Sentence examples for of an understandable from inspiring English sources

Roux has superstitions that have grown out of an understandable reverence for the value of food.

Breuer, who recognized the stirrings of reciprocal feelings, broke off his treatment out of an understandable confusion about the ethical implications of acting on these impulses.

The counterinsurgency crowd doesn't want to whack the enemy too hard because of an understandable fear that too many civilian casualties will undermine the "hearts and minds" and nation-building components of the strategy.

This may just be a consequence of the necessary open-endedness of the narrative, or of an understandable desire not to alienate "Potter" readers by taking too many cinematic chances.

In a 2000 dissent in an airplane crash case, for example, she chastised colleagues as stretching their legal interpretation out of "an understandable desire to provide the relatives" of victims a larger recovery.

And he said that the decision to make the Office for National Statistics ONSS) independent, while taken out of an understandable wish to end political interference, had proved to be "a mistake" because the ONS now sat in a "God-like role" when it decided what did and did not score as public borrowing.

Tyrie presses him on the point, and is accused of having an "understandable fascination with Mrs Thatcher" (curious phrase).

Vieux has earned the title "the Jimi Hendrix of Sahara," an understandable (if simplistic) compliment.

Anxiety before major procedures can be triggered by the intrinsic invasiveness and risks of surgery and by an understandable fear of the loss of control linked to anaesthesia.

Some of this hesitance reflects an understandable abundance of caution.

In a unanimous display of good breeding (or an understandable fear of chocolate stains), napkins were whipped onto laps.