I was certified to take x-rays, but you can't just show up and start cleaning people's teeth.
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.
I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it.
I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.
For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
People are just waiting around to get certified
I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.