Sentence examples for as then understood from inspiring English sources

But in some instances, the Supreme Court faced facts where there was no way of using the 14th Amendment (at least as then understood).

Whereas the Carboniferous fossils were similar to those they had seen elsewhere (mainly from the Coal Measures), the stratigraphically higher fauna appeared somewhat transitional to the Triassic succession of Germany as then understood.

During the 1920s and 30s, the first specialized mathematics journal, Fundamenta Mathematicae, was devoted to set theory as then understood (centrally including topology and function theory).

Many supporters felt his views, as then understood, had no place in football  and his appointment also did not sit well with the GMB union, which immediately withdrew its sponsorship  of the club.

Studies of the ribosomal DNA sequences from a wide variety of Agaric fungi have corroborated Kühner and Romagnesi's placement of Rhodotus in the Tricholomataceae as then understood.

Crucially, martial law as then understood was not a form of substantive law, but instead a suspension of the rule of law; it was the replacement of normal statutes with a law based on the whims of the local military commander.

These compounds posed a challenge to chemists as the compounds did not fit with chemical bonding models as they were then understood.

These notions were based to a large degree on the principles of hydrostatics (the study of the pressures of liquids) as they were then understood.

His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.

It provided in more than 800 chapters information on species as they were then understood, common and botanical names, descriptions of habitats, time of flowering, and the "virtues," or uses, of plants of the entire plant kingdom.

Several books of his madrigals and instrumental music were published in his lifetime, and he is said to have been the first to write solo songs (now lost) in imitation of Greek music as it was then understood.