This is not war as we knew it, nor government as we once understood it, nor are these elections as we once imagined them, nor is this democracy as it used to be conceived of, nor is this journalism of a kind ever taught in a journalism school.
Nearly half of the American economy is now in financial services — an industry without a product, as "product" was once understood — and many people who have made their fortune in finance are looking for long-term investments in tangible property.
Recently a new concept disease of axSpA, which was once understood as an early stage of AS, has not necessarily been interpreted as the same entity as AS by some researchers; this is because the gender ratios were different between axSpA and AS [ 20, 46, 47], and a number of studies demonstrate that AS and axSpA differ in their genetic property (HLA-B27 typing) [ 46].
As Pedro Almodóvar knows and as Ms. Seidelman herself once understood -- for instance in "Desperately Seeking Susan" -- farce is nothing more than melodrama speeded up and turned on its head.
But they were recognizably not in moods as we once understand moods to be, and I figured it out that we really had entered the smorgasbord era of drugs, which is actually kind of interesting and not necessarily a bad thing.
Medicine was once understood as a moral profession, with physicians as paladins against disease.
In addition, names may cease to be understood as a result of language change; e.g., the place-name Birmingham was understandable in Old English as "habitation of Biorma's people," and the originally Germanic name Gerard was once understood as "strong spear" (Ger-hardo).
The band was once understood as jazz musicians breaking out of traditional roles and taking the next evolutionary step.
The concept was once understood as rescue from eternal damnation, but in the Age of Anxiety salvation amounts to rescue from meaninglessness.
Once understood as products of bias rather than biology, disabled people's disadvantages can be remedied through the pursuit of justice to reform the practices that oppress them.
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