Managers had tried to achieve a false level of "perfection," and in the process losing valuable time and a thorough grasp of the big picture.
He is a master musician with a thorough grasp of composition.
Kennedy's homework ritual paid off in a thorough grasp of the issues.
Or it could be understood extravagantly as a thorough grasp of reality and man's place therein.
And no understanding of contemporary China can be complete without a thorough grasp of this suppressed community.
While in Washington, Johnson worked tirelessly on behalf of Kleberg's constituents and quickly developed a thorough grasp of congressional politics.
"Deep" rather than "broad" experience of opera might help, together with a thorough grasp of music (a word not used in the brief).
This makes her the perfect candidate to star in a historical novel, and Dalby, armed with a thorough grasp of the period, has seized the opportunity.
In 1951, the year of King's graduation from Crozer, Dean Charles Batten praised him as "one of our most outstanding students" and someone who exhibited "fine preparation, an excellent mind, and a thorough grasp of the material" (Papers 1 390 391).
Although it seems clear, that the architecture will be defined by parameters that reflect this radically new context, for the moment it seems that architects are having a hard time getting a thorough grasp on these new circumstances.
The book under review is the work of an accomplished scholar, reflecting a thorough grasp of theories of language contact, of Mayan language scholarship, and of the linguistic character of the Lowland Mayan languages, and geographically affected non-Lowland languages.
