Sentence examples for your stock of knowledge from inspiring English sources

The minimum inference that could be drawn from adventure is a sense of discovering new things to buttress your stock of knowledge.

He was just a natural working-class thinker, following the common stock of knowledge.

They have been modelling the impact of AIDS on human capital, the stock of knowledge and abilities in a population that fuels long-term economic growth.

That may seem harsh, given that the reports have contributed more than their fair share to the world's stock of knowledge.

And he never sought a patent for it, because he had drawn on a common stock of knowledge and felt committed to "produce something for the common benefit".

Six months later, in January 2011, we touched down at Khartoum International airport with a pair of sleeping bags, five energy bars, and an embarrassingly small stock of knowledge about our final destination.

It is, simply, this: a landslide would devalue the stock of knowledge which gave them pundit status in the first place.Consider what insiders think they know about British politics.

"Although countries have access to the same stock of knowledge," they write, "they do not all make equally efficient use of this knowledge because policies in some countries lead to barriers that effectively prevent firms from adopting more productive technologies and from changing to more efficient work practices".

It was thought by Keynes, for example, that society's growing stock of knowledge, along with the rise of remarkable new production technologies, would radically reduce the need to work and eventually leave us free for other things: for culture, politics, and the organisation of productive and socially beneficial activities outside the formal economy.

"A society in which there is a widespread understanding of the nation's past, a shared appreciation of cultural reference points, a common stock of knowledge on which all can draw, and trade, is a society in which we all understand each other better," he added.

In mathematics, "unless children are introduced to that stock of knowledge, unless they know how to use numbers with confidence, unless multiplication, long division, become automatic processes, they won't be able to use mathematics creatively … to make the discoveries which are going to make our lives better in the future".