Their goal was to get a first-hand sense of how ordinary Afghans would respond to this window of democracy in a province considered a Taliban stronghold.
Mr. Rumsfeld said he intended to meet with American troops as well as the American military and civilian leadership in Iraq, in the hope of getting "a first-hand sense of how things are going".
I came to get a first-hand sense of this year's politically charged Ashura season and I hope my experiences between Qom and Tehran during the last few days can offer insight beyond the headlines and grainy mobile phone video clips.
The purpose of the site visits are to interview key informants, collect additional corroborating documentary data, gain a first-hand sense of the myriad actors and organizations involved in the prenatal record review process, and seek potential opportunities to directly observe decision-making processes in provinces currently engaged in prenatal record review.
As someone who has practised parkour, albeit as a beginner, I know first hand the sense of exhilaration and accomplishment after performing some of the moves.
I could see, first hand, that in a sense his performance illustrated the whole sick condition of life in the 'hood.
Despite this first hand knowledge, though, you do sense a certain fuzziness in the details Eliot paints of political life.
Landsat multispectral satellite data are a natural first hand choice among the remote sensing data sources, since the data are freely available, have a suitable pixel size of 30 m and wavelength bands suitable for forest monitoring, are regularly provided and offer a data continuity since the 1980s.
He has been through huge cultural changes in music as well as witnessing first hand the record business lose all sense of reason in the gold rush of CDs and then lose all sense of direction as the internet made its impact upon it.
Students experienced public pedagogy first hand and were also given their own sense of working within the public domain.
Comparisons between the simulation results and some conclusions reflecting common sense available in open literature serves as first hand partial validation of the developed model.
