Sentence examples for that he refined from inspiring English sources

Other hobos who have put their memories into words tell of the "bulls", the railway police who would beat up the boxcar riders, or shoot them; and of life in the "jungle", the name given to a community of hobos who had pooled their resources.Mr Stevens was most famous for inventing a fly repellent that he refined, and seemingly perfected, over many years.

It was also here that he refined his special vision that connects his material with the spiritual world.

In a lesson the doctor never forgot, Frist explained that he refined those goals each day and was surprised that more people didn't perform such an exercise.

In 1914, in Our Knowledge of the External World, Russell argued that the world is "constructed" out of sense-data, an idea that he refined in The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918 19).

Ayatollah Khomeini himself spent the 15 years before the revolution in Najaf, and it was there that he refined his theory of "wilayat al-faqih," or the rule of the jurist.

At the same time, his choices of images, of lace and ferns, go back to his earliest experiments in photography, and so he clearly had an aesthetic that he refined and enriched, and the results were these ethereal and mysteriously beautiful pictures.

To entitle a party to the exemption it must appear (1) that he is a farmer or a planter; (2) that he grinds the cane as well as refines the sugar and molasses; (3) that he refines his own sugar and molasses, meaning thereby the product of his own plantation.

In his treatise "On Objects of Higher Order and Their Relationship to Internal Perception" (1899) Meinong explicitly introduces the distinction between the psychological (mental) content [psychologischer Inhalt] and the object of a representation [Gegenstand einer Vorstellung] — a distinction that he refines and extends (subsequently applying it to all mental acts).

An hour later at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, his fourth gig that night, he refined the joke, more patiently establishing the framework as a comparison between chivalry past and present, adding a crisper point of view.

Ten years after that — a decade in which he refined his pioneering approach to Buddhism and psychoanalysis, published two more books and began his own studies of Zen — the ultimate patient appeared in his office.

"Mies in America," at the Whitney, documents the obsessive perfectionism with which he refined that vocabulary down to the smallest detail.