Sentence examples for mastering the rules from inspiring English sources

In May 1904, after mastering the rules of 19th-century sculpture at the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, Brancusi set out to walk from Romania to Paris.

Besides mastering the rules that books—or computer programs recommend for this style, such as avoiding passive verbs, substituting short or at least Germanic for Latinate words where possible, and the like, there are some problems peculiar to historical writing.

These results suggest that, in mastering the rules of algebra, people retrain their visual system to represent and evaluate abstract mathematical structure.

Hintikka's idea is that asserting a sentence involving quantifiers is to make a claim about what can and what cannot happen when a certain language-game is played; using language involving quantifiers requires mastering the rules of the corresponding semantic games (Hintikka 1968: Sect. 8, 1996: 12006a006a: 538).

The problem, though, is that the best rule-breakers earn it by mastering the rules in the first place, and Stanley is a television critic who thinks Ray Romano's career-making vehicle was a show called "All About Raymond".

Such ability requires mastering the rule that when one element is added to a given set, the new set becomes larger than the previous one and smaller than the next.

What better place than a retirement mecca to master the rules of Social Security?

That is highly dangerous since the machinations of the salary cap change constantly and an agent must master the rules the way a rider commands a bull.

That's why I found it easier to master the rules of the game there than did some of my French colleagues.

My hope is that, having mastered the rules of fine dining at such a tender age, McGarry will feel soon inspired to break them.

I have myself played the part of Lieutenant von Yellenic like this and so drilled my boys in the yard, until they mastered the rules just like Willi now.