"I would like a first-hand understanding on where it is going".
Twelve courses later, we waddled out, with a first-hand understanding of the creativity, skill and tensions behind a great restaurant meal.
Employees in the A.G. offices looked at homeowners' documents and interviewed them face-to-face — giving them a first-hand understanding of how bad things were.
By design, the commission is made up of policymakers with a first-hand understanding of how laws get made and how public policy is brokered.
Michael K. Powell, the F.C.C.'s current chairman, said yesterday that he would travel to New York tomorrow to meet with industry executives, analysts and debt-rating agencies to "gain a first-hand understanding" of recent changes in the telecommunications industry.
Mildred Gordon, who has died aged 92, was raised in the heart of the old East End of London with a first-hand understanding of the impact of poverty on the lives of the underprivileged and the power of politics as an instrument of change.
Pat Donohue, the HR and operations consultant at XenoPsi, the New York City-based advertising agency, says that checking references allows him to both get a "first-hand understanding" of what makes the candidate tick and helps him "focus on the priorities of the position" for which he's hiring.
Second, very few evolutionary biologists have a first-hand understanding of macroevolution, and they do not spend substantial time on it in their college courses.
Balderton, which has invested in Wooga, Natural Motion (recently sold to Zynga) and Big Fish Games (recently sold to Churchill Downs), has a first-hand understanding of the tremendous effort startups must invest to produce a hit app.
"He possesses an extensive knowledge of the domestic and international player market and a first-hand understanding of what is required to develop a positive team environment". Cunningham, 36, has worked with a sports management agency since his retirement from rugby in October 2010 and many of his clients were rugby stars.
Originally from the Southeast side of Chicago, Victoria's experience is deeply tied to the segregation of the city, the lack of resources afforded equitably to residents, and a first-hand understanding of how deindustrialization can impact a previously bustling migrant community.
