(n.) The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
(n.) Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
(n.) Contest for superiority.
(n.) A masterly operation; a feat.
(n.) Specifically, the philosopher's stone.
(n.) The act process of mastering; the state of having mastered.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
(2) The level of competency in the diagnosis and treatment of common and emergency disorders needed by nonophthalmologists is assessed and then translated into explicit objectives that specify the levels of mastery to be learned.
(3) But against the backdrop of centuries of “struggle for mastery” in Europe they remain remarkable.
(4) Ideas for further research relating humor to social competence, social cognition, and mastery motivation are discussed.
(5) In Study 3, three forms of experimenter-guided mastery imagery reduced AIDS social anxiety and increased AIDS altruism.
(6) Somewhat more children showed semantic mastery for the warn colors, orange and red, than for the cool colors, blue and green.
(7) The effects of mastery as a mediator of coping and stress are discussed, as well as the advisability of incorporating treatments that specifically address feelings of lack of control over stressful events into chronic pain programs, especially when marital problems are identified.
(8) Also, its relationship to two factors of mental health reported by participants in a multisession experimental intervention to increase personal control and mastery was assessed.
(9) The authors present the results of a one-year study showing equivalent mastery of basic psychiatric knowledge and skills and equally favorable student reactions after psychiatry clerkships on a consultation-liaison service and on other more traditional psychiatry services.
(10) Eventual mastery of the burdensome experience involves reorganization of the individual's "assumptive world," namely of his intrapsychic maps of external reality and his internal system for guiding and motivating his behavior, which have been disorganized by the loss of their anchorage in the ruptured attachment.
(11) These patients may experience delayed mastery of developmental tasks, intimacy, and independence and may have long-term psychological sequelae.
(12) It beat shows with higher ratings, perhaps reflecting that its young fan base had better mastery of the text and online voting.
(13) The occupational adaptation practice model emphasizes the creation of a therapeutic climate, the use of occupational activity, and the importance of relative mastery.
(14) He explores different meanings and arguments on both sides of the controversy and attempts to identify three therapeutic change agents that all schools of therapy share as the basis of their different techniques: affective experiencing, cognitive mastery, and behavioral regulation.
(15) For many items, parents reported earlier skill mastery, but parental and professional estimates eventually converged during adolescence.
(16) Mastery modeling enhanced perceived coping and cognitive control efficacy, decreased perceived vulnerability to assault, and reduced the incidence of intrusive negative thinking and anxiety arousal.
(17) It is provisionally suggested that enhancement of the perseveration represents an innate response to stressful stimuli, but as animals learn mastery over the response contingencies, the persistence in adopting such a response strategy wanes.
(18) Although one response is a paranoidlike reaction, aggression is also displayed directly in an attempt at mastery of the overwhelming frustration and life-threatening aspects of the ghetto.
(19) Power and achievement characteristics reported by the protege to be very important included mastery of concepts and ideas (55.2 per cent) and capacity to work hard (52.1 per cent).
(20) For example, principles of mastery learning, competency-based instruction, performance objectives, a systems approach to instructional design, and the evaluation of instruction as well as the instructional program should help ensure meaningful, relevant training and appropriate, effective instruction.
Supremacy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being supreme, or in the highest station of power; highest or supreme authority or power; as, the supremacy of a king or a parliament.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(2) In India, though, the industry – built on sex, race and class supremacy – is not only legal but estimated to be worth more than $1bn (£690m) a year.
(3) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(4) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
(5) Combine that with the child sexual abuse scandals that began to surface in the 1980s – and the Vatican's reaction to those scandals – says Woodhead, and you begin to see a slow dissolution of the church's moral supremacy.
(6) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
(7) Top floor: a roomful of sombre youths vying for individual supremacy using some form of networked arcade strategy game that uses collectible cards.
(8) Over the past decade, several new treatment alternatives have evolved that challenge the supremacy of traditional surgical cholecystectomy.
(9) "The intelligence system of the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved a remarkable triumph and intelligence supremacy over the Zionist regime's [Israeli's] espionage system and we succeeded in identifying enemy's elements," Moslehi was quoted by the semi-official Fars news agency as saying.
(10) Those who tell you the left has to somehow “reconnect” with people whose minds are full of white supremacy and misogyny must finish the sentence.
(11) His aim, the court heard, was “the creation of an international Aryan group who would establish white supremacy in white countries”.
(12) Students cited far less visible grievances, for example a lack of “serious study into the implications of racism, white supremacy, and imperialism” in the law curriculum, and the lack of a diversity & inclusion office among their complaints.
(13) Perversely, having Barack Obama in the White House seemingly helps perpetuate white supremacy’s continued existence, both by highlighting that individual people of color can attain great heights, and by providing a focal point for anecdotal, individual acts of racial oppression.
(14) The margin of supremacy over the rest this term means they could play in flip-flops for half of their remaining Ligue 1 games and still win the league comfortably .
(15) It is timely.” Tarantino has also spoken about the issue of white supremacy being important in the film, a phrase he has recently used when discussing the use of violence against unarmed black victims of police brutality.
(16) The general supremacy of classical theory of balanced nutrition entailed the tendency to remove ballast substances from food products.
(17) Would it be fair to say that he believes in the supremacy of paint?
(18) Such was the supremacy that Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane and Aaron Lennon could all be substituted well before the close.
(19) Only the flowering of the operative medicine compelled the internal medicine towards the end of the 19th century to give the supremacy over to surgery, because only this part of medicine was able to remove the causes of the disease.
(20) Both main parties do not think to question the supremacy of supposed growth and the idea that national "prosperity" must be king.