Sentence examples for maintains mastery from inspiring English sources

For if, as Chomsky maintains, mastery of language involves knowledge of rules stated in terms of sentences' syntactic properties, and if those properties are not so to speak 'present' in the data, but are rather highly abstract and 'unobservable,' then it becomes hard to see how children could possibly acquire knowledge of the rules concerning them.

It is his interpretation of Stoic philosophy, focusing on accepting things out of your control and maintaining mastery over your emotions.

Second, with respect to everyday activity, the capacity to immerse oneself in the doing may be one route to develop and maintain mastery.

In my research, I have discovered that throughout history, many dominant groups have depicted or represented minority groups in a variety of negative ways in order to maintain control or mastery.

It is an enigma manipulated and maintained with mastery.

As the banking crisis intensifies, he seems set to maintain that mastery.

MARINERS 6, ORIOLES 2: Mark McLemore and Ruben Sierra homered in the fifth and Seattle maintained its mastery of Baltimore at home.

But the same sort of long-term forbearance will likely be required of the public if the terrorists maintain their mastery of the element of surprise.

BRUINS 5, CANADIENS 3: Brian Rolston scored to break a third-period tie, and Byron Dafoe maintained his mastery of Montreal as Boston beat the visiting Canadiens.

If the Braves maintain their mastery over the Mets next season, the extra games they play could make a huge difference in the distance between them, given that everything else is equal.

Alma hasn't read the book Darwin will eventually publish — but Gilbert most certainly has, and she maintains an admirable mastery of the big ideas she paraphrases as Alma's "Theory of Competitive Alteration".