Sentence examples for rightly understand from inspiring English sources

The French agreed to let the disarmed colonials march back to Virginia with the honours of war, but they compelled Washington to promise that Virginia would not build another fort on the Ohio for a year and to sign a paper acknowledging responsibility for "l'assassinat" of de Jumonville, a word that Washington later explained he did not rightly understand.

They all rightly understand that this is not a left-right or red-blue issue.

They rightly understand that positioning their party against this new demography of America may render them as much a 20th century relic as the Southern Strategy itself.

Leading gun control Democrats, like Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), rightly understand that, in his words, "we must break the grip of the NRA" if we are ever going to see Congressional action on guns.

I can only hope that you, as his replacement, will more rightly understand the role and responsibilities of the nation's most important intelligence officer, the Director of National Intelligence.

Raising my young boys to rightly understand this world--to fully grasp the gospel and how they should try to live it out in this time and in this place--may very well be the most important thing I ever do.

"We are rightly understood to be not school and not social services.

Metropolitan alliances can be built on what Tocqueville would call "self-interest, rightly understood".

Taking advantage even of a willing subordinate is rightly understood to be, in itself, dubious, or worse.

Berkeley's immaterialism is open to "gross misinterpretation," as he said in his preface; rightly understood, it is common sense.

He rightly understood that he would have been dismissed (which was the collective decision of the senior editorial staff).