Sentence examples for historic understanding from inspiring English sources

"It should be noted that we will continue to strongly oppose any redefinition of the historic understanding of marriage, regardless of the strength of the religious liberty protections.

"The passage by the Legislature of a bill to alter radically and forever humanity's historic understanding of marriage leaves us deeply disappointed and troubled," the bishops said.

The years since are certainly done justice, with acerbity about the failings of players such as the solipsistic Stan Collymore reflecting judgments born of personal observation as well as historic understanding.

In what the president called a "historic understanding", Iran agreed on Thursday to a framework deal that would dramatically constrain its nuclear program in return for the gradual lifting of economic sanctions.

Today, the United States, together with our allies and partners, has reached a historic understanding with Iran, which, if fully implemented, will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

I would hate to think that such a shallow and dismissive review might scare people away from reading one of the few contemporary critics with broad enough cultural knowledge to express both artistic and historic understanding of the subjects of everyday artistic life.

But this bill, which is opposed by a wide swathe of Western governors, overrides state law in a number of critical areas, and undoes the historic understandings of which water users are entitled to priority in a drought.

Consider the level of knowledge that we have of current events versus historical understanding; reflect on the connections between current events and historic events.

But then I began to see a new way of understanding historic preservation: it was, at heart, a forward-looking activity, putting enough care into things already here, so they can survive to be a part of the "here" of a generation that hasn't yet arrived.

"The audit recommends we terminate the historic memorandum of understanding with DeepMind which was signed in January 2016.

Does that really change the meaning of the word... or does it further demean and degrade you and your girlfriends in the eyes of those who subscribe to the historic and widespread understanding of the word?