But what type of evidence is needed to safely say that an aspiring teacher has not only grasped essential notions and concepts from the teacher education course, but is also able to implement them in real world classroom situations?
The company hadn't grasped the notion that ads increasingly interact.
So a random flight of corvids – at liberty once more – grasped the notion of a "meta-tool", applied an abstract idea and matched complex cognition and behavioural innovation.
Erasmus Darwin did not make this connection, but he clearly grasped the notion of reproductive excess, for instance in his Temple of Nature (see Harrison 1971): Air, earth, and ocean, to astonish'd day One scene of blood, one mighty tomb display!
They seem to have grasped the notion that developing a support system with your brothers and sisters forms a healthy basis for future relationships.
When Hilliard's shoulder was dislocated by Brian Dawkins's helmet last Monday night in Philadelphia, a large load fell to Carter and Dixon, a third-year player who has spent most of his professional career trying to grasp the notions of consistency and maturity.
Not only is the idea of a permanent self a conceptual fiction, but adopting such a view leads to grasping after notions such as 'I,'meme,' and 'mine' with deleterious effects for our psychological well being: attachment to such a fictional 'I' is the root cause of a range of negative emotions, including selfishness, craving, hatred, conceit, and ill-will.
In the end, the biggest mistake we Senior parents could make is to sanction the sacrifice of this precious, finite time to the grasping notion that there are a certain very few number of right places for our kids to go to college, and that we have no choice but to be all-consumed with getting them there.
But that was before companies had grasped such fashionable notions as corporate identity; and before they had cottoned on to the trick of handing large cheques to people who could teach them to be cool or hot or both at once.
I assumed New Labour's talk of community meant it wasn't interested in making war on the working class, and wasn't in thrall to the neoliberal vision of man – an atomised individual whose motivations could be completely grasped by economic notions of value.
The inexplicable nature of romantic longing, the insuperable divide between thought and feeling, is a predicament as old as the hills, and one that, I'd guess, women are more disturbed by than men -- especially the sort of women who have "grasped certain fundamental notions first advanced by Plato" and still find themselves doubled over with "the agony of sexual reasoning".
