While Republicans also called for more cooperation, they suggested that Democrats might not have fully absorbed the lessons of their drubbing.
Young intellectual historians, scholars at the conference were quick to emphasize, have fully absorbed the lessons of the profession's increased attention to questions of race, class and gender, without losing hold of the premise that ideas matter, even in a culture that still considers "intellectual" a term of abuse.
Opponents said that Shell and the Obama administration had not fully absorbed the lessons of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 rig workers and spilled millions of gallons of crude into the gulf.
Yams' memory permeates the record, even if Rocky doesn't seem to have fully absorbed the lessons of his friend's demise.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had fully absorbed the new vocabulary lesson by the city's second swine flu death on Sunday, that of a woman in her 50s.
But fully absorbing the lessons of the past should mean being able to think clearly about going forward: Find partners, internationally and locally, and don't get out in front of them.
For the lesson to really stick, you want to be able to have it approached from a variety of viewpoints and in a variety of ways and over time, so that those lessons are fully absorbed by the entire campus community".
Make sure you let it sit on your lips for a while to get fully absorbed.
Ms. Katz also absorbed lessons from her Hungarian-born father, Isidore, a survivor of the Holocaust and Nazi camps.
Born in Hungary to Holocaust survivors, she became a successful doctor and researcher, fully absorbed in her own work.
The key is that we are fully absorbed in a way that expands our boundaries.
