Sentence examples for understandable force from inspiring English sources

The official explanation, such as it is, starts with Germany being a "law-based state", a cliche of understandable force in the federal republic.

Perhaps that is one of the understandable downsides of the force of personality that enabled something as extraordinary as "The Dinner Party" to be made in the first place.

They would step up their attacks on the Obama forces with understandable glee.

That disappointment is understandable, and the Ferrer forces have every right do demand an objective tabulation of the votes.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that the Afghans had an understandable aversion to foreign forces on their soil and were doing a good job of policing themselves.

Playing with understandable desperation, the Sharks forced the action in Chicago's end all evening and had a 46-38 advantage in shots on goal, making it a busy night for Antti Niemi, whose acrobatic play in the net had been the decisive factor in the series.

"I am going to continue combating syncretism," Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves said soon after arriving here in 1987, adding that while such practices may have been understandable when slaves were forced to abandon African beliefs, "now, with total freedom of religion in Brazil, everyone must follow their own faith, without mixtures".

And he is not prepared to rule out torture as a response: he says that torture would have been an "understandable" tactic if American security forces had had someone in custody on Sept. 11 who knew which buildings were targets.

This greater comfort, among American progressives, with the agenda and progress of social movements rather than with those of class forces is both understandable and costly.

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The notion of illocutionary force is most easily understandable in terms of examples, such as making a promise.