"I would like a first-hand understanding on where it is going".
Twelve courses later, we waddled out, with a first-hand understanding of the creativity, skill and tensions behind a great restaurant meal.
Employees in the A.G. offices looked at homeowners' documents and interviewed them face-to-face — giving them a first-hand understanding of how bad things were.
By design, the commission is made up of policymakers with a first-hand understanding of how laws get made and how public policy is brokered.
Michael K. Powell, the F.C.C.'s current chairman, said yesterday that he would travel to New York tomorrow to meet with industry executives, analysts and debt-rating agencies to "gain a first-hand understanding" of recent changes in the telecommunications industry.
Mildred Gordon, who has died aged 92, was raised in the heart of the old East End of London with a first-hand understanding of the impact of poverty on the lives of the underprivileged and the power of politics as an instrument of change.
The confrontation enriches his second-hand understanding of the devastation wreaked upon his family – still pressing heavily upon his elderly parents – while subjecting the perpetrators to an even tougher line of questioning than the one taken by Oppenheimer himself.
Second, very few evolutionary biologists have a first-hand understanding of macroevolution, and they do not spend substantial time on it in their college courses.
Balderton, which has invested in Wooga, Natural Motion (recently sold to Zynga) and Big Fish Games (recently sold to Churchill Downs), has a first-hand understanding of the tremendous effort startups must invest to produce a hit app.
Even the most sophisticated market research operation can't replace first-hand understanding of what goes on in the customer's life and how it is affected by your product, process or service.
