Sentences with phrase «weak grasp»

As Catherine struggles to cope with the heartbreak of her father's recent suicide and the subsequent loss of her boyfriend, the narrative slips between summers past and present with surreal fluidity, echoing Catherine's increasingly weak grasp on dull concepts such as time and memory.

To overlook expenses is to juggle your internal books so you have a weak grasp on how the business is doing.

I am sad to report that this year's game, «Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare,» has the weakest grasp on my interests that the series has had in years, despite a solid single player campaign.

A weak grasp of grace leads to a lack of security.

Given such a weak grasp of such an elementary fact, Wolfe's subsequent assertions on subtle points of evolutionary theory warrant suspicion.

Most U.S. students continue to have a weak grasp of civics, as well as U.S. history and geography, recent national data suggest.

«Too many pupils have a weak grasp of literacy skills which affects how well they do at school,» she said.

Specifically, the project team has found that students have a weak grasp of their own development in the domain of critical thinking and how those skills can be transferred to other contexts.

Most books don't earn out their advances, which to me indicates a weak grasp on the market — if publishers truly understood the market, most books should earn out; that they don't means their strategy is throwing crap against a wall to see what sticks.

Roger has a weak grasp of statistics that has been demonstrated on various occasions so it's not clear whether he is really being mendacious.

The prime minister appears to have a weak grasp of the contitution and associated documents, and the historical development of the division of powers.

It won't be long before law societies — or the courts — include technology in their definitions of competence in practice, by holding negligent the lawyers who have messed up because of their weak grasp of it.

His weak grasp of evidence law and the Rules of Civil Procedure led to considerable time and effort spent by opposing counsel to address matters (for example, the testimony of «experts» that the court ultimately refused to qualify as experts) that never amounted to anything.

According to the chart above and my weak grasp of statistics, that's when the odds are lowest that you'll die between the day you start shopping for a policy and the day it goes into effect.