Managers had tried to achieve a false level of "perfection," and in the process losing valuable time and a thorough grasp of the big picture.
He is a master musician with a thorough grasp of composition.
Kennedy's homework ritual paid off in a thorough grasp of the issues.
And no understanding of contemporary China can be complete without a thorough grasp of this suppressed community.
Or it could be understood extravagantly as a thorough grasp of reality and man's place therein.
"Deep" rather than "broad" experience of opera might help, together with a thorough grasp of music (a word not used in the brief).
While in Washington, Johnson worked tirelessly on behalf of Kleberg's constituents and quickly developed a thorough grasp of congressional politics.
This makes her the perfect candidate to star in a historical novel, and Dalby, armed with a thorough grasp of the period, has seized the opportunity.
In 1951, the year of King's graduation from Crozer, Dean Charles Batten praised him as "one of our most outstanding students" and someone who exhibited "fine preparation, an excellent mind, and a thorough grasp of the material" (Papers 1 390 391).
The book under review is the work of an accomplished scholar, reflecting a thorough grasp of theories of language contact, of Mayan language scholarship, and of the linguistic character of the Lowland Mayan languages, and geographically affected non-Lowland languages.
The populists were guided by a sophisticated network of big thinkers, organizers, and communicators who had a thorough grasp of exactly how the system worked and why.
