Sentence examples for weak grasp from inspiring English sources

With such a weak grasp of your brief you don't deserve to be a minister.

Kamens suspected that Harroun, with his weak grasp of Arabic, had confused "Nasser" with "Nusra".

He had a weak grasp of how political parties worked, and of the role of the American presidency.

Research by Professor Shipps and Freeman of Ohio Wesleyan University found that a weak grasp conveyed "guilt, fatigue and regression".

Topics ranged widely, even as many pundits pilloried senators for their weak grasp of social media and technology.

Government officials recognize that they still have a weak grasp of how much plutonium is contaminating the environment.

Children under 14, however, have a much weaker grasp on these concepts.

This weaker grasp means that it takes much less magnetism to make a given change in the pseudo-hydrogen's spectrum than it would for real hydrogen.

This substantive debate mostly showed how weak a grasp on the issues the candidates actually have.

It makes them too weak to grasp onto things for long periods of time.

House Speaker John Boehner, ironically, is on record revealing how weak a grasp he's got on the Constitution.