Sentence examples for a widely understood from inspiring English sources
The indictment charged that Jenkens & Gilchrist reaped $230 million from its tax shelter work, while BDO Seidman made $4 million and "Bank A" — widely understood to be Deutsche Bank — made $99 million.
The term "encounter" is a widely understood euphemism for extra-judicial killings in Pakistan.
Jenner was a shy, insecure child who struggled at school because of severe dyslexia – not a widely understood condition then.
Coats of arms, livery and armour were a widely understood, often fantastical language that communicated identity and position.
Everyone knows what being a bit Bridget Jones means; historian David Starkey compared Edward VI to Adrian Mole; Pooterish is a widely understood adjective.
Perhaps most impressive of all, in a sign of what a widely understood reference point the book has become, it inspired a headline in The Onion: "Copy of 'Eat, Pray, Love' Left on Elliptical".
A year ago, in a gesture widely understood to be a rebuttal to Donald Trump, he went to the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border, and on his flight back to Rome said expressly of Trump, "A person who thinks only of building walls … is not Christian".
Even today Brazilian newspapers are full of advertisements for jobs at private companies that call for a "good appearance," a phrase widely understood to mean that blacks should not apply.
The crowds had turned out in Cairo and other Egyptian cities in response to a call by the defense minister, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, for mass demonstrations he said would give him a "mandate" to fight terrorism, a phrase widely understood to mean crackdowns on the Brotherhood.
But in a filing on Tuesday, DoCoMo recused itself from evaluating bids for AT&T Wireless, a move widely understood to put DoCoMo itself in a position to join the auction.
This may help to explain how a city widely understood to be under the control of a leading international crime group — the U.S. Treasury Department recently labelled Guzmán, who is fifty-five, "the world's most powerful drug trafficker" — can regard itself as a jacaranda-shaded refuge of high culture and legitimate commercial vitality.
