Sentence examples for past understood from inspiring English sources

We exist today because Conservatives of the past understood the need to innovate, to broaden, to be where the people are.

In his new book, On The Map, Simon Garfield explains that, just as the empires of the past understood that marking territory was crucial, so Google and its rivals now wield influence.

The Hollywood studios of the past understood this all too well and blew up huge smoke screens to protect the sexuality of their stars, not just because of prevailing social bigotry, but also because of a conviction that the populace should not know too much about its celluloid gods.

Great Democrats of the past understood that government does some things better than the private sector.

Even young people, a group that has supported the president in the past, "understood that after the 2007-2009 recession that times would be tough.

If my book can help others to discover that past, understand the present and imagine a better future, as it has for me, then Sex and the Citadel will have been a job well done.

Messi and Ronaldo, deferential to their sport's past, understand instinctively.

When this last piece of the puzzle of biology is in place, then the student begins to see into the past, understand the present, and logically consider the future.

Fortunately, there were many "buddies" in the community -- people who, though probably also living far from their own families and perhaps their pasts, understood the importance of connection to others who cared -- what Walt Whitman called "the manly love of comrades".

Eastwood had moved past easily understood right and wrong, past the plain satisfactions of pattern.

A member of the public walked past and understood.