I suppose that's firsthand.

I'm sure. I got it firsthand.

I've seen this firsthand over and over again.

I learned this firsthand with my next adventure.

by someone with firsthand knowledge of the hat company's operations.

I experienced this firsthand as a high school student in Uganda.

Workers witness firsthand the environmental costs of current patterns of development.

As we know from firsthand experience, that is not an easy task.

I experienced this firsthand myself when I graduated from Barnard College in 2002.

His conclusions were based upon information obtained from a number of sources, including firsthand reports.

I've seen his report, of course but there are a few things I'd like to get firsthand.

Now, I could tell you what these four types of strength are, but I'd rather you experience them firsthand.

And I experienced this firsthand when I was put on trial in 2005 for the words my fictional characters uttered in a novel.

So I can tell you firsthand what it was like to have access to this leak. It was amazing. I mean, it was amazing.

I was able to see that in a firsthand way, when I went to beautiful Dong village, in Guizhou, the poorest province of China.

Mr. SULAIMAN (Syrian Arab Republic) said that it was important for the Committee to learn firsthand about the current relations between staff and management.

CH I only wish that some of those musicians were here with us today, so you could see at firsthand how utterly extraordinary they are.

We have heard firsthand from a number of speakers today about how important it is to include women at all stages of the peace process.

Well, I have the following from a firsthand observer, who told me this about 35 years ago, when I was thinking about these things for some research project of mine.

But allow me as someone who comes from the business sector and understands the nature of business, with firsthand experience in its ups and downs to offer some brief thoughts.

I have just returned from Darfur, where I had the chance to witness firsthand the situation, which I discussed with the citizens and the officials in the different states of Darfur.

Such organizations are actively involved in conflict prevention, based on a series of assets such as firsthand knowledge of the situation on the ground and unhindered contacts with the relevant players.

After his father was purged by Mao Zedong, he went to work in the countryside, even before the 1966 1976 Cultural Revolution, experiencing firsthand all of the hardships that many of his generation endured. Having risen to the top, he feels no sense of entitlement.

I met with the representatives of the mission deployed there the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and the troop contributing countries, as well as military commanders, in order to be apprised firsthand of the worrisome situation that is developing along the border.

On the contrary, developing and enacting financial regulation must be a gradual process, shaped by both existing knowledge and firsthand experience. After all, no financial market is either completely open or completely closed forever the degree of openness at a given moment depends on policy choices.

After all, he hardly can be said to have led a charmed life. After his father was purged by Mao Zedong, he went to work in the countryside, even before the 1966 1976 Cultural Revolution, experiencing firsthand all of the hardships that many of his generation endured.

Having accompanied the Secretary General during his visit to Baghdad on 12 November, I am pleased to be able to brief the Council today on the work of our mission and to share some firsthand impressions of the challenges that the United Nations faces in Iraq as we move into 2006.

But the Olympics will also bring intense international scrutiny of China s weaknesses at a delicate moment in the country s development. The world already knows of China s success and its attractiveness as a destination for foreign investment, but few outsiders have seen firsthand the steep price the country is paying for its new prosperity.

BRUSSELS Many Europeans feel like their countries are under assault, as huge numbers of migrants flow across their borders. Whether they are being exposed to refugees firsthand, or just seeing images of them splashed across newspaper pages, Europeans are well aware of the vast numbers of desperate people trying to enter European Union territory by any means possible.

As Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, I have seen firsthand the devastation and heartbreak caused by disasters around the world. Since the beginning of the century, more than a million people have died in storms like Hagupit and other major disasters, such as the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with economic damage totaling nearly 2 trillion.

The new governor of the Bank of Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, comes with a wealth of experience gained in the finance ministry, and then as President of the Asian Development Bank. During the East Asia crisis of the late 1990 s, he saw firsthand the failure of the conventional wisdom pushed by the US Treasury and the International Monetary Fund.

On the basis of an evaluation of the first fellowship programme, the next cycle of the fellowship programme in 1996 97 will focus not only on studies to be carried out within the Division, but also on firsthand experience in institutions such as national research institutes of various countries, in order to allow for an exchange of experiences.

The report submitted to us by the Committee is clear and precise. It is very important to promote its activities by means, among other things, of holding seminars on decolonization issues and by sending visiting missions to the Non Self Governing Territories, making it possible to obtain firsthand information concerning the real state of affairs there.

As the number of people who have witnessed firsthand the effects of measles and other childhood diseases such as mumps, rubella, polio, and whooping cough has declined, so has society s commitment to keeping them away. Even after panicked claims that vaccines cause visible conditions like autism were proved to be nonsense, they remain more compelling than the threat of a disease that people have never seen or do not remember.