For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others.
Some stroke or accident victims lose the ability to produce speech; others, their ability to understand it.
But these are people whose illness interferes with their ability to understand that they are sick and need medication.
That impedes their ability to understand what is really going on with productivity in the modern economy.
And you can see that, in the traditional semester, students lost confidence in their ability to understand course content.
The future of robots, as our companions is dependent on their ability to understand, interpret and represent the environment in a human compatible manner.
At the same time, the international community was stockpiling antiviral drugs, and scientists were improving their ability to understand new viruses.
"I think most of my management staff has grown in their ability to understand business objectives and management reports and metrics," he said.
We could build people's confidence in their ability to understand and use words naturally, from the variety of contexts in which words occur.
As for the Tarrytown students, tests given in recent weeks assessed their ability to understand dozens of words in Spanish: body parts, colors, clothing and animals.
Moreover, by literally cutting residents' visibility of the ocean, the seawalls reduce their ability to understand the sea by observing wave patterns, critics say.
