Sentence examples for an expansive understanding from inspiring English sources

The 19th-century character model was based on an expansive understanding of free will.

As the road snakes to a ridge, it gives a visitor an expansive understanding of the agreeable geography here, in which the valley runs basically east-west.

It contributes substantial information about an understudied population of tween digital media users and it contributes to an expansive understanding of how play in the digital world extends real-world experiences.

Any responsible curriculum for the study of religion in the 21st century must be guided by two basic principles: first, a clear distinction between the study and the practice of religion, and second, an expansive understanding of what religion is and of the manifold roles it plays in life.

Furthermore, some radical feminists' description of prostitution as "commercial sexual violence" (Jeffreys 1997) reflects an expansive understanding of the economic and other coercive pressures that often compel women's consent to sexual acts in prostitution (even where physical violence does not play a role).

"The work in Shattering the Concrete embodies an expansive understanding of art," writes de Anda in the exhibition catalog.

But you found a lot more too and in every case, what united all the presentations, was an new, expansive understanding of what the "medieval" actually means.

There is a need to develop a more expansive understanding of human beings located culturally, historically, socially and existentially; and to provide a full range of accounts of these beings that link social sciences and humanities disciplines more closely.

It is undeniable that individuals have much broader and more multi-dimensional interests than narrowly self-directed physical ones, and in that sense, it is not unreasonable to have a fairly expansive understanding of "harm" in a public health context.

This program offers participants an opportunity to explore the implications of a more expansive understanding of ourselves in the evolutionary process and our embeddedness in Earth's web of life.

The president's top appointments to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have a more expansive understanding of antitrust, but one that is significantly less aggressive in many areas than those of their predecessors in the Clinton administration.