Sentence examples for first-hand appreciation from inspiring English sources

Ours, happily, is different, and I find myself clinging to the handful of friends who have first-hand appreciation of our situation.

Pineda also won competitive selection by the European Union to a program designed to give young leaders from around the world a first-hand appreciation of the EU's goals, policies and peoples.

Being a non-Briton himself, he had a first-hand appreciation for how problematic UK visas can be.

I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting.

"Astronauts have a very clear understanding of why space programs need artists," says Pell. "Not necessarily because they understand contemporary arts practices and rationales but rather that through the experience of human spaceflight, they develop first-hand appreciation for the value of creative expression, personal expression, communication, outreach and human factors.

"I got the chance to see first-hand the appreciation that the people in the communities have for the progress they've made with regard to sanitation and the affordability of clean, safe drinking water".

Some of this mistrust of science is rooted in the lack of appreciation and first-hand experience of how science works.

From the instructors' perspective, one of the most valuable gains from the project is students' appreciation of the affordances and constraints of digital technologies for connecting, interaction, and learning through first-hand experience.

Morgan Gillis knows this first-hand.

Experience martial arts first-hand.

According to local customs, men received small quantities of salt and soap and women received an item of second-hand clothing as an appreciation for their efforts.