Sentence examples for understand the first from inspiring English sources

"When confronted by something they do not understand, the first reaction is fear.

Brian Leveson didn't understand the first thing about the internet; and that shows.

They don't understand the first amendment and free speech as it relates to the media".

"But he truly doesn't seem to understand the First Amendment," the source continued.

Things are often explained in case we didn't understand the first time: "'Lord, lord King!' the priest gasped.

"But this is the S.E.C. — an incompetent government agency filled with bumbling lawyers who don't understand the first thing about the markets they're charged with regulating".

In order to understand the second question, however, an understanding of the first question is illuminating.

To understand the first-generation Blairites' media approach to Iraq - from exaggeration of the WMD threat to the fury over Gilligan - you have to appreciate their psychosis of opposition.

"We know you'll understand," the second voice said.

To understand the second world, you have to start to think like a second-world country.

TRYING to understand the Third Way is a bit like reading "Finnegan's Wake".