Psychologist G. Dick Miller, who acted as an expert witness for the defense, argued that the boy was suffering from affluenza, which may have kept him from comprehending the full consequence of his actions.
Not only because of the support he received from people he respected in the development community, he suggests, but also because his long experience of people surviving in the harshest conditions life can deliver – "hundreds of thousands of children growing up in circumstances we cannot begin to comprehend" – keeps everything in perspective.
But now, IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY, is undertaking a multiyear project to finally solve all the problems that have kept voice recognition systems from comprehending free-form conversations-and becoming mainstream technology.
Though Mr. Russell is at a loss to fully explain it, he has clearly tapped into a vein of youthful idealism that the authorities the world over have been struggling — and failing — to comprehend and keep up with.
Success and affirmation also ensure that all students are able to comprehend and keep pace as the text is read, and are ready for elaborations of meanings.
"None of us could comprehend what had happened … we kept asking ourselves how an entire city could have been destroyed by a single bomb".
Williams kept her molestation a secret for years, not knowing how to comprehend the events that transpired that night in California.
From the research legitimacy and possible practical contribution point of view, it depends on understanding the complexity and heterogenic character of the biobank, comprehending the fact that biobanks are not just places to keep, store and produce the knowledge.
Dust, smoke, confusion, and exhaustion all combined to keep the French commanders on the field (Davout, Ney, and Murat) from comprehending that all the Russians before them had fallen back, were in confusion, and ripe for the taking.
To comprehend the biomechanics of flight, a few simple physical principles must be kept in mind.
But it has never kept humans from seeking refuge in art and turning to it to try to comprehend tragedy.
