Sentence examples for existing understanding of from inspiring English sources
He said Nicklinson accepted that "what he is seeking to do is to change the existing understanding of the common law".
When Lucy was discovered, in 1974, she threw out existing understanding of evolution — for those that believe in it, as well as those that don't.
The Iraqi declaration was consistent with our existing understanding of Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear program; however, it did not provide any new information relevant to certain questions that have been outstanding since 1998 -- in particular regarding Iraq's progress prior to 1991 related to weapons design and centrifuge development.
The results of the program also enhanced the existing understanding of fatigue cracking in aluminium alloy 7050-T7451.
If these misconceptions fit with an existing understanding of the world, there can be a resistance to conceptual change (Sinatra et al. 2008).
Hence, philanthropic concepts from the Islamic perspective are similar to the existing understanding of philanthropy in the West which is to support society.
"New incidents were interpreted in terms of the existing understandings of the family dynamics," said Haringey's review.
This article provides an overview of existing understandings of power in the research on biofuels, including positive perceptions that often lead to more optimistic evaluations of biofuels.
The 1990s represented a "turning point for immigration becoming linked into the welfare reform discourse," which combined with existing understandings of the immigrant-as-criminal.
There is a tension inherent in the application of existing understandings of recovery to the personality disorders context in the absence of a well-developed phenomenological literature articulating individual lived experiences of personality disorders.
We propose that existing understandings of triggers to the consultation might be extended to consider how patients and their doctors respond to a history of intermittent rather than persistent symptoms.
