In some respect this claim even goes beyond John Gerson's thesis, that "signification is not properly or aptly understood except with respect to an intellectual nature that is able to use the sign" (Significatio nec proprie nec convenienter accipitur, nisi per respectum ad naturam intellectualem, quae potest uti signo) (John Gerson, De modis significandi, 1706, 816).
Backstory offers a sort of narrative and juridical jiu-jitsu that relies on conservative values to assert liberal ends; and it's why the notion of Hollywood as an engine of liberalism is utterly apt — as long as that liberalism is aptly defined and understood.
The bleak assessment of the glaciers' retreat comes only months after Nasa launched an urgent six year project called Oceans Melting Greenland, aptly contracted to OMG, to understand the processes that drive the loss of Greenland ice.
I'll never forget that it was in that generous, open space that I started to understand something about tragedy: aptly, given the building, the tragedy of what used to be called the "common man".
For once you understand exactly why a sheltered, impressionable young woman like Desdemona (an aptly credulous-seeming Merritt Janson) would have fallen in love with his storytelling and been emboldened to ask him to woo her.
The nuns are asking for nothing more than the opportunity to confer with Vatican officials and "speak the truth as we understand it about our lives," as Sister Pat Farrell, the leadership conference's president, aptly explained.
However, while there is much rigorous research on deep versus surface approaches to learning (e.g., Trigwell, Prosser, & Waterhouse, 1999), as Woo and Reeves (2007) aptly showed, the meaning of meaningful learning is necessarily relative in that it depends upon how we understand learning itself, as reflected in learning theories.
Santorum, whose name aptly comes from the same Latin root as sanctimonious, went on Glenn Beck's Web-based show with his family and offered this lunacy: "I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college," because colleges are "indoctrination mills" that "harm" the country.
As aptly described by Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office to Combat Domestic Violence, "It's important for people to understand how domestic violence is touching every part of this city".
As aptly noted by Drs. Ziogas and Roukos, the routine use of bevacizumab should be discouraged in the adjuvant or neoadjuvant setting in breast cancer; however, carefully designed research studies should be encouraged to further understand the indications for the optimal use of the antiangiogenic agents.
