And yet each side's ability to grasp the other's position (or fail to), and to adjust its policy (or fail to) in the light of changing events, seems exactly as agile, or as clumsy, as it is today.
To understand how Thomson acquired a certain happy infamy at mid-century, you must first grasp the peculiarly prominent position that classical music occupied in this country circa 1940, when, after two decades in Stein's Paris, Thomson was appointed the chief music critic of the Herald Tribune.
But his average has skidded from.290 to.260 and O'Neill is seemingly losing his grasp on the position.
And she fully grasped the thankless position of the teachers left to impart knowledge and instill citizenship in the face of awesome obstacles.
On the political stage, however, Peng seems to grasp the tactical change of position necessary when the theatre of war turns from entertainment to politics.
Miller seems to have shown a certain literal-mindedness in her approach to the church's concerns: a slightly tactless inability to grasp the subtleties of its position.
Here, we explore the consequences of a simple, and previously ignored, fact that in a grasping posture the position of the male's grasping appendages relative to the female's body is often a function of body size difference between the sexes.
In addition to investigating piezoresistive responses of PCSSs embedded in the beam, traditional strain gauges and finite element method (FEM) were also used to grasp the strains at relevant positions for comparison.
