Sentence examples for first understandings from inspiring English sources

Re "More Over, Dr. Phil, Freud is Back": Our first understandings of the world, including other people's expectations and our own wishes and desires, are formulated in infancy and early childhood.

You cannot begin to understand modern geopolitics without first understanding its intricacies and its aftermath.

You cannot understand the modern world without first understanding the catastrophe that was the First World War.

To understand a thinker's answers required first understanding the questions and the conditions in which they arose.

Dr. Logsdon says that the key to preventing post-gala violence is "first understanding its root causes".

He realises that for a brief instant he has "been real - been without first understanding how to try to be".

"I was living in a little town in Connecticut, and that was my first understanding of New York City," she said yesterday.

IT IS a fair bet that many readers of this newspaper gained their first understanding of capitalism from playing Monopoly.

It is impossible to speak knowledgeably about Renaissance science without first understanding the Renaissance concept of art.

"It was working in Brixton market, that was my real first understanding of theatre, just the characters you met and stories you heard".

When I was first understanding how this place works, Margaret Beckett said, 'You'll get used to it', and I turned on her.