Does enjoying hip-hop require understanding the words?
But, as Dan Rothman points out in this article, 'Data, however, require understanding'.
Sound business decisions require understanding not only the most likely scenario, but also the range of possibilities.
This gamble was to fail catastrophically; while that outcome invited no pity, it did require understanding, and that was what Conjectures of Order offered to its readers.
Successful integration of these materials into a specific technology will require understanding of the fibres' surface, bulk and architectural properties.
The unique and complex flow characteristics require understanding on local, as well as global, spatio-temporal scales.
Tailoring an approach to leadership development that capitalizes on the region's opportunities and potential will require understanding the ASEAN region's special challenges.
Because human communities are tightly coupled to coastal marine resources, understanding pathways to sustainability require understanding as much about humans as about the ocean.
The sentimental stuff about his kids could have been tightened up and the occasional splurges of capital letters and exclamation marks require understanding as an attempt to reproduce on the page the comic melodrama of his on-stage storytelling.
Many geotechnical engineering problems, such as slope stability analysis, require understanding of the constitutive behavior of clay under plane strain loading condition.
Decisions on land use shape the distribution of these life support functions and thus require understanding of complex feedbacks between decisions on land use and human resource appropriation.
