all my being, am the right man for a task to which maybe the heart pulls me more than any qualifying relation in character.

The Super Eagles lead their qualifying group with four points from two matches, and are the favourites to advance to the finals in Tunisia.

"Your team told me you were ready to retire. Was it to retire from qualifying or from tennis in general?" "No, no, I know it's been a tough season for me, but I'm not that dramatic!"

No expostulations! No buts, girl! No qualifyings, I will be obeyed, I tell you; and chearfully too!

Despite possible lore among graduate students to the contrary, most faculty members dread having to fail a student in the qualifyings.