Sentence examples for could only be understood by from inspiring English sources
"I did not have to speak the language to see that a patient's health could only be understood by grappling with the social context in which the patient lived," she said.
He wrote his thesis on the American poet Walt Whitman and his vision of the "Physiological-Spiritual Man" in the modern, secular age, who could only be understood by a physician.
For Bourdieu, the clash between the Algerian peoples and French colonialism could only be understood by constructing the original economic and social structures of the indigenous civilisations, and he chose the Kabyle peoples, the Berbers.
These books gave a vivid picture of a world governed by counter-intuitive fundamental laws, that (as Galileo had famously explained in The Assayer) could only be understood by someone who knew the language in which the laws were written, the language of mathematics.
In the course of their own writings, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would explore how topics as diverse as the development of the nuclear family, the plays of Shakespeare and novels of Honoré de Balzac, the Newtonian revolution in science, and the Protestant Reformation could only be understood by appreciating the material realities behind them.
There are many jokes in this play that could only be understood by someone living in the last couple of decades, but the feeling is 19th-century, and that nostalgia is not one of the many illusions Mr. Long is poking fun at.
For one thing, Pius ruled out a polygenic origin for the human race, signifying that Original Sin, as defined by the Catholic Church, could only be understood in terms of an offense committed by a founding couple, and passed on to all of humanity.
We eventually found that the anomalously high rate of glucose uptake by c4 tumours could only be understood in terms of the classical allosteric activation and inhibition mechanisms by which small-molecule metabolites control the enzymes of the glycolytic pathway.
The approach was informed by a belief that the social reality for our participants could only be understood through their interpretations of their experiences[ 39].
