Sentence examples for understandable at the time from inspiring English sources

The public and regulatory scrutiny of bonuses was understandable at the time, given the banking industry's huge pay packets and its starring role in damaging the world economy.

His alarm was understandable: at the time the military represented over half of all government spending and more than 10 percent of America's gross domestic product.

The decision to persist with Matt Prior as long as England did was understandable at the time, given the idea that it was thought the new players would need a backbone of experience to help them through.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Pelley seem oblivious to the way he had given false hope to a child, a gesture that may have been understandable at the time but that is a weird thing to brag about later, wildly lacking self-awareness.

The motivation for the typing that led to this embarras de richesses was understandable at the time.

Although the depression was understandable at the time, mortars were often lobbed into his base.

It was an understandable oversight at the time, especially as the South African quickly slipped back down the leaderboard.

However sensible, the campaign had unwanted effects: People were suspicious of their neighbour, their relative, their teacher, their colleague, the shopkeeper, the doctor, their wife, their husband, and many took advantage of such easy, widespread suspicions, perfectly understandable given the climate at the time, to get rid of a hated spouse.

However sensible, the campaign had unwanted effects: **{:.break one} ** People were suspicious of their neighbour, their relative, their teacher, their colleague, the shopkeeper, the doctor, their wife, their husband, and many took advantage of such easy, widespread suspicions, perfectly understandable given the climate at the time, to get rid of a hated spouse.

Living in denial is understandable, for the time being.

"If what I proposed was understandable and at the same time a little wild and poetic, that was the choice," Mr. Drexler said by telephone from Madrid.