Sentence examples for knowing the first from inspiring English sources

Her interest was piqued, in spite of not knowing the first thing about wine.

For another, one can't imagine populist politicians knowing the first thing about Rousseau or Bakunin.

I had managed since 1999 to avoid knowing the first thing about it.

And presumably, knowing the first ring will be ignored, the wan giri will now simply ring twice.

Not knowing the first thing about gardens, and driven by little more than shame at the state it's got into, I set about one small corner, hacking my way through ferocious weeds and thorns, them viciously biting back.

From Roman Jakobson and the Russian Formalists, to postmodern appropriations of pop culture references, techniques of defamiliarization and the construction of the uncanny have helped literature succeed in altering the vision of habit, habit being that which Proust so aptly describes as a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first.

Knowing the first two will open your doors into knowing the third, build your literacy skills in Japanese, and enable you to take the JLPT.

The first is derived from Carper's four ways of knowing; the second is Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA).

We consider three feedback types: minimal (only knowing whether winning or not), loser (also knowing the winning bid) and winner (knowing the second highest bid if winning).

Building on that we see the cultivation of profound learning relationships to nature and to social fields as gateways to the deeper sources of knowing ("the fourth teacher").

"We can still disagree and, knowing the new first minister, we both know that, to coin a phrase, the ricks will melt in the sun before that stops," she said.