Sentence examples for gained mastery of from inspiring English sources

It harkens back to the city's first age of expansion, when in the 1500s its ships gained mastery of the North Sea fisheries.

And yet it would appear that man scarcely gained mastery of practical tools before he began to use them for the abstract purpose of inscribing his impression of whatever was important or focal in his life.

Texcoco, city built in the present-day Valley of Mexico by the Acolhuas, a pre-Columbian people of the Nahuatl-speaking group of tribes, which gained mastery of the valley after the collapse of the Toltec hegemony in the mid-12th century ad.

·          At Grade 4, 70 per cent showed mastery of the literacy test (girls 81 per cent; boys 59 per cent and 455 per cent gained mastery on the numeracy test (girls 55 per cent; boys 36 per cent).

gaining mastery of the problems by a consistent development of existing theories.

Wouldn't it be better to wait until a toddler feels ready to gain mastery of her own elimination?

But any game is about using your skill to gain mastery of its conditions, not easing the conditions to the point that you can master them.

One applicant, by contrast, told me about the messy and difficult process of gaining mastery of the idiom of a foreign language and how this experience could apply to solving some of the problems I had presented.

Theirs is a sinister profile of an Andropov who schemed and plotted over 30 years to gain mastery of the Kremlin and along the way played the key role in almost all of Moscow's nastiest business.

Study groups help students to reinforce concepts learned in the regular curriculum, and help them gain mastery of concepts and problems that are often more challenging than those dealt with during lecture.

Like a painter gaining mastery of his palette, "musicians need to have a vocabulary," says Cunliffe, who won a Grammy in 2009 for best instrumental arrangement.