Sentence examples for and actually understanding from inspiring English sources

"I used it maybe flippantly, maybe thinking it was banter, but it was only by awareness and interaction and actually understanding the effect and power of the words that I was using on someone who is homosexual that I got an understanding and started to address my base-level language use.

So it's that fighting constantly internally that yes, it's wonderful, but there is risk … Another thing that's helped me a lot to decide was the session they had … sort of seminar, was seeing the diagrams, seeing the appliances that would be installed and actually understanding the process.

Reading the Holy Bible and actually understanding it can give you real self esteem.

So when there's a video to go along with it and people actually understanding that this is what they are listening to and this is what it is, it actually makes a difference.

In another office, the Afghan staff struggled to use PowerPoint on their computers, spending more time adding sound effects and drawings than actually understanding the operation.

Unfortunately, discussion about conflict often feeds on the difficulty and violence without actually understanding anything about the nature of the conflict itself.

Many K-12 IT departments today make decisions and write policies about blocking and filtering social media and other Web 2.0 technologies without actually understanding how these tools work and how they can be leveraged to improve educational outcomes.

He says: "If we're really serious about teaching green issues, not just climate change and energy consumption, but actually understanding the whole process of how carbon fuels our transport systems which bring us food from all over the world, particularly in the winter, then they are not going to make considered choices in what they eat and what they buy.

This customer service representative is actually understanding and helpful -- but only because she makes false promises.

They wanted to seem like they were doing something, without actually understanding and determining whether their action was effective, necessary or counterproductive.

While this might seem scary, you'll eventually go from getting to know someone to actually understanding and caring for the person.