If Pearl is an irresponsible mother — and that seems beyond dispute — her abdication of duty made a terrible sense to me, given her keen understanding of the obligation.
Mr. Green said his daughter's birthday had given her an understanding of tragedy, and it sparked an interest in civic affairs that brought her to meet Representative Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday.
Having business experience inside Gap was an advantage, Lawlor says, because it gave her an understanding of the demands of the supply chain.
She has a PhD in biochemistry and worked for several years as a researcher, giving her an understanding of the pressures of working at the bench but believes that scientists have a duty to engage with the public to help them understand the importance of science in our daily lives.
Devlin told me that the Chaplin experience gave her an understanding of the inside workings of theatre.
The trip by Dr. Chan – a pop singer, television personality and doctor of education – was aimed at giving her an understanding of the critical assistance UNICEF programmes provide to Palestinian children and women with financial support from donors including Japan.
As I've said before, she made an appearance at the request of the White House in which she gave her best understanding of the intelligence that had been provided to her.
It was her work with human rights organizations as well as her father's arrest, she said, that gave her an understanding of "the things that matter in Malaysia — the state of our judiciary, the state of our civil and political liberties," and convinced her that politics offered an opportunity to effect change.
"We had an affinity for the subject matter," Kate Mulleavy said, adding that the film gave her an understanding of the ballet world's "darker nature and twisted kind of underbelly".
She said that her experience as an immigrant child speaking no English gave her an understanding of the new California, and that her education at Stanford gave her a high-level knowledge of how the state's economy works, or does not.
In a conversation earlier this week, Guo said that growing up around entrepreneurship gave her an "understanding of how difficult" starting a company truly is.
