How To Use Understand In A Sentence

Luckily, I have a very understanding boss.
Oh, poof! You do not understand a little soldierly enthusiasm.
Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
Frankly I don't understand why most companies don't follow the same policy as franked income in the hands of shareholders is worth a lot more to them than huge piles of franking credits mouldering away in the company's balance sheet.
The production sounds a little soupy here, but I think it really adds to the song if you can understand that.

Words are confusing, but they're nothing compared to non-words, mainly because non-words lead to rash assumptions and misunderstandings.
This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.
An established order of seeing, of understanding, of ruling, is simply exploded - the Modernist spirit asserts itself.
To avoid fattening, unhealthful fats, you need to understand what types of foods they are concealed in.
Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
Adolescence causes the four girls to understand their apartness and question their identities.
For if I pray in an unknown tongue , my spirit prayer, but my understanding is unfruitful.
In Chinas modernization drive, the misunderstanding on "Middlebrow" is not beneficial to the understanding and the promotion of the core ideology of Chinas traditional culture.
Each person makes his or her own decision according to personal perception and understanding.
(Applause) Without boasting, without any kind of immodesty, that is how we Cuban revolutionaries understand our internationalist duty. TRICONTINENTAL CONFERENCE
But I now understand how fragile its mighty wilderness really is.
It is critical to an understanding of deixis to recall that even very ‘local’ elements of context, such as a speaker's own corporeal experience and perceptual field, are susceptible of schematisation.
You have to understand the scale of the problem. The Sun
Knowing and understanding our limitation is very crucial and a significant part of emancipating ourselves from its control.
And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
This will give your small group a more complete understanding of what the original language depicted. Christianity Today
He had a good scientific understanding and quickly dismissed the beast.
Very few of these cases involve plaintiffs afflicted with legitimate disabilities as most of us understand the term.
Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
He had put their objective on a whiteboard: to understand concise writing. Times, Sunday Times
But there was understandable outrage when sundry fund managers and regional stockbrokers were confronted with the hat. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere during the Hangover technology beanfeast, we understand that HP's own demo of Bluetooth was similarly rotten.
Sadly, I must concede, that it was an understandable response in that milieu.
As I understand it, no one took issue with our lateness, and we did put on an application for extension of time in the second one, as I understand it.
Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
It's unavoidable, understandable, and perfectly forgivable under the circumstances.
I personally think a more optimistic outcome is within our grasp as we understand more and more the way the brain works. Times, Sunday Times
But this volume considerably expands our understanding by widening the regional sphere of comparison and by taking on board issues of secrecy, cultural heritage and museology.
An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
Whatever the fate of sense-datum theories might be as general theories of exteroception, their appeal as a model for understanding pains and other intransitive bodily sensations is very strong. Pain
Red cabbage's fresh, raw crunch is a great addition to salads (see today's recipe), though I quite understand that some of you may have been put off by its appearance in mediocre coleslaws dressed in gloopy, cheap mayonnaise, its pigment seeping into the dressing to create a rather unappealing mess. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's red cabbage recipes
As I understand, its the oxidization that is a problem, so if you did what they do with winesavers and the like -- replace oxygen in container with food grade nitrogen, you should slow the process down. The Coffee Geek’s Guide To Storing Beans | Lifehacker Australia
I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down Killing the Buddha
Because there are several layers of appeal he can go through if he does not waive, that is our understanding also. CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2006
Weather radar is a good safety device but not all pilots understand its intricacies. Times, Sunday Times
White says no one could fail to understand the strategy, but is at pains to point out that making more money does not mean losing more jobs - quite the opposite.
I understand that there is a huge upswing in the sales of hair colourants, especially for the younger girls and boys.
She speaks with a thick middle European accent, and she is difficult to understand.
Biden and Mullen do not seem to understand also, that the United States, its Arab allies and all its interests in the Middle East (meaning oil supply) would be "imperiled" when Iran has nuclear weapons. Israelated - English Israel blogs
I don't really understand why the judges felt like it needed to be laced with conceptuality," Mitchell, 32, said. Work of Art's Dusty on Why Jerry Was Wrong and Having His Own Short Shorts
He was quick to learn and was literate in both English and Irish and had a good understanding of the Brehan law.
As an author of a romantic comedy myself, I do understand that it is difficult to make the genre seem fresh after many miserable retreads.
The beauty he has perceived must in accordance with our human needs find expression concretely, because it is only as he manifests himself in forms which we can understand that we are able to recognize him. The Enjoyment of Art
The red notebook, of course, is only half the story, as any sensitive reader will understand.
In an age of change, unchangingness becomes more precious to people than we perhaps understand, even in ourselves. Times, Sunday Times
Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do. A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
The local curate expressed understanding at their sense of loss.
In a previous essay, we saw that a super-majority of evolutionary biologists self-identity as "pure naturalists," providing us good reason to think that a non-teleological prism is used to shape our current mainstream understanding of evolution. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
She understands full well that even when some men are given every option to embrace the role of Mr. Mom, they may still need a push.
True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
Anyone who drives along this road on a regular basis as I do, will fully understand and appreciate what I mean.
His time in the war rose between us like a vaporous cloud that silenced his pain and obscured my ability to understand it.
Cultural misunderstandings do happen. Times, Sunday Times
I don't understand why a ballet company can't perform fresh new material instead of just bringing out the same old warhorses year after year.
I don't want there to be any misunderstanding.
The absence of a clear understanding about those root causes largely explains why several would-be peace agreements ended up dishonoured or discarded.
It was an understandable mistake when the request was made by phone.
Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
Who has the material to survive, people have a dream only talk about life. You have to understand life and life different Animal survival, while others life.
The so-called audience learns about the proposer herself, measures her credibility, considers her ideas, and deepens her understanding of the current exigency as the rhetor sees it.
A number of vitamins, minerals and botanicals have emerged as key players in the bone-building story, and scientists are still working for a better understanding of their roles.
It might seem meshuga to stage a beloved musical in a language that most of the audience won't understand.
His comments need careful consideration, particularly given his deep understanding of commercial cases and his outspoken criticism in some serious fraud cases. Times, Sunday Times
Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand.
Some of you may be surprised to see Mr. Jerrold here in person-in as much as our notice card intimated that he had been "liquidated" - which process we have come to understand in recent years is somewhat of an ordeal. The Present Condition of England
The Sun understands the case could hinge on mobile phone footage of the incident filmed by the men and since seized by cops. The Sun
It was only requisite for my understanding clearly to discern, to be convinced of the insuperability of this obstacle. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
Despite increased understanding of the nature of the disease in general, the factors that contribute to symptomatic destabilization are little studied and much remains conjectural.
They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may li... Etruscan Tarchon and Hittite Tarhun: Crazy or no?
And now that we understand that, it may be possible to engineer novel, rationally-designed biomaterials that can control those interactions.
The mildest critics argued that they were premature and that a decent interval should have been allowed before the struggle to analyse and understand began.
It is important to understand that we are breaking a habit, for we have been conditioned to react in this way.
What needs to be globalised is knowledge and understanding.
We understand that your expertise lies in your core business, not necessarily in hard money lending.
Conclusion Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity.
One can understand the rationale behind all of this. Times, Sunday Times
But, James, isn't the title indicative of "right" interpretation according to monotheistic understanding in opposition to Trinitarian understanding? and human moral development? Gratitude Mingled with Theological Concern
I think the term comprehension still has great relevance because it is a reminder that as readers, viewers and web surfers we need to be able to understand, interpret, appreciate and critique what we read, view, hear and even … Literacy News – 162th Edition « News « Literacy News
T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding. Mail Call
Collectively, the papers make a significant contribution to our understanding of science and cognition.
Only a feat of brilliant decipherment by Jean-François Champollion, working in the 1820s, allowed us to understand ancient Egypt again in its own terms. Beyond the Pharaohs
Once facility executives understand actual energy consumption, they can begin benchmarking their buildings against their competitors and even their own real estate.
We fully support residents action against the plans, which we understand are recommended for rejection by the CMBC Officers.
If you don't understand then you're duller than I thought.
We understand that this equipment should never be used by people without Medical training and was therefore dangerous and totally useless in punts and small boats.
The tactful use of his skills and a clear understanding of the game have made this young man an instant favourite with the crowds in an alien land.
The media's fixation with what happens next was completely understandable.
I'm not sure that I understand. Go over it again.
Third, "patronizing" is an understandable complaint but I do have honest respect and admiration for most people at TT. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
But make sure you spell the way out to mc very clearly because otherwise I shan't understand. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
I cannot understand how such an inept man can be elected head of the world's most powerful country.
And that's one of the keys to understanding the fulfillment of future prophecies.
Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things. Muhammad Ali
I understand the point of a fraternity is to foster brotherhood. YES!
It is hard for the able-bodied to understand the difficulties that disabled people encounter in their daily lives.
But make sure you spell the way out to mc very clearly because otherwise I shan't understand. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
We might describe feminism as a political project to understand and, therefore, to change women's inequality, exploitation, or oppression.
France and the U.S. have cooperated in space programs that have resulted in significant advancements in the understanding of such phenomena as El Niño, climate change, and seismology.
Often investigating history will allow us to understand why some puzzling synchronic details are the way they are.
Still and all, when I say there is something "insidious" about the taste of Dutch Coca-Cola she hs to ask what insidious means -- she knows what it means, but she just has to check, because she doesn't understand why I would choose such a word -- I revised to "malevolent" -- to describe such a benign thing. Evolver Diary Entry
In classical episteme, the understanding of the same tragedy category is different to some extent because of in different time and space, but they are similar on the whole.
Firman said the dispute was triggered by a minor misunderstanding between a member of the police's Mobile Brigade and a group of marines.
Many hospitals, for instance, make a professional available to go over the records with the patient, who might not understand the medical jargon therein.
And when thou hast done it, to let me understand what he saith, that I may dye the more contentedly, and disburdened of so heavy an oppression, the onely comfort to a parting spirit: and so she ceased, her teares flowing forth abundantly. The Decameron
We will have erected barriers to understanding and entrenched a division among people.
The problem is called economic reductionism - seeing economic interests at all times and in every case as being the only phenomenon necessary to understand political decisions.
It takes time to foster a creative work environment and to understand how creativity can bring you tangible benefits. Times, Sunday Times
Even though this denial has to some extent to do with Habermas’s understandable fight with the ghost of Heidegger, he seems now to turn this into a new orthodoxy, thereby showing how critical theory is incapable of critiquing its very foundational presuppositions such as valorization of rational argumentations, performative competence, validity claims and linguistic intersubjectivity instead of emotional intersubjectivity Craib, 1998. Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond
He reiterates the issues at the end of each chapter, with a brief summation of the argument, thus giving the reader a basic understanding of each author's particular intention.
Read books, newspapers, and online content from both political persuasions to be certain you fully understand the issues at hand.
Any scholar wishing to understand the future lawmaking challenges facing this African state would be well-advised to read this book.
You have to be able to describe things in a form that the end user can understand.
Teenagers don't seem to understand that they don't have to actively misbehave to be disagreeable to older people.
I think he gave very fair reasons and I fully understand them, I've got two young kiddies myself.
Her ability to understand, to perceive the nature of the truth was what was being tested.
But then it helps you to understand all this darkness and negativity and you begin to confront and deal with it. Times, Sunday Times
Her accent is so thick you could cut it with a knife— I can hardly understand a word she says.
This study offers new perspectives to clarifying our understanding of the specific phenotypes of bacterial biofilms and thus enables control of their development.
Along with the artist's renderings of badgers, each item is illustrated with easy to understand icons referencing water resistance, biodegradability (meaning you can go into a lake or ocean without harming the aquatic life), animal testing (none), and UVA rating. Marcia G. Yerman: Sunscreen Protection and Nail Polish: A Green Approach
It will help you understand your tax responsibilities as a newly selfemployed person and remind you of responsibilities that you might not otherwise know about. Times, Sunday Times
A dressmaker understands the making and structure of a garment, whereas a designer is more focused on its appearance. Times, Sunday Times
As with this hero, so with others, till Peggy came to look forward, actually, to the history hour; which shows what a teacher can do when she understands her girls, and knows enough to call Plutarch and his peers (if any!) to aid her in her task. Peggy
The show cloaks itself in wholesome, old-fashioned japery with its broad misunderstandings ("I said ghosts, not goats!") and knowing winks at Hi-de-Hi! and Frank Spencer, and the way Miranda's mother (Patricia Hodge) flits in and out as if through a time portal to a 1950s Whitehall farce. Rewind TV: Miranda; The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret; Accused: Willy's Story; Garrow's Law
Graduation is a time for rejoining and is also a time for reflection.You will be going out into the world to make a career for yourself.Wish you well in all your understandings and hope that you will find your career a source of great joy and happiness.
As to the money raised by local subscription, no definite apportionment has yet been made but we understand that Woodhouse will receive a good round sum.
Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.
Quite the reverse, these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble.
They argue that as a tool of understanding rather than explanation, activity theory is supported primarily by means of idiographic, qualitative, and/or case studies.
The organisation also campaigns to raise awareness and understanding of mental health conditions and improve services. The Sun
Recognition is a prerequisite to understanding.
Health and understanding are the two great blessing of life.
I wanted to convey a similar feeling for our progress toward a complete understanding of the laws that govern the universe.
I couldn't understand why as I had not half an hour earlier fettled it.
I am not to learne, that these accidents by thee related, may happen to fooles, who are voide of understanding or shame: but such as are wise, and endued with vertue, have alwayes such a precious esteeme of their honour, that they wil containe those principles of constancie, which men are meerely carelesse of, and I justifie my wife to be one of them. The Decameron
As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.
Feminist folkloristics, as developed in the United States and Canada, understands gender as a fundamentally sociocultural construct.
It is uncharacteristically diligent of a minister to seek precisely to understand what money spent will accomplish.
The only character who sees through the subterfuge is the ex-CIA agent, abandoned by his country, whose life of dirty deeds on behalf of The Company prepares him alone to understand his role and dig his way out. Hullabaloo
The importance of understanding the factors that play a part in EI formation and composition is critical to EI research.
Who knows, after a few steins you may even be able to understand what he's growling about.
It sure would bring a new level of understanding to our world of intoleration. Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
Worries about cutbacks in government spending are understandable. Times, Sunday Times
There's something else afoot, something I will never understand or comprehend.
This posting is about intercommunication among Zapoteco villagers in Oaxaca State and the notion that communications among various villages can be improved by foreigners introducing radio signal interrelationships to, supposedly, improve inter-village understanding and, perhaps, harmony. Radio stations in Oaxaca
As for evolution, the "crossbreed" scenario only works for those who don't quite understand evolution or genetic mapping ... Comic Book Resources
It aims to give smokers a proper understanding of nicotine addiction and withdrawal symptoms. Times, Sunday Times
What I fail to understand is, if sitting in front of the telly getting bladdered and shoving kettle chips down our gullets is so good for the economy, why don't we all do it all the time? Thai buffalo racing gives royal wedding sycophancy a run for its money | Martin Kelner
There are worries that cultural misunderstandings can lead to lost sales. Times, Sunday Times
Through such models, some understanding can be gained of the way in which many settlements formerly operated in their local landscape.
However, to understand is not to acquiesce in or accept these developments.
Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with.
To understand this, you have to turn the clock back and take a look at our ancient ancestors. The Sun
The use of statistics to understand voting patterns only scratches the surface of the possible uses of statistical information by historians. A Short Guide to Writing About History
My unmarried survey respondents seem to understand that friendship is the basis of a good marriage even as they hold out for chemistry and thunderbolts and soulmates.
While sociologists do not fully understand these processes, they do know that they are in large part a result of globalization. Sociology
In fact you appear to have to be very advanced in magical theory in order to understand most of the obscure written references about it.
Q As I understand it, the legislation will also call for an independent study of the taggant issue. Press Briefing By Mary Ellen Glynn
Many mathematicians are musical and many musicians have good intuitive understanding of maths. Times, Sunday Times
The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertorical as determined by these very laws of the understanding, consequently as affirming a priori, and in this manner it expresses logical necessity. The Critique of Pure Reason
His fierce loyalty to his lead actor is understandable. Times, Sunday Times
The understanding that these diseases are genetic in origin, and different, has for the first time given humanity powerful tools with which to beat them. Times, Sunday Times
Understanding these rare molecules will help chemists to find out what is achievable.
The audio is quite good for a mono track, with dialogue clear and easy to understand.
I've read the whole book from beginning to end and still can't understand it.
However, I still cannot understand or rationalise the distressing sequence of events that followed his death.
If you understand the value of love and love you have given me I have to wait for the future.
It is beyond any understanding how he could have been caught up in all of this.
And I do understand there is multipartisan support for both keeping Omar away, and also bringing him back. The Omar Khadr Conundrum « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Such statistics aid our understanding of population movements but they mask the bewildering complexity that was the reality of the situation.
I understand that the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to handle the ball.
To be a successful hacker you must understand what computer systems are used by the target company and how they are used. Corporate Cloak and Dagger
You're so good with people today and clear up any kind of misunderstanding - and then get on with enjoying all the festivities. The Sun
She added'I think it will give the public quite a good understanding. Times, Sunday Times
Wisdom and understanding have always been powerful and effective weapons against a poor belief/approach.
The first is the battle to win a deeper public understanding. Times, Sunday Times
It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand. Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
My understanding (let alone expertise) in such fields is nonexistent and some of my opinions others on this site find wrong-headed.
a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: 6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
This is described as naturalism - the artist paints with an untrained mind, and portrays things in the way that he understands and perceives them.
We bought the cupboard on the understanding that we could return it if it wasn't suitable.
There is an application for extension of time which I understand is not opposed.
Logging on gives you apage full of little hand grenades: impossible-to-understand, context-free sentences that take five minutes of research to unravel and which then turn out to be stupid, irrelevant, or pertaining to the television series Battlestar Galactica. Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Openly Twitter-Doubting
I can understand a responsible Liberal minister deciding, ATC, not to open this can, but not without first tipping off the PM and probably not without tipping off the priviest part of the privy council the part that handles national security issues. Kory Teneycke, meet my tire iron.
She offered Billy a clear route of escape from his drab existence, even if was hard to understand how she could really be interested in him.
There has been significant progress in in understanding the HIV infection.
Brasyl isn't just a parallel dimensions story, it tackles big issues like free will and the heat death of the universe and places them in intensely personal stories, which serves to humanize these ideas and make them easier to understand. REVIEW: Brasyl by Ian McDonald
Their refusal to cooperate is perfectly/completely understandable, considering the circumstances.
It perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors eating, brandy drinking supporter when, in fact, our supporters are highly intelligent with a keen understanding of the game.
String theory is a complete description of reality even though we don't understand its predictions in some extreme situations, especially those that have something to do with the ultratiny expanding universe. The Reference Frame
On the other hand, he is fond of the kind of design analysis that leaves the uninitiated wishing he would speak in plain English, in terms the layman can understand.
Today is your birthday,my darling.I'd like to express my heartfelt thanks for what you have done.Thank you for your cares and understanding and the at support you offer me when I need it.A whole of love to my dear husband.
Well, what less would you expect of a man who studied English literature to ‘understand lyric better’?

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