Or could it simply have been an attempt to normalize such acts for us, to make them part of the understandable everyday background noise of a dangerous world?
Understandable, given his background in journalism but, nevertheless, disappointing.
Abdelrahman's reluctance to hand over her personal data is understandable, given her background – she had grown up in Egypt under a military regime, when a person would never have given anything to the police if they could help it.
Most of the research on the participation of URM students in the sciences has been quantitative or mixed method in nature, which is perhaps understandable, given the background in scientific inquiry of researchers within STEM fields.
Modern biologists, both accomplished professionals and students, are unfortunately ill-prepared for this changing role because of the understandable bias in their background towards experimental techniques and results.
That the BNP has become a magnet for extreme-right sympathisers is understandable given Griffin's own background.
If you don't have a unique, defining background, it is understandable.
Further, they reviewed the content of the patient decision aid to ensure it is understandable by people without medical background, although no readability program was applied.
It was understandable that otolaryngologists with the background of surgically-oriented training might not be familiar with pediatric prescription or accustomed to dosing practice.
This is, in part, understandable, because psychiatrists, with a background in medical education, are trained to see psychiatric phenomena as diseases, as well as pathological deviations from a (unspecified) biological and or social norm.
