Sentence examples for rightly understood from inspiring English sources

"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".

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

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

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

As Cillizza notes, "Terrorism or the threat of it, then, is rightly understood as a political muddle".

Actual star making has never been a strong suit for "Idol," a show that, rightly, understands victory as the only end.

"This government rightly understands that long-term results will only come if the monster state that we have created is also changed," said Paschos Mandravelis, another political commentator.

Ms. Philo rightly understands that women need refined and well-thought-out items — like a belted white three-quarter-length spring coat over a full skirt; or a slender coat over pants.

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.