Sentence examples for firsthand contact from inspiring English sources

Few were abolitionists at first, but firsthand contact with slavery and the un-Christian moral degradation it imposed on both slaves and masters gradually changed their minds.

Rather than return to campaign in the primary when he recognized Nixon's attractiveness, he remained in the capital, allowing Nixon to court newspaper publishers and reporters as well as constituents who wanted to have firsthand contact with their congressional representative.

For Brian and Raina's daughter Becca, her firsthand contact with Shamanism and Buddhism at home and overseas made a big impact and inspired her to explore those traditions more deeply in her own life.

What this rarefied collection of heaven-sent do-gooders lacked in basic knowledge of classroom pedagogy and actual firsthand contact with nanny-less human schoolchildren, they more than compensated for in name recognition; soaring rhetoric; and the blind, unwavering conviction that nothing less than a systemic upheaval of the current school system could salvage public education.

But Mrs. Sidel knows from her firsthand contacts as a psychiatric social worker that such statistics present "people with the tears washed off". Consequently, she has supplemented the statistical evidence with material from interviews she conducted with nearly 100 poor women and professionals who deal with the problems of the poor in 12 states.

The law requires the workers to report suspected abuse they hear about from third parties in addition to cases they observe firsthand or learn about through contact with a child's parent or guardian.

Today I've spent listening--to my contacts on social media, to firsthand witnesses interviewed on the news, to comments from friends via text, to commentators and analysts.

As the campaign's former chairman and a top campaign aide from March to August 2016, Manafort could have been a key firsthand witness for Mueller as the special counsel explores contacts between Trump associates and Russians.

And some -- mostly, though by no means all, women and white men -- said they had so little direct contact with the police they could not draw a firsthand impression.

Your friends should call the program contact listed on the review roster and get a firsthand report.

Street contacting is challenging, and the Elders experienced that firsthand during the months they've served as missionaries: People ignore them or cross the street.