Sentence examples for competent grasp from inspiring English sources

He developed his academic as well as his athletic talents as a youth, and has a competent grasp of how to invest the insurance payout he qualifies to receive.

While almost every franchise that you can own will provide you with some level of training and support, it is particularly important to have a competent grasp of the product in a franchise where you will be hiring employees and explaining your product to future customers.

In the case of indexicals and rigidified definite descriptions, competent speakers grasp a reference-fixing criterion without grasping the modal profile of the object, kind, or property picked out by the expression.

Kripke and Putnam attacked a pair of related views about natural kind terms: descriptivist semantics (the meaning of such a term is a description satisfied by all and only members of the kind) and internalism (the meaning of such a term, the relevant description, is fully grasped by competent users of the term so that what fixes the extension of the term supervenes on what is internal to the user).

25) as expressively as he did seemed a greater feat than offering a poetic rendition of a Chopin nocturne, something within the grasp of most competent pianists.

A small simple roof is well within the grasp of a competent do-it-yourself-er.

Rather, the modal argument is intended to exclude as possible descriptions those that could be constitutive of a sense or connotation that is grasped by any competent user of the term.

It has grasped the importance of competent local governance, even if it has a long way to go to putting that in place.

Singular propositions are too coarse-grained to account for what a competent speaker understands in virtue of grasping the meaning of a sentence.

Infinitely many sentences belong to mathematical discourse, and to be competent with mathematical discourse involves having the competence to grasp these infinitely many sentences.

NATO was successful and NATO was competent and NATO kept the peace but a new era is upon us and NATO is grasping for a new role and it may not have a role to play in 2009 and beyond.