To comprehend the process, efforts should be focused on techniques that measure the particle size as well as the control the process.
In New York City the effort has brought together scientists, government agencies and public and private utilities in an effort to comprehend the effects of climate change on a city with a 570-mile coastline and where 8.5 million people live only about 10 feet above sea level.
But it was under the influence of two other professors—Franz Kugler and Leopold von Ranke that his appreciation of ancient and modern history came into balance in his efforts to comprehend the past as a whole.
In my efforts to comprehend the competing story lines about this new breed of woman politician on the scene, I was getting a cacophony of competing arguments in my head.
The foundation, whose website describes the prize as celebrating "no particular faith tradition or notion of God, but rather the quest for progress in humanity's efforts to comprehend the many and diverse manifestations of the Divine," has rebuffed such accusations.
Researchers of pain conditions should include the jaw-face region in their efforts to comprehend the pain patient's case history.
Yet the fact is, without making a thorough effort to comprehend the motives, fears and capabilities of Al Qaeda's militants, we can hardly hope to defeat them.
Juristic "effort" to comprehend the terms of the Sharīʿah is known as ijtihād, and legal theory charts the course that ijtihād must follow.
At first, inspectors from the international atomic agency in Vienna had wide latitude to travel through Iran in an effort to comprehend the depth and breadth of the enrichment project — and assess its true nature, whether for war or peace.
An experimental investigation was carried out in an effort to comprehend the behavior of a bridge girder consisting of a steel tube filled with reinforced concrete and made composite with an overlying concrete deck.
Mr. Raad, whose day job is as assistant professor of art at Cooper Union in Manhattan, wields every contemporary medium at hand -- computer imaging, animation, search engine minutia, photography, film, video and performance -- in an effort to comprehend the disorienting, obliterating effects of extreme physical and psychological violence.
