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Why? Are the people of Africa less able to understand the implications of marriage and promiscuity than we in the west?
We would still have Raskolnikovs but we wouldn't have Crime and Punishment.' If Gitta Sereny hadn't written her book about Albert Speer, his slave-workers would still have died, but we would be less able to understand why.
With each generation of poor schooling it'll be diminished – we'll be less and less able to understand what we don't have – but, for now, the part of my job which is consistently inspiring involves seeing and feeling the energy of readers, meeting that immense enthusiasm for wonders – in all kinds of people in all kinds of situations – Ilkley, Ely, Toronto … it doesn't seem to matter where.
Naturally, "The eligibility requirements and computations are complex, yet recipients are relatively less able to understand complex rules and less likely to speak English as their primary language, creating a recipe for confusion".
"During fight-or-flight, we're less able to understand our body's hunger and satiety signals.
Unable to discern their true relationships to each other, and to those who came before them, the three are even less able to understand the eerie happenings that mark them apart from normal families.
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Between her little English and my less Spanish, she is able to understand that I am road weary.
The more complicated the Volcker Rule, the less regulators will be able to understand it, leaving the banks with more loopholes.
Children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) are less able to intuitively understand how they are expected to behave or to learn social rules by observing others as their typically developing peers might do.
Even if language change is not harmful, the faster language changes, the less new generations will be able to understand what their forebears wrote.The Middle English quotation in last week's column proved the point for some readers: it is all but impenetrable to modern understanding without special training.
For children aged less than 16 years old and able to understand the questions, we interviewed the child and one of his parents at least.
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