Sentence examples for is understood roughly from inspiring English sources

As it is hereditary variations that are needed for evolution via natural selection, Jablonka and Lamb set out to study different inheritance systems (where system is understood roughly to mean a set of interacting factors and mechanisms) by identifying different kinds of hereditary variation (Jablonka 2001; Jablonka & Lamb 1995, 2005).

The number of letters to Kensington and Chelsea council calling for the carnival in west London to be scrapped is understood to be roughly the same number as every year.

The letter is understood to be in roughly three parts: the first outlines which programmes have been agreed and are safeguarded for the schedule; the second lists projects "under discussion" but with revised production budgets; and the third confirms what will appear and be prioritised in the 2012 schedule.

Again, natural languages are understood because, roughly, such an understanding consists in translating their sentences into one's Mentalese.

Lacan's phrase "symbolic order," which encompasses all of the preceding, can be understood as roughly equivalent to what Hegel designates as "objective spirit".

Giggs's own thoughts about Van Gaal's managerial style are understood to fall roughly in line with those of Neville and Scholes, his close friends, and the last couple of years have been exceedingly awkward for him as assistant manager, brought up on the old United principles but having to adhere to a different way of thinking and not wanting to rock the boat.

In light of the perceived shortcomings of the calibration approach (and those of alternative scoring rules), Tang proposes a synthesis of reliabilism and evidentialism, where evidentialism can roughly be understood as the view that a belief's justification is determined by how well it is supported by the evidence that the believer has.

Nevertheless, in a developing country context where the legal or quasi-legal regime is frequently weak, and enforcement critically constrained, treating compensations within the context aforementioned could be understood in 'soft law' terms, roughly worthy of a CSR cloak.

The problem with this reconstruction of Descartes' reasoning, however, is that Descartes explicitly deems motion to be a "mode" of extension; where a mode is a lesser ontological category that, roughly, can be understood as a way that extension manifests itself, or as a "property" of extension (Pr I 53; shape is also mentioned as a mode of extension).

As Francesca Bray has observed, in China's late Imperial period (from roughly 960 1911), motherhood was understood through the "duality" of the "natural" (or physical) and "social" mother, two roles that could be separated and often mapped onto a class hierarchy that valued the educational and moral contributions of the social mother most highly (Bray 1997 347).

It's impossible to understand roughly three-quarters of Western art if you don't know the events of the Old and the New Testaments and the stories of the saints.