Sentence examples for ground understanding from inspiring English sources

Thus, though she emerged within the New York liberal intelligentsia -- she has cited Lionel Trilling as a major influence -- she jettisoned its liberalism, rejecting the twin pillars on which Trilling stood: Matthew Arnold (criticism as a humane discipline) and Sigmund Freud (the need to ground understanding in self-understanding).

And then I think people can start moving on". I think being on the ground, understanding the people, getting close to the culture must be of singular importance.

All of these examples of disciplinary learning show that gesture, and arguably embodied actions more broadly, may serve as a useful resource in improving spatial thinking precisely because it serves to ground understanding of spatial concepts in bodily action.

Specifically, more contextualized learning activities can provide a concrete context on which to ground understanding of concepts that might otherwise be more abstract and less readily comprehended, which should benefit learning on the whole, but may also be especially beneficial for low spatial students.

These trips gave Sky a chance to speak to Iraqis and see places for herself, picking up valuable on-the-ground understanding she could feed back to the general and his staff.

But another part lies in redoubling their efforts, interrupted by his overseas trip, to move Mr. Obama out from behind speechmaking lecterns and to convey his on-the-ground understanding of voters' economic struggles.

This account of his growing on-the-ground understanding of his 'Orient' and his later dealings with warlords, deciders, intelligence officers, policymakers, and a wide public is an essential and pleasurable must-read.

As dean, Steve was heavily involved in the transition to, and ongoing relationship with, Campus Shared Services, and he will bring to this interim role an on-the-ground understanding of research administration as well as demonstrated success in fostering faculty-led interdisciplinary research programs.

In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, the Yale University psychologists Jerome Singer and Michael Barrios tried to gain a more empirically grounded understanding of what it meant to be creatively blocked.

An empirically grounded understanding of European rights can contribute to a more rigorous evaluation of the desirability of the emerging European constitutional order.

There is a need for a theoretically grounded understanding of acceptance of different location-tracking technology options, and its research implications.