Sentence examples for knowledge won from inspiring English sources

But his wit, his polished, easy writing, and above all his knowledge won him respect.

This knowledge won him the favour of al-Walīd II and perhaps others of the Umayyad caliphs of Damascus.

Finally, because I like to dream big: Making a lateral move to another team within the company could keep you engaged (win for you) and cultivate your institutional knowledge (win for employer).

In an intellectual exercise, knowledge wins.

His utopian idea of transmitting in encyclopaedic form the knowledge thus won was still bound up with medieval Scholastic conceptions; however, the results of his research were among the first great achievements of the forthcoming age's thinking, because they were based to an unprecedented degree on the principle of experience.

But it exists because there is now comfort in the knowledge that winning is for losers.

Let's hope those concerned allow knowledge to win over fear.

I'm experimenting with ideas from escape rooms, where students solve puzzles requiring subject knowledge to win the game.

His brand of Jeopardy fame is based on a common perception about the show: the person with the most trivial knowledge will win.

For these people, "breaking into a system or exposing a system's weaknesses in literal terms is a good thing because truth and knowledge should win out in the long run," said Dan Farmer, a network security specialist.

Mr. Richardson, in turn, has used this firsthand knowledge to win access and influence — for instance, with Mr. Clinton, who while in office was hungry for details about the country's most mysterious adversaries.