Sentence examples for could have grasped from inspiring English sources
If there was anyone in the past who could have grasped what renaissance polyphony was capable of, it was him.
"There were lots of ways he could have grasped hold of it and used the fact that we had Republican support for it — and even conservative Republicans' support — without completely walking away from it," Mr. Bowles said.
A few years ago, the thought that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey could have grasped the eloquence of Mr. Calatrava's idiom would have seemed almost absurd.
Still others thought the voters were merely taking the chance to bash unpopular national governments.What seems certain is that the naysayers were not rejecting the EU constitution as such: few could have mastered such a complex text, and fewer still could have grasped how it differed from existing European treaties.
It hints at a secret that no Christian of Pico's day could have grasped: that Moses himself, the author of the creation story, had passed through 49 Gates of Understanding 7 × 7 on his way to the fiftieth, the supreme and final Gate to union with God.
I could have grasped a teachable moment in the importance of community connection and informed opinion.
Western Union could not have foreseen the Internet, but it could've grasped it.
What he could not have grasped, without carefully reading through the work, was that he was unleashing something that threatened the whole structure of his intellectual universe.
But Nathan Lewin, a prominent Washington defense lawyer, said he expected lawyers for Mr. Walker to argue that after the chaos of Afghanistan, the injured Mr. Walker could not have grasped the implications of declining a lawyer.
I was, however, acutely aware of how much more of the subplots I understood as an adult than I could possibly have grasped as a naive teenager.
They have been helped to an extent by unguarded statements from MPs who should know better or, at least, show have grasped that their words could be twisted.
