Sentence examples for grasped lessons from inspiring English sources

The recriminations eased only after 2007, when American commanders under Gen. David H. Petraeus adopted new counterinsurgency tactics that British officers saw as drawing partly on lessons Britain had learned in earlier conflicts, leading British officers to say that the Americans had finally grasped lessons missed at the outset of the war.

It is so heartening to know that our nation has grasped the lessons of Sept. 11 and has all its priorities in working order.

In any case, aside from the blankie thing, "Pajanimals" contains pleasant songs and easy-to-grasp lessons.

Ashford obviously grasped its lesson, while Vivian did not.

Unfortunately, not enough people grasped that lesson, and a decade later we had a global crisis that made the Asian crisis look trivial by comparison.

And we're old enough to have lost people whom we loved; we thought we had grasped the lesson of that grief.

Whether or not he has seen Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, James has sharply grasped the lesson about selling contained in those plays.

But it seems safe to say that before the end of the party in his honor, he has grasped the lesson that Frank's doctor, between name-dropping and menu gazing at a restaurant table, sets forth earlier: "Forever alone, that's our lot, and try as we might, we can't change it".

Most seem unable to grasp the lessons of the last crisis, still less to anticipate the next one.Take Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Britain's second-largest bank, which in February merrily increased its dividends to shareholders despite ample warning that the worst of the global credit crunch was yet to arrive.

Above all, I grasped two essential lessons.

The fact that the ECB has yet to grasp this lesson is bewildering.