"I first understood the meaning of fear," he says, "when I was dix ans".
Q I first understood you to say, no unilateral action in Iraq.
I first understood the power of education in 1999 when my elder brother, Kai, died from typhoid.
I'm especially fond of the line: "I remember the moment when I first understood Nik and I had made real mistakes".
"That's when I first understood about competition or achieving goals," she said, adding that her mother was always there to remind her to stay focused.
I first understood this a few years ago, when I was offered, at an otherwise very ordinary restaurant, a cupcake frosted to look like a breast, with a nipple made of piped pink icing.
The tiramisù is what I first understood this simple dessert to be before it got manhandled beyond recognition: ladyfingers soaked in strong espresso and layered with mascarpone cheese flavored judiciously with amaretto.
I was 16 when I finally found a copy of the novel in a library, and I first understood the meaning of literary style after reading this line in the first paragraph of the novel, with Mr. Rushdie describing the birth of independent India and of the protagonist at the stroke of midnight: "Clock-hands joined palms in respectful greeting as I came".
When I first understood, via Edward Snowden, that the U.S. government was collecting data on all of us, I didn't knee-jerk freak out.
I first understood how vastly different marketing technology is from the rest of business technology when I attended a dinner of the Marketing Cloud, an informal organization of marketing technology vendors.
