Sentence examples for capable of understanding that from inspiring English sources

Most Americans seem to be perfectly capable of understanding that deranged, isolated extremists do not act on behalf of the whole religion, just as most understand the difference between people who oppose abortion and people who attack abortion clinics.

Surely Lord Bramall is perfectly capable of understanding that even the most studiously decent of citizens may sometimes be drawn into unpleasant and awful police enquiries through no fault of their own?

I know my son is capable of understanding that and, contrary to depictions in popular culture, that ability is not a rarity or a defiance of his genetic code.

Yes - sometimes because they have been minors and sometimes on the grounds that anorexia is a mental illness and that they are not capable of understanding that not eating will lead to death.

I'm going to try to make sure that you're capable of understanding that business is not really a zero-sum game, even though a lot of people think it is.

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

Nintendo shied away from using the complicated, multifingered gestures that the iPhone is capable of understanding, and that are common in other games, in order to keep a broad appeal.

"Bulimia isn't cool, and it won't get you on stage with your favorite artist... [But] young people who are struggling to figure out their identities are seriously influenced by the things they see their idols do... [and] some of [them] are people who aren't capable of understanding the art that is that is expressed by their idols".

Derek Fisher, head of what was until yesterday the National Basketball Players Association, responded: It even implies that we don't understand or we're not capable of understanding the details that were presented to us in the proposal.

In other words, these instruments are designed so that a deaf audience would be just as capable of understanding the sound that's being made as a hearing person would be.

Boas's view requires the anthropologist to be capable of understanding all factors that might influence the histories of peoples.