Sentence examples for acquire a working from inspiring English sources

Through lectures, readings, precepts, and studio sessions, students will acquire a working knowledge of key texts, buildings, and architectural concepts.

In March Kuchma suggested that the president should have the power to dissolve the parliament should it fail to acquire a working majority.

Along the way she acquired a working knowledge of English, German and French.

So far, despite all the cars that came through Sancha, nobody from the upper village had acquired a working automobile.

Leonardo did not seriously study Latin, the key language of traditional learning, until much later, when he acquired a working knowledge of it on his own.

During his year in Japan, he had encountered classic Japanese painting and sculpture for the first time, met leading scholars such as Nagatake Asano, and rapidly acquired a working knowledge of the language (as well as a love of its infuriatingly complex writing system).

I found that my broad training in earth science was very helpful in acquiring a working knowledge of new fields expeditiously.

Paul introduced Bobby to the process of "record production," having acquired a working knowledge from his father, Lou Simon, a bass player, who did a good deal of studio work.

If every loving parent and grandparent in the nation took a real interest in, acquired a working knowledge of, and made purchases in accord with what's in our food -- the food supply would get better in a big hurry.

I can't speak for kids these days, but you couldn't have lived in 20th century America and not acquired a working knowledge of these characters, whether or not you'd ever been to the circus.

Under his boss's stern gaze and imperious tutelage he starts to acquire a work ethic and a sense of discipline.