Sentence examples for peculiar understanding from inspiring English sources

If Hitchens refused the label of conservative, it was largely because of his peculiar understanding of historical progress.

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" shoehorns Leone's European sensibility into a genre for which he had enormous appreciation and a peculiar understanding.

At the start of his sports career he signed amateur forms for Sunderland, but on the peculiar understanding that if Newcastle United showed an interest in making him a professional, he could leave.

It's one of those galling, little-known facts that, to my mind, perfectly encapsulates Chávez's peculiar understanding of democracy: the right to vote is guaranteed, but the right to have your vote counted isn't.

Mr Robinson's defence of the right of preachers to "denounce false doctrine" was politically inept, to put it mildly, and it showed a peculiar understanding of the role of a secular politician.

But our peculiar understanding of "technology" is often grounded by our own place in temporality... When, in 1904, aviator Alberto Sasked-Dumont asked Louis Cartier to grant him the ability to tell the time whilst keeping both hands on his plane's controls, he may have marvelled at Cartier's innovation of strapping a clock to his wrist.

However, the detection of ancient unisexual lineages in invertebrates and vertebrates is peculiar so understanding how these organisms sustain viability without sex can potentially help us better understand why sex is important [ 32].

Much effort has been spent developing theoretical models and understanding peculiar nitrogen-induced effects on optical properties of dilute nitrides [1, 4 6].

Understanding the bleak IT job outlook begins with understanding the peculiar nature of this recession.

Due to peculiar experimental conditions, our understanding is often contradictory and difficult to infer with respect to actual field conditions.

Indeed the knowledge of the local extension of the molten chains is crucial for understanding the peculiar stress behavior observed during the crystallization process.