Sentence examples for understanding first hand from inspiring English sources

If your governing body is free to make strategic and programmatic decisions without understanding, first hand, the financial implications of those decisions, you are setting your nonprofit up for failure.

He has vast experience of managing in the Premier League and an understanding, first-hand, of the north-east and the passion of our fans, which will stand him in great stead.

Although N.S. had an unintended pregnancy after age 35 while using condoms, she reports successful use of the oral contraceptive pill for more than a decade because of her understanding and first hand experience that the pill is treating her chronic medical condition of anovulatory bleeding.

Our knowledge of electronic music was much stronger in weird, abstract IDM than it was in house or techno, and our understanding came second hand.

I work with trashed objects myself which affords me a more intimate, first hand understanding of the satisfaction in finding 'the good stuff,' then figuring out a compelling, aesthetic and sound way of assembling these resurrected materials to create something fresh.

"He brings with him a real connection with the audience, a deep understanding of the digital landscape and first hand experience of running channels," she said.

As with business ventures, entrepreneurial philanthropists should invest only in what they can grasp at first hand; only by understanding their chosen area of intervention can they hope to have impact (King, 2004).

Apart from the rather different work of Roberts [ 5], this is one of the first studies to elicit the first hand accounts of understandings of participants in a trial of a biomedical intervention in psychiatry.

Clients at the event are promised "first hand insight into how government works", "greater understanding of policy development, and how to influence it" and "increased empathy with ministers".

By seeing first hand various artistic, social and political activities, they hope to achieve a greater understanding between the two nations.

I witnessed it first hand.