Sentence examples for grasp of both from inspiring English sources
Lawrence, an academic without formal military training, displayed an astonishing grasp of both regular and irregular military tactics.
This synthesis is fully evident in "Madame Mao," whose bracing theatricality owes much to Mr. Sheng's innate grasp of both operatic traditions.
It shows Bromell's bold grasp of both place and period that he gives Hooper the idea of staging go-cart races in the desert.
But unless he shows a firmer grasp of both organisation and policy, the country's brilliantly awful politicians will continue to milk state funds to run their regional fiefs.
The authors shrewdly analyze President Bill Clinton's grasp of both the upsides and downsides of globalization, which was bringing about the economic and technological integration of the world, even as it was accelerating centrifugal forces of fragmentation.
A self-taught grasp of both modern jazz drumming technique and the harmonic and structural principles of bebop gave Crombie's natural musicality and ear for melody extra dimensions of breadth and depth.
Though the spell the story casts depends on its grasp of human cruelty (both the blind dog and the boy have in different ways been wounded by war), when at last the participants are memorialized in a cathedral relief — "Each person has a hold of the other, each one is connected to the one before him" — we feel in the presence of a bright, reassuring truth about community.
Plutarch maintains that there are two levels of causality, physical and intelligible, and full understanding of natural phenomena requires the grasping of both.
"Kerry sees him as someone who had labored long in the Democratic vineyard, who had a real grasp of policy, both foreign and domestic, and who is absolutely qualified for the job," said one Democrat who has worked for both men.
Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter both prided themselves on their grasp of complexity; yet both ended up as failed Presidents.
In the soul of the Stoic sage, the knowledge of the good is an unshakeable grasp of what is good both for the sage and for the whole universe.
