Sentence examples for first hand only from inspiring English sources

As with business ventures, entrepreneurial philanthropists should invest only in what they can grasp at first hand; only by understanding their chosen area of intervention can they hope to have impact (King, 2004).

The enveloping, sensory-overpowering experience of seeing an E.R.C show first-hand only increases the punch and sense of immediacy contained in the content of the 1612 Underture.

Much of the information available on the Gray-headed Tanager comes from first hand accounts from only a handful of people.

It was in Columbus that she experienced racial hatred first hand; there were only a few black female students there, and Kennedy felt ostracized by her white classmates.

As a coach, I've learned first hand that the only way out of pain is through it.

I saw this phenomenon first hand in the only time I ever saw Michael Jackson (or at least part of him).

The resolution of this question depends primarily on an interpretation of Cicero's Academica, our principal, and only first hand, philosophical source for Academic skepticism.

Skin conductance response was measured using Ag/AgCl electrodes attached to the second and third finger of the left hand (only during the mental stress test, see below).

The site highlights "a series of dialogues on the ins and outs of beauty, told and experienced first-hand not only by insiders but by real people". What the site carries is a clear reflection of current trends in the beauty industry.

First, the calculator (dubbed X-VIZ) is designed to be used with one hand only, and second, it's the brain child of famed robot designer Tatsuya Matsui.

One of the few negatives of physical fieldwork is that the location is only visited first hand at that specific time and date.