Sentence examples for be generally understood as from inspiring English sources
Marriage used to be generally understood as an unequal partnership, with the wife being subordinated to her husband, whereas now — at least in law and in most of mainstream culture — marriage is viewed as a partnership of equals.
Institutional logics can be generally understood as "the socially constructed, historical pattern of material practices, assumptions, values, beliefs, and rules by which individuals produce and reproduce their material subsistence, organise time and space, and provide meaning to their social reality" (Thornton and Ocasio 1999, p.804).
From this point of view psychotic passivity experiences can be generally understood as a failure of the causal association between internal representations of action programs and the perception of external changes resulting from those actions.
Jazz improvisation is generally understood as a narrative melodic line composed spontaneously in relation to a song's harmonic structure.
Fiction is a safer place for drawing on nature to illuminate the human condition, for it is generally understood as metaphor rather than recommendation.
At the same time, it is important to note that, whereas in the modern world scriptural myths are generally understood as metaphors, in the ancient world they were accepted as literal statements of fact.
From what we think we know about his family ancestry, however, his Barcid family (if that's even the right name) has been generally understood as descending from Phoenician aristocracy.
The fact that so many readers accepted "The Lottery" as truthful is less astonishing than it now seems, since at the time The New Yorker did not designate its stories as fact or fiction, and the "casuals," or humorous essays, were generally understood as falling somewhere in between.
