It would have been understandable if reform voters had begun to weary after four years in which Mr. Khatami's efforts were systematically thwarted by conservative clerics.
I think it may stem from an understandable desire to reform the relationship between Jews and Christians.
At this point in America's national life cycle, I think the exercise is largely a distraction, and that Americans should concentrate on what are, finally, our own internal issues to resolve or ignore.The tendency to evoke external threats in order to rally the political capacity for needed reforms is understandable.
But while responding to the promise of Burmese reforms is understandable and appropriate, turning a blind eye to the warning signs of genocide against the Rohingya would be indefensible.
The impatience for reform is understandable, but it needs to be tempered.
Benjamin Y . Cooper a lobbyist with the Williams & Jensen firm in Washington, and a coordinator for the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service, said the level of interest shown in post office reform is understandable, given its importance to the economy.
It's an understandable impulse: the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act is a compromise measure.
Still, his reforming zeal is understandable.
Public pension funds have also joined together to lobby against a reduction in the SEC's power.As I said yesterday, if there is pressure being applied to legislators by interests anxious in derailing reform, that's understandable if unfortunate.
Since the transcripts are often leaked to the media, even before charges are laid, innocent people can find their most private remarks splattered across the press.But whenever Mr Berlusconi proposes any judicial reform, there are understandable suspicions of his personal motives (he recently called the judicial system a "cancer").
