Sentence examples for comprehend the extent from inspiring English sources

But if the Council does not always seem to fully comprehend the extent of its powers, there is at least one reason: those powers are fairly new.

The diplomats of Turtle Bay, he says, "don't fully comprehend the extent of the train wreck in which the Security Council has been involved".

What happened in New Orleans is a catastrophe of so large a scale, it is difficult to comprehend the extent of the upheaval.

Chief executives rarely admit to being dumbfounded by their companies' performance, but Mr Cook said it was "hard to comprehend" the extent of the interest in Apple's products.

Although the Swiss government appears to have quickly understood the possible repercussions of the Falciani list, the management at H.S.B.C. was slow to comprehend the extent of its predicament.

But the point stands: the same infrastructure that allows government agencies to capture data on any digitally connected person, also allowed Snowden to comprehend the extent of  the NSA's surveillance, and take away enough evidence to put that knowledge in the public domain.

Like many revolutionaries, he perhaps did not comprehend the full extent of what he had helped to unleash.

But I also know that I shall never really comprehend the full extent of the damage done to our illusions by Flaubert's great book.

By Moore and Gerald Jonas The New Yorker, December 28, 1963 P. 27 The following essay was written as a disciplinary lesson by a fifth-grade student who had misbehaved on a field trip to the United Nations and who now seems to comprehend the full extent of his crimes: "I should not talk loud or if the guide says not to talk don't talk.

The following essay was written as a disciplinary lesson by a fifth-grade student who had misbehaved on a field trip to the United Nations and who now seems to comprehend the full extent of his crimes: "I should not talk loud or if the guide says not to talk don't talk.

Mr. Iksanov said he suspected that the goal of the attack on Mr. Filin was to destabilize the theater, which has no security service since "we are neither a military organization nor a business structure," and added that "psychologically, even we don't really comprehend the entire extent of possible risks".