Sentence examples for rather understandable from inspiring English sources

And neither are we without sympathy for him: for his emotional stuntedness, his besetting blandness and his rather understandable desire to pre-empt catastrophe before it hunts him down.

Instead, he makes it clear that John's dedication to attaining a higher plain of consciousness is inextricably linked not only to his rather understandable desire to shrug off the physical but also to loosening the attachments – specifically to his family – that have proved so claustrophobic.

This is rather understandable - or, rather, it would have been understandable twenty years ago.

Yet despite this, their so-called agitation was merely the shouting of a few slogans, demanding a dialog with the Minister of Education, rather understandable considering they had gathered 100,000 signatures, behind which stand the interests of 200 million new urban immigrants.

However, when we combine the decisions with evidence of guideline knowledge and arguments for the decisions, the management of the different cases seems rather understandable.

Concussion protocols allow him to return for the final game – a rather less understandable protocol, this time from Uefa, meant the squad had to travel the 100 yards or so from hotel to Andruv Stadium on the team coach.

Given what was at stake, Scotland's bright opening was understandable rather than worthy of high praise.

Political elites have exaggerated rather than alleviated understandable popular anxieties about Muslim religious difference in ways that often make reasonable debates impossible.

"I would far rather, given the understandable anger that people feel, return the money I have been permitted to claim and pay the bills myself.

The report does not attribute it to prejudice against Muslims in any simple sense, but rather to the understandable desire to prevent another terrorist attack, coupled with the fact that we cannot predict the next attack with any certitude.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr., I.B.M.'s chairman and chief executive, called the quarter solid, but John B. Jones, who follows the company for Salomon Smith Barney, summed up the results as understandable rather than satisfying.