firm grounding

Then you'll be able to get a firm grounding during the time we're docked.

Course work requirements are designed to ensure that firm grounding.

Conducting research requires a firm grounding in the concepts and prior work of a field.

Freud's theory seems from this perspective to need firmer grounding in time and space.

I have a firm grounding of the properties of herbs and their preparation.

These are ideal opportunities for people who wish to enter the industry and gain a firm grounding in clinical research work.

A firm grounding in shared values and a shared vision will increase the likelihood of success.

He continued his education at Cambridge University with a view to acquire a firm grounding in Western philosophy.

From age 11, Roy began working in the family business, founded by his father, and acquired a firm grounding in industry, craftmanship and marketing.

He has remained involved with that part of his heritage, but he also has a firm grounding in the conventions of Western contemporary musical language.

The conductor James Levine can claim, as he does here, that only with a firm grounding in the tradition can one seriously assay the new.

Last year, it was announced his charity would accredit staff who give pupils a firm grounding in literature and history as part of a new reward scheme.

He first studied with Paul Le Flem, who gave him a firm grounding in classical forms of harmony and counterpoint.

One's own consciousness is subject to immanent critique so that when such belief is recovered, it will have a firmer grounding in consciousness.

Magazine and newspaper reviews trace the critical reception of his progress, and the show is given firm grounding in a selection of Mr. Close's prints.

In Fauré's view, his students needed a firm grounding in the basic skills, which he was happy to delegate to his capable assistant André Gedalge.

Tonight I announce the American Competitiveness Initiative, to encourage innovation throughout our economy and to give our nation's children a firm grounding in math and science.

The present approach in American schools of education overemphasizes teaching methods at the expense of firm grounding in areas that really matter - history, English, mathematics, science and foreign languages.

What differentiates these approaches from earlier integrative attempts is a firm grounding in complexity theories and post-normal science (Waltner-Toews, 2004; Waltner-Toews et al., 2008).

Studies at KH were rigorous: the first year consisted of a firm grounding in harmony, counterpoint, instrumentation, aural training, composition and arranging, carried out by a graduated senior student.

To make matters even more confusing, it is assumed all persons of melant'i will have a firm grounding in Liaden heraldry, thus opening up vast possibilities for double-entendre and other pleasantries.

In Tibet, monks who had completed their geshe studies would be invited to join Gyuto or Gyume, another tantric institution, to receive a firm grounding in vajrayana practice.

He insisted that all of his students received not only lectures in engineering principles but also a firm grounding in mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology and the other sciences upon which engineering is based.

Fréjaville theorized that such recognition of similarity is the basis of all identification, and that such idealization and identification provides the son with a firm grounding in his own masculinity.

Alfred S. Posamentier, a math expert who is the dean of education at City College, said the training might be exceptionally difficult since so many city teachers lacked a firm grounding in math.