1.   Longtime Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin was quick to absorb the lesson.

2.   And third, poorer countries were able to absorb the lessons learned by rich countries, he said.

3.   Absorbing the lessons of the artists around one continues the fine-tuning.

4.   After absorbing the lessons of the pond, and the community taking shape by its shores, Hirsch begins to take regular, rambling voyages out.

5.   But because the country had been conditioned for so long to hate and fear New York as superior, it did not completely absorb the lesson until last week.

6.   But if her work is derivative, she absorbed the lessons well.

7.   But others absorbed the lessons of their predecessors.

8.   Clearly she had absorbed some lessons from her old boyfriend, the operator.

9.   Godfrey stayed at the Cordon Bleu for one month, long enough to absorb essential lessons about quality ingredients, freshness and seasonality.

10.   Green has fully absorbed the lesson of the Rolling Stones, having already run twice for the Senate and lost.