Sentence examples for present grasp of from inspiring English sources

The dynamic picture, again very roughly, is that a child at a stage proceeds until she faces an insurmountable obstacle; her present grasp of things makes it impossible for her to deal with a recalcitrant problem.

However the details are filled in, the naturalist seems vulnerable either to a charge of either likely error or emptiness since, on the one hand, much science as presently constituted is all too liable to turn out false while, on the other, any appeal to an ideal completed science is apt to be as thin on content as our present grasp of what such an ideal science might say (Hampton 1998, chapter 1).

Augustine presents our grasp of the sensible world as grounded in a relatively unproblematic relation of direct acquaintance [e.g De Magistro 12.39.

This paper presents grasping strategy of robot fingers based on tactile sensing information acquired by optical three-axis tactile sensor.

Most of the presented grasp analysis is based on quasi-static considerations.

An exact analogy between the two organisms seems to be at present beyond the grasp of research.

But the three finalists all presented a strong grasp of group interplay as well as a show of competence.

It is an atemporal present, a single complete grasp of all events in the entire span of time.

He says he believes he is winning his war, and his grasp of the present, as well as of the past and the future, is as sharp as anyone's.

So then I read all the Hughes poems I could lay my hands on and what they all had in common was that imaginative grasp of the present - that ability to speak strictly within one moment and not through a misted screen of remembered moments.

Confident of his prowess, United believe De Gea's currently faltering grasp of English presents one of his most substantial challenges.