Sentence examples for firsthand example from inspiring English sources

He had taken on the burdens of being a single parent both parents, actually with little talent for the work and no firsthand example or memory to draw upon.

A firsthand example of that attitude was captured in the video that came to dominate Mitt Romney's doomed presidential campaign: the moment when Romney described the 47% of Americans who would vote to re-elect President Barack Obama "no matter what" because "they believe they are victims" and that the government has a responsibility to care for them.

These actions can provide firsthand examples to university officials of the value add that veterans provide in regards to leadership and community involvement, and can also debunk the stereotype that veterans are not academically equipped to tackle challenging concepts discussed in class.

See firsthand examples of how this can work in practise with our feature authors Laurie Geller and Joan Woods.

It incorporates parts the writer might have known firsthand, for example the box-edged parterre at the front of the house.

The sight of these texts made me long to reach into the glass cabinets and turn the pages -- to read firsthand, for example, what Bartram wrote when he was navigating a river thick with bellowing alligators.

Your children will witness them firsthand and learn by example; the world that you have tried so hard to ease them into, ever so gently, is not always patient and kind, nor does it hold your hand as you walk through the hardest of days and most challenging of situations.

The three attendants also gave examples of firsthand experience with turnpike customers that had convinced them that motorists were not as supportive of turnpikes as OTA executives believed.

He cites the Eli1/3n Gonz1/3lez saga, which he witnessed firsthand in Miami, as an example of the discrepancies between TV epics and reality: "A lot of Cubans in Florida thought that the kid should go home whether they liked Castro or not.

Ms. Williams travelled with a delegation last month to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, for example, to learn firsthand how women's organizations are overcoming barriers to peace.

Mr. Koch learned that lesson firsthand.