(His anxieties might have been understandable. Around Taos, O'Keeffe's difficulties in learning to drive a car were legendary).
It is understandable: for around £250 a week (more if you work with a private fostering agency) you could be faced with exhaustion, broken nights, tantrums, runaways or self-harm.
Mr. Kelly said he did not witness the officers' courthouse conduct, but added, "I think it's understandable that officers rally around when there's a time of trouble".
It's true that journalists need to be particularly cautious when reporting on sexual assault cases given the victims' understandable fears around their stories becoming public.
And it's understandable, going around practicing for the inevitable death of those we love, or even for our own, would be a rather unpleasant way to move through the world.
In both cases, the apprehension about getting things right the first time around is understandable, since these are products that have few if any antecedents with demonstrated success in the wider consumer market.
So there has been understandable trepidation hovering around the release of "Love and Theft" (Columbia), Dylan's first effort since 1997's praised-to-the-skies "Time Out of Mind".
Getting started involved understandable growing pains around coordination and interorganizational trust; this delayed initial development of the SMNet.
But previous laboratory experiments used artificial surfaces like flypaper, not living zebras — understandable, since getting a zebra to stand around in a lab would be tough.
To try to make sense of what is going on around us, it is understandable to draw comparisons.
Tilley says scepticism around cloud seeding is understandable because relatively little funding goes into research that could convince doubters it works.
