What Lack grasped early on was that reliability was in many ways beside the point.
We still took a lot of flak from friends and some relatives, who didn't understand what we were doing and accused us of being too influenced by the west or of lacking a grasp of reality.
Previous heirs, such as Edward VII and Edward VIII, have been condemned for not having done this; in consequence they lacked sufficient grasp of issues to make their dialogue with ministers effective when they acceded to the throne.
Hearings in the case took place intermittently throughout 1998 and 1999, though many were postponed when interpreters failed to appear or lacked sufficient grasp of Mr. Mkhizi's Swahili dialect.
Mr. Serra, a 60-year-old economist and former cabinet minister, had based his second-round strategy on a series of head-on televised confrontations with Mr. da Silva, intending to show that the front-runner lacked a grasp of detail and was unqualified to govern.
The military still lacks a grasp of the basic biomechanics needed for a successful leg exoskeleton, Gregorczyk and several others concluded in a recent research proposal.
Psychopaths seem to have trouble learning from experience, lack a grasp of means-end reasoning, and lack an ability to plan for the longer term or formulate and pursue longer-term goals.
But we tend to lack that grasp of nuance when the disease is psychological.
An indifferent filmmaker who got industry traction after his debut, "The Help," struck it rich, Taylor lacks the grasp and sophistication to make the Butterworths' iffy script workable.
Then there are the critics who lack full grasp of the facts but plow on all the same, criticizing your work, efforts or even yourself, based on their preferences as opposed to the facts.
