Sentence examples for not rightly understand from inspiring English sources

The French agreed to let the disarmed colonials march back to Virginia with the honours of war, but they compelled Washington to promise that Virginia would not build another fort on the Ohio for a year and to sign a paper acknowledging responsibility for "l'assassinat" of de Jumonville, a word that Washington later explained he did not rightly understand.

He might as well have been expressing the epidemiologists' frustration when they realize that changes in climate, land use, and transport, a concert eons in the making, affect rates of pathogen emergence in ways we still do not rightly understand.

Can't rightly see: Cannot understand.

They all rightly understand that this is not a left-right or red-blue issue.

We remember him then as one who sought to demonstrate that diversity need not divide, that pluralism rightly understood and rightly practiced is a benefit and not a burden, and that the fear of difference is a fear of the future.

"We are rightly understood to be not school and not social services.

In this decision, the Supreme Court didn't violate the separation between the church and the state, rightly understood.

If, on the other hand, MacArthur's views are rightly understood, he would like to use the troops on Formosa not as a substitute for American troops but as a kind of auxiliary.... View Article By Alan Burdick By Charles Bethea By Phil Klay By Larissa MacFarquhar.

Now that private conduct is rightly understood to bear crucially on fitness for public life, it isn't only politicians who come under intense scrutiny.

I think Wallace is rightly understood as a moral writer – so much of his work explores what it means not just to be human, but to be a good human – but he was also an ethical one.

We wonder whether the order of different urgencies is rightly understood, whether there is a confusion of aim, and whether some of the advice you get is not crack-brained and queer.