Sentence examples for if it understands from inspiring English sources

It will feel trapped and have a greater desire to leave if it doesn't know of an exit and will be more comfortable if it understands its surroundings.

Charles Darwin's observations of Jenny, the zoo's first captive orangutan, led him to write in The Descent of Man: "Let man visit Ouranoutang in domestication, hear expressive whine, see its intelligence, as if it understands every word said, see its affection to those it knew, see its passion and rage, sulkiness and very actions of despair; and then let him boast of his proud pre-eminence".

He said: "The Conservative Party will only rebuild itself as a national party which can win majorities on its own if it understands it cannot do so by making a single undifferentiated pitch to every age group and in every part of the country.

Some experts say it needs to keep up the tough talk, even if it understands that its efforts at the Security Council may not do much to limit the North's capabilities.

For instance, the fad for "core competences" makes it difficult for a western firm to play the Asian game, even if it understands the rules.

Data populism, in other words, is one issue on which the populist left does have a genuine advantage, but only if it understands that the traditional progressive agenda, like everything else these days, has been utterly disrupted by digital technology.

Diebold, whose machines count many votes, has never acted as if it understood this.

YOU might expect that the stockmarket would, if it understood no other industry, be able to fathom investment banking.

It didn't struggle or try to escape but simply pressed itself against his wrist and the trailing sleeve of his sweater as if it understood, as if it were grateful.

After two resignations and a week of damaging publicity, St Paul's has a chance to act as if it understood how people are seeing it.

He said he was put through a "frustrating process" by the corporation and wondered if it understood "the realities of today's commercial world".