They were very nice and pleasant and understanding of where I was coming from, and the next thing was I got a summons".
"When we knew we wouldn't make our January delivery deadline," she said, "we kept our funders informed and they were pleasant and super understanding".
Key to that is establishing a challenging objective or objectives, a pleasant workplace, and understanding that stakeholders, customers, and the employees themselves all come first.
In The Times's Albany bureau, contact with the capitol's newsmakers was constant, and feedback from them was instantaneous — not always pleasant, but essential for understanding competing perspectives and agendas, or simply for avoiding making the same mistake twice.
Also, Clarendon credited Vane with having possessed "extraordinary parts, a pleasant wit, a great understanding, a temper not to be moved", and in debate "a quick conception and a very sharp and weighty expression".
It might be the screwy, Soviet-style aphorisms that are printed on the background of each level, phrases such as: "Physical fun / endlessly entertains / you're eager for more," or "New understanding / becomes a pleasant surprise / Life is good".
It is a unique opportunity for all to discuss digital opportunities and problems from all angles, in a pleasant and relaxed environment and build understanding and relationships.
Anton doesn't just become resigned to his fate; he and Claire reach an understanding and her plan to entomb them forever almost sounds like a pleasant reward for this broken down old man.
Hume's understanding of the operation of moral sentiment is not simply a matter of enjoying pleasant and painful feelings of a peculiar kind (T, 3.1.2.4/472).
The last time we went on strike, a lot of otherwise seemingly pleasant people seemed rather angry with us and made comments, which, on the whole, did not show much understanding of our motivation for striking.
