Like evangelicals today, they maintained a strong commitment to biblical authority and a strong emotional desire for an easily understandable face-value interpretation of the biblical text ("God says it, I believe it, that settles it!" being a popular phrase).
This is understandable – trusts face huge immediate pressures and can ill-afford to lose part of their budgets.
Yet frustration is understandable when faced with what could yet turn out to be a kamikaze flight into the political wasteland.
Nor can it grasp sentences that are ambiguous when written but perfectly understandable when spoken, face to face.
But a rate rise at the next meeting of the interest-rate setting Open Markets Committee in October seems most unlikely, given the Fed's understandable reluctance to face accusations of influencing November's presidential election.On Wall Street, it is believed that share prices tend to fall when interest rates rise, and to rise when rates are flat or falling.
Similarly confusing claims have been made about the fate of the hostages, their number and locations.Such crossed wires are perhaps understandable in the face of the worst terrorist attack the east African country has experienced since the American embassy bombings in 1998, but the government will need its credibility more than ever once the crisis does come to an end.
Perhaps they should have more faith in themselves, although their collective sense of inferiority is understandable in the face of such genius.
It would have been understandable on the face of it all if people saw Game 3 as a wonderful blip in time, but digging into Biyombo's statistics, it was really more of an inevitability given his increased minutes.
"The morning service began about 20 minutes ago, and there are no obvious signs of any security," said Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt, a worried look on his face – understandable, of course, as most British churches employ armed militias to guard their entrances at all times.
Chancellor Schröder defended the approach of German industry, saying it was understandable that companies facing suits in the United States should want to ensure that they "not pay twice for the same historical fault" before contributing to the so-called Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Fund.
When Zeine then decided to turn Cota's wireless charging into a company, he faced understandable and considerable skepticism.
