Sentence examples for sharpened understanding from inspiring English sources

So it's back to the drawing board, this time with a sharpened understanding that social change, serious social change, profoundly serious social change is never a process that takes place overnight.

More recently, the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic, given the very severe forms of ARDS observed in young subjects, led to improvements in equipment (cannulae, pumps and membranes), sharpened understanding of protective ventilation modalities, and renewed interest in the use of ECMO.

Meeting one-on-one with or serving as a peer tutor in mathematics, the natural sciences or a foreign language sharpens understanding for both the tutee and the tutor, and allows for a level of inquiry often shied away from in the classroom.

It requires a dialectical approach to intelligence — seeking out alternatives and refutations as a way of sharpening understanding.

This volume aims to sharpen understanding of the complex picture of general education by: describing how various conceptions of general education evolved historically, identifying various functions expected of general education in the contemporary context, and pointing out the educational practices that fulfill general education s aims in the current context.

It is also a practice that challenges me, that sharpens understanding, that increases flexibility.

Manning Marable, the director of African-American studies at Columbia University who is writing a biography of Malcolm X, said the documents would sharpen scholars' understanding of his intellectual evolution.

And then, as is always the way with Rosten – and Yiddish – he sharpens ones understanding illustratively: "A nebech is sometimes defined as the kind of person who always picks up what a shlemiel knocks over".

"It's really a tribute to this great telescope," he says, adding that Subaru's analysis could also sharpen astronomers' understanding of star formation.

They have sharpened my understanding of how to think about the problem of abortion-or more accurately, about how abortion is kept problematic-as a matter of law and of social practice.

The experience sharpened their understanding of industrial mass production and provided a foundation for their work as futurists.