Sentence examples for at first understood from inspiring English sources

In the beginning, the results were sometimes disappointing, but this was because it was not at first understood that not only diseased trees but all elm wood in which the beetles might breed must be destroyed.

As the Yale legal scholar Reva B. Siegel argued in a brilliant Harvard Law Review article called "She the People," the Court at first understood the Nineteenth Amendment as making a foundational change by providing grounds for countering discrimination on the basis of sex.

Furthermore, there has been selection for the active state of the IAP, because the obese yellow phenotype that is the result of IAP activity was for most of this time the trait of interest, and the epigenetic basis of the phenotypic variation was not at first understood [36], [37].

The children he takes on appear articulate and almost eerily well-behaved and Pierre cannot at first understand why they are regarded with such unease by the rest of the staff.

There is a terrifying blizzard that has been foreshadowed in the opening scenes and where a single flake of snow suddenly causes the men to panic, except for William who doesn't at first understand the danger that snowflake portends – he is initially delighted by it; and a terrible accident occurs as the men try to cross a river.

Wrapped in my own woes, I didn't at first understand why these rather decent-looking people were sleeping, eating and camping under the blasting August sun, next to the Belgrade bus and railway station.

Toumani grew speaking Eastern Armenian as opposed to Western Armenian like most Armenian-Americans: one dialect's "t" is another's "d" for example, so that when she heard the term "Hai Tad" ("Armenian Cause") at camp she didn't at first understand that it meant "Hai Dat," as Iranian-Armenians pronounce it.

These questions can assist in establishing the Design Quality Criteria so it is important to walk the client through this list of questions, even if the client might not at first understand the purpose or see the need for this exercise.

He was sent there aged six and ran away at 16. Was it at school he first understood that the world was unjust?

To understand what happens at age 27 we must first understand 29.

I don't think at first they understood what we were trying to do.