Sentence examples for grasp of materials from inspiring English sources

Each piece benefited from his profound grasp of materials, of metaphor and of his own emotional state.

His last book, Stuff Matters, won the 2014 Royal Society prize; in 2017 he was awarded the Michael Faraday prize for his "excellence in communicating science to UK audiences", and convincingly argued in that year's Faraday Lecture that a proper grasp of materials science might help us avoid a global human catastrophe.

The deeper "Ricky" plunges into allegory, the shakier its grasp of the material.

The process of marking provides invaluable feedback on students' grasp of the material.

(No advance registration necessary). The department exam should be taken by (1). students who have had at least a semester of calculus but did not take a CEEB, GCE, or IB Exam; (2). students who believe that their placement is incorrect; (3). students who feel that their grasp of the material is uncertain.

Recommended electives are designed to deepen the student's grasp of material that will be central to the writing of his/her dissertation.

Moreover, the board decided that a failing score, or Level 1 score -- indicating only minimal grasp of material -- on standardized reading and math tests would be only one of three factors in a promotion decision.

While the tests have distinct personalities — the ACT is curriculum-based, while the SAT is aimed more at general reasoning and problem-solving skills — spokesmen for both say their formats favor only one type of student: the one with a good grasp of material taught in rigorous high school courses.

Geneve S. Maroon's suggestion (letter, April 29) that colleges, instead of asking for S.A.T. results, demand "3, or 6 or 10 hours of monitored written work, demonstrating a grasp of material learned and an ability to express oneself" is an intelligent, if time-consuming and expensive approach to insuring college literacy.

His grasp of economics is shaky.

Keen grasp of the obvious?