Sentence examples for partial grasp of from inspiring English sources

This movement in understanding is necessary for human beings because as animals they only ever have a partial grasp of the natures of things, insofar as their knowledge depends upon always incomplete and partial sensible experience of the world.

Some hold that idiolects in this sense do not exist, or even that the notion is incoherent, but are happy to use the word 'idiolect' to mean something else, such as a person's partial grasp of, or pattern of deviance from, language that is inherently communal.

Niko (Andre Robinson) is a 10-year-old hero, grown for the job but prematurely out of his cocoon; he has only a partial grasp of how the world works.

Years of striving to understand parasite modifications to the RBC have led to a partial grasp of the nature of the remodelled iRBC and the mechanisms used by the parasite to achieve these alterations.

In the present study we report a partial, fragmented grasp of what it means to eat for health.

To get an intuitive grasp of partial derivatives, suppose you were an ant crawling over some rugged terrain (a two-variable function) where the x-axis is north-south with positive x to the north, the y-axis is east-west and the z-axis is up-down.

Some of Mr. Hevesi's opponents described them as a desperate grasp of a campaign in trouble, and even Democrats partial to Mr. Hevesi acknowledged that voters could perceive it that way, fairly or not.

The belief that some thing is accidental or spontaneous can be based only on an inadequate grasp of the thing's causal explanation, on a partial and "mutilated" familiarity with it.

So if we are voting for Obama our religion ought to remind us that our political favorite as strongly as we "believe" in him has only a partial truth- even though that partial truth compels us to vote for him - and that the religious mandate is to use our religious sources to help us locate and wrestle with the partial truth on the other side so as to be ever widening our grasp of the Truth.

And if we are voting for McCain our religion ought to remind us that our political favorite as strongly as we "believe" in him has only a partial truth- even though that partial truth compels us to vote for him - and that the religious mandate is to use our religious sources to help us locate and wrestle with the partial truth on the other side so as to be ever widening our grasp of the Truth.

Good grasp of technology.