Sentence examples for that were understood to from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the virtues that were understood to govern these relationships were, in their biblical setting, communal as well.

A third motivation concerned the logical problems, dating back to Zeno, that were understood to flow from assuming infinite divisibility.

What Larry realized, the experience that fueled his insights and energies, was that if gays did not organize and fight back against enemy forces that were understood to be no less than genocidal, however indirectly, even if standing up and fighting back were at great risk to ourselves, we were inviting even worse calamity.

This process commenced with a clarification of the 'problems' that were understood to exist within the clinic.

Cairns focused his attention on the concept of adult stem cells that were understood to be responsible for the replenishment of rapidly dividing tissues, and to reside within cellular hierarchies in various tissues, such as the haematopoietic system.

As Woods and Caldwell hypothesised, the most rapid and profound transformations in fertility occurred when cultural understandings of family life emerged that enabled couples to think – for the first time – about the limitation of births in contexts that were understood to be moral (Caldwell, 1999; Woods, 1987).

The inclusion of a chorus, moreover, in a genre that was understood to be exclusively instrumental, was thoroughly unorthodox.

Clattenburg was on Sunday accused by the European champions of making comments that are understood to have been interpreted as racist during Sunday's Premier League game at Stamford Bridge.

— Turkish newspaper columnist Mehmet Yilmaz, after a Turkish television station was fined for airing an episode of "The Simpsons" that was understood to "mock God".

Hull City have signed Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone in a move that is understood to have broken the club's current transfer record.

What mattered were not the norms of its enforcement but the social compact that was understood to underlie it and the mutual respect people showed for it.