Sentence examples for grasped if from inspiring English sources

I wondered if he fully grasped, if indeed it was possible to, how much his work meant to so many".

They are at the same time economic, juridical, moral, aesthetic, religious, mythological…phenomena.…Their meaning can therefore only be grasped if they are viewed as a complex concrete reality.

But that opportunity can only be grasped if the growing number of young people today are empowered with education and employment, and have access to contraception, so that the generation that follows them won't be bigger still".

Yet, while Southgate has admitted he lacks the experience to fill the role on a full-time basis, there is an opportunity to be grasped if he impresses and, effectively, convinces himself he can do the job.

The intuitive idea is easily grasped if we consider the relation x is the father of y.

The prevalence of the free market ideology, despite the pitfalls in classical economic theory and the wide fluctuations that, for example, financial markets engender, cannot be fully grasped if the political dimension is not taken into account.

The reasons are easy to grasp, if sometimes hard to trace.

Is it because it's easier to grasp if we have on the one side this, on the one side that.

The concept of a recession must be difficult to grasp if you are one of the millions in Britain who live near the poverty line.

That's a lot of language and concepts the children would have found difficult to grasp if we had introduced them in a completely decontextualised way.

What people stood for wasn't necessarily what they were". If Hellman was noble in her books, Ms. Mahoney found her petty in person; if she seemed brave, she was actually fearful; if generous, then grasping; if large, small.