Sentence examples for be understood not just from inspiring English sources

A government budget should be understood not just in terms of bookkeeping but also of demand management, national cohesion and productivity growth.

The lawsuit, they say, needs to be understood not just in the context of law, but in the broader history of African-American dispossession.

The first introductory text on a topic which has long been overlooked in the discipline, Film and the Natural Environment argues that the nonhuman world can be understood not just as a theme but as a creative resource available to all filmmakers.

Binational Human Rights examines both well-known and understudied instances of human rights crises in Mexico, arguing that these abuses must be understood not just within the context of Mexican policies but in relation to the actions or inactions of other nations particularly the United States.

She advocates programs that help women develop a perspective from which overcoming addiction can be understood not just as an individual health or will-power problem, but as part of a shared project of personal and community transformation.

Mitch Berman (2011) has argued that retributivism can appropriately be understood not just as having a consequentialist element, but as having an instrumentalist element, namely that punishment is a valuable tool in achieving the suffering that a wrongdoer deserves.

And such plays were understood not just as illustrations of past events, but as ways of comprehending the political present.

It has been understood not just as a good for the men or women involved but for the wider society around them, giving an example of trust, faithfulness and the mutual cultivation of a moral life.

Citizenship is understood not just as a legal status or habitual rule following, but an active reflective moral engagement.

"Health" is understood not just as a right to be healthy, but as a right to control ones own health and body (including reproduction), and be free from interference such as torture or medical experimentation.

Forty years ago, gender violence as a weapon of war was poorly understood, not just in Bangladesh but worldwide," she said.