Sentence examples for a firsthand knowledge from inspiring English sources

His works, which have been called both prose poems and novels, displayed a firsthand knowledge of Canadian logging and pioneering e.g., Menaud, maître-draveur (1937; The Boss of the River), L'Abatis (1943; "The Slaughter"), and La Minuit (1948; "Midnight").

Mr. Kundera writes with a firsthand knowledge of émigré life -- he left Czechoslovakia in 1975 and has lived in France for more than 20 years -- and he does a wonderfully nuanced job of delineating the anomalous feelings that Irena and Josef experience on returning home after so many years.

Educated at the National College of San Juan, Alegría acquired a firsthand knowledge of Indian life in his native province of Huamachuco; this first appeared in his novel La serpiente de oro (1935; The Golden Serpent), which portrays the diverse human life to be found along the Marañón River in Peru.

Svoboda's surprising show of strength in the Oct. 29 election — polls had predicted that the party would fail to meet the 5 percent threshold to enter Parliament — has stirred alarm, including warnings from Israel about the rise of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic and a place with a firsthand knowledge of ethnic violence and genocide.

ROME, July 30 - A suspect in the failed July 21 bombings arrested in Rome on Friday confessed to investigators to carrying a bomb through London's subway, but claimed it was meant as a "demonstration" rather than as a means of killing, a person with firsthand knowledge of the interrogation said on Saturday.

He also gracefully interjected his own comments, drawing from a wealth of firsthand knowledge.

"There's a lot of firsthand knowledge here," he said, pointing out several former track hands.

A person with firsthand knowledge of the "Today" set said: "She's nervous around Matt.

In Super Bowl XXXVIII, however, a lack of firsthand knowledge, especially early on, bred confusion and restraint.

The seasoned five-piece band is adeptly led at the piano by Frank Owens, a veteran with firsthand knowledge of the period.

Roads were paved and government jobs — by the estimate of a doctor with firsthand knowledge — were provided to thousands of youths.