Sentence examples for grasp of rules from inspiring English sources

Having primitively normative attitudes does not require prior grasp of rules, concepts, or meanings.

The attitude required is one of "primitive appropriateness" – such appropriateness cannot be explicated in terms of truth (Ginsborg 2012, 132), and taking something to be appropriate in this sense does not require any prior grasp of rules, concepts, or meaning (ibid. 137f).

The pieces are lined up in neat rows, ready for battle, as Magnus Carlsen prepares to take on a man (me) whose grasp of the rules is the only thing between him and the imaginary title of the world's worst chess player.

G. Wodehouse, not surprisingly, showed his grasp of this rule when he had one of the Drones, on holiday in France, point out that he had been given a Continental breakfast consisting of "a roll shaped like a crescent and a roll shaped like a roll".

His grasp of economics is shaky.

Keen grasp of the obvious?

Poor grasp of English language?

Businesses weighed the risks of hiring autistic students who might not automatically grasp standard rules of workplace behavior.

He made sure the family pets were of different sexes so that their children would grasp the rules of Hebrew gender.

The book, published as part of the famous Soviet and Russian series of biographies called The Life of Remarkable People, also details Gagarin's struggle to grasp the rules of etiquette in the royal household.

Status-based targeting had not been sanctioned for this part of the operation, but Horne told me that during the planning phase he could not grasp the rules of engagement.