Sentence examples for could be understood only from inspiring English sources

But while the novel could be understood only if a dictionary was provided, for the music no dictionary is necessary.

Realizing that discontinuous variation could be understood only after something was known about the inheritance of traits, Bateson began work on the experimental breeding of plants and animals.

Trilling's arguments rested on the confident assumption that the human condition, in all its complexity, could be understood only with the aid of great literature.

By that, Ms. White said, he meant that the complexities of ancient societies could be understood only by exploring their relationships across distances and over time.

Instead, he said, the show was about softening the silhouette with the pants and with fabrics whose essence could be understood only by touch.

For many journalists who covered Vietnam and subsequently wrote books about the war, the experience could be understood only as a hallucinogenic nightmare, and they described it in gonzo prose to match.

The State's Supreme Court ruled that, in this context, the question, "Is this your answer?" could reasonably be understood only as asking each juror "Is this your own individual answer?" 331 N.C., at 627, 418 S.E.2d at 173.

In an office suite decorated with photographs of Ferrari's Grand Prix victories and a tapestry of the Italian flag, he said that Ferrari, its cars and its racing could not be understood only in terms of their technical excellence.

This relationship could be understood not only competitively but also complimentarily, when the economic rationale and systems theory are being regarded as analytical tools that can be applied in parallel.

Even as many employees left or were laid off in recent months, others had to sort through audit work papers and other client files and make sure that they could be understood not only by another auditor but also by the operator of a document storage center, said Lisa T. Fair, a former Andersen partner in Atlanta who now works for Deloitte & Touche.

For me 'theory' could be understood fully only when it was taken as specifically relevant to the immediate context of its origin.