Only 0.2 percent of these Russians claimed mastery of the local tongue in 1989.
From an early point, Mr. Camnitzer made clear that for him art was not about claiming mastery of a medium or refining an identifiable style.
Although Mr. Chernuchin doesn't claim Mr. Miller's mastery of career-driven angst and heartbreak, he is counting on the "David and Goliath" underpinnings of his series.
Only a fraction of college students in the studies fully understood the mechanisms of diffusion and osmosis, reaffirming our initial claim that student mastery of those concepts is difficult to achieve.
It may be necessary to retreat from a claim about possession of the concepts concerned, to a claim about something like mastery of those concepts, with the attendant obligation to spell out what the latter consists in, in a way that does not make the claim vacuous.
The Chernobyl explosion, 30 years ago this month, arguably played a key role in the demise of the Soviet Union – if only because it crushed whatever credibility remained of a system of authority whose claims included the safe mastery of technology.
Thirteen patients (19%) claimed to have sufficient mastery of the Dutch language.
According to one interview, his father was a newspaper compositor, but, in another, he claimed he had gained his mastery of northern character and dialogue by hiding under the counter of the family dry-cleaning business and listening to the customers.
For those who judge that all great painting springs from a mastery of line, then Sutherland, the "Fox", will claim their adherence.
Some claim the power of the art of photography; a well-composed mastery of the art, taken by a Turkish news photographer who was merely doing her job.
