Sentence examples for Inadequate grasp of from inspiring English sources

The column, headlined "A whole year of hell, thanks to a foreign doctor", suggested that Serrano was seriously incompetent and had an "inadequate grasp of the English language", according to a claim form filed at the high court in London.

Yet the current discussions about combating Isis remind me of the astonishment I felt during meetings with the planned US authority in Iraq under Jay Garner when it became clear that his staff had a hopelessly inadequate grasp of what lay ahead.

In a 2011 paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School and Peter Tufano of Said Business School also argue that in a typical "S-curve" pattern, in which the earliest adopters of an innovation are the most knowledgeable, a widely adopted product is more likely to have lots of users with an inadequate grasp of the product's risks.

(This process formed one of the major themes of Bauer's Christianity Revealed, along with a critique of French materialism for its inadequate grasp of freedom).

The belief that some thing is accidental or spontaneous can be based only on an inadequate grasp of the thing's causal explanation, on a partial and "mutilated" familiarity with it.

The appeal to Kant and Madison is meant to vindicate the power and dignity of opinion against those thinkers, from Plato to Hobbes, who saw it as mere illusion, as a confused or inadequate grasp of the truth.

Poor grasp of English language?

Mr. Hanjour, who investigators contend piloted the airliner that crashed into the Pentagon, was reported to the aviation agency in February 2001 after instructors at his flight school in Phoenix had found his piloting skills so shoddy and his grasp of English so inadequate that they questioned whether his pilot's license was genuine.

So we should not make too much of Marcus' diffidence about his mastery of physics (vii.67), for he may only mean that his own technical grasp of Stoic physics is inadequate, rather than that he lacks confidence in its superiority over Epicurean physics.

As directed by Trip Cullman ("Hero") and Lila Neugebauer ("Waverly"), these productions did full justice to their author's grasp of moral complexity and the inadequate, lonely languages with which we try to communicate.

There is a common misconception among writers that white men are only capable of writing novels filled with white men, and if they include black men in their stories, their grasp of African American culture is inadequate to accurately bring these characters to life.