"obtain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "Civilization, therefore, obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city."
- The victors, however, turned on each other and the Pisans obtained mastery over the island at the expense of their erstwhile allies.
- The latter are well brought up, and therefore succeed in obtaining mastery over the men more than in any nation in the world.
- The title is the state award of Albania that was given for the personal merit in Albania to the citizens that worked in their respective artistic field as a rule of no less than ten (10) years obtaining high on-the-job achievements and professional mastery.
- It is strange that superstition should have obtained such mastery over this hard-headed and practical race.
- The fakir works to obtain mastery of the attention (self-mastery) through struggles with the physical body involving difficult physical exercises and postures.
- The explanation contains the critical information necessary for the learner to obtain mastery of the content.
- Miraculously, she survived and was rescued and adopted into a ninja clan where she obtains complete mastery of her adopted weapon, the tetsugen.
- In some texts, they are described as 'one who understands the Dharma by his own efforts, but does not obtain omniscience nor mastery over the Fruits' (phalesu vasībhāvam).
- Arthur arrives just as Friday transfers their beings into the Key; having obtained mastery of the Middle House, he returns their experiences.
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