Sentence examples for my first understanding from inspiring English sources

"I was living in a little town in Connecticut, and that was my first understanding of New York City," she said yesterday.

"My first understanding of an architect was as the guy who fixed the roof," said François de Menil, the youngest son, who is now an architect himself, in New York.

This gave me a wholly misguided sense of life as a process of cumulative improvement, which would take several painful years of experience to dispel, but on the plus side, Holiday at the Dew Drop Inn gave me my first understanding of just how deep the pleasures of reading could run.

So, this experience at Ford Tractor gave me my first understanding of retail distribution.

The 2000 election is really my first understanding of how significant battles over process are.

"It was working in Brixton market, that was my real first understanding of theatre, just the characters you met and stories you heard".

This provided my first real understanding of a fundamental difference between how the indigenous people of Guatemala view disaster and how a North American does.

In my copy of "The Manner of Anacreon," Egoist Press, 1919, Hamilton Collier of Scarsdale, New York, has written on the flyleaf My first real understanding of the Greeks.I regret I am unable to agree with them.

You cannot begin to understand modern geopolitics without first understanding its intricacies and its aftermath.

You cannot understand the modern world without first understanding the catastrophe that was the First World War.

To understand a thinker's answers required first understanding the questions and the conditions in which they arose.