Sentence examples for cannot understand something from inspiring English sources

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A sceptic might argue that society cannot understand something it does not know about.

Yet I have always thought it rather trite when it is said that a person cannot understand something because they do not have direct experience of it or because their cultural background precludes the possibility.

On Rosneft's dubious legal history, F&C's Karina Litvack said: 'We don't pretend to understand it, and if we cannot understand something, we won't invest in it.' I doubt that the rest of the City will adopt such a squeaky-clean stance when offered the chance to put their money in Rosneft.

"I cannot understand something like that can even happen in this country," Eibschitz-Tsimhoni told Fox 2. "I want them back home".

"I love them and miss them". "I cannot understand something like that can even happen in this country," Eibschitz-Tsimhoni told Fox 2. "I want them back home". Outrage appears to be growing as news of the punishment spreads.

If you cannot understand something, it's usually with good reason.

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One of the concepts emphasized in class this week was "thick description" – the idea that any given cultural act or object is part of a complex web of meaning, where you cannot begin to understand something without exploring the context and underlying connotations.

IT IS hard to know which is worse: an administration that cannot understand that something is wrong, or one that grasps the problem but thinks it can fiddle its way through.

The truth is that while teens may be able to flip through devices with an ease that moms and dads can't, parents' greater brain development allows them to understand something teens cannot: how the overuse of gaming, social media, and texting pulls kids away from family and a focus on school.

But a simple act of understanding, by which we simply understand something without thinking it to be somehow, that is, without attributing anything to it, cannot be false.

You understand something that your mother, whose brain has been affected by a stroke, cannot understand.

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