Sentence examples for first hand from the from inspiring English sources

As he had experienced the Groer affair first hand from the beginning, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Groer's successor, has become an excellent crisis manager.

The story, which was picked up by Longreads.com and Byliner.com, has been read by bureaucrats, health-care workers, activists, educators and many who suffer first hand from the shockingly high rates of diabetes, alcoholism, and suicide rates in a community where life expectancy in the high 40s rivals many developing countries.

"He was a good guy in his way, but I saw police work at first hand from the time I was very little," he said of his dad-with-a-rap-sheet. Father and son were able to bond, though, "since visiting day was Sunday".

The British government took advantage of this by commissioning paintings based on scenes seen at first hand, from the leading artists of the day.

The survey also looked at the impact of the recession, first hand, from the youths who are living through it every day.

The group's fighters learned this tactic first hand from the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when American General David Petraeus essentially bribed moderate Sunni tribal leaders to fight them.

I don't have a way of validating the credibility of the rumor as it came to us third hand from the Durham Police to various members of the Duke community.

The newest trams in Adelaide are six Alstom Citadis (model 302) trams which were purchased second hand from the Spanish city of Madrid.

TechCrunch covered this story back in March, but it was interesting to hear the description of the service first hand from someone behind the scenes.

John hears testimony from the people who experienced it at first hand - from soldiers on the front line and from those who remember whole families being wiped out within days of loved ones returning from the fighting.

I know at first hand, from visits to the Peterhead Labour Party, that he had their respect for diligently applying himself to the problems of constituents who, he must have guessed, had no intention of giving him their vote.