The statement added, "While I still believe these allegations did not rise to the level of impeachable offenses as a constitutional matter, I understand how people of good faith could disagree".
He tried to explain the events that were unfolding in Sheffield, and I nervously asked, "But can Liverpool still win the F.A. Cup?" When he solemnly informed me that that no longer mattered, I understood — as much as a 7-year-old could have understood — the gravity of the situation.
It didn't matter that I understood little or nothing at all.
"It is likely that certain passages of the Report will be actionable in that they are defamatory of a number of individuals concerned in this matter, including, I understand, Miss Keeler (a person who seems more prone than most to issue writs in order to seek further publicity)." At the last minute, however, he thought better of this particular aside, and struck it out.
"This is a PGA Tour matter and I understand that it is being dealt with under their procedure at an appeal stage," he said.
After more than 15 years of reflection on the matter, I now understand that the Qur'an does not explicitly refer to "homosexuality", nor does it refer to women as "inferior".
After describing motion as the transference of a body from the surrounding neighborhood of bodies, Descartes states that by "one body, or one part of matter, I here understand everything which is simultaneously transported" (Pr II 25).
In the famous Pirates of Penzance lyrics, the "modern" Major-General Stanley claims: "I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical," but it will take more than this to balance the books.
As I understood matters, their child's mother has consistently interfered with his parenting time and made his life so difficult in that regard, that many fathers might have "voluntarily" disappeared from the child's life by now.
But no matter how much I understand it, I trust you, and I'm going to do what you suggest".
