The urge to take credit, to seek approbation for your work, is an understandable one.
The shield painters employed a visual language that seems immediately understandable, one that 20th-century Western Modernists have used for their own spiritual warfare.
This impulse is an understandable one, but it does run contrary to the conventional wisdom about the film industry's "anti-Christian" animus.
Should Mr. Yanukovich avoid crucial actions such as energy sector reform, that is his choice — even an understandable one given the tough politics that surround the issue.
In hindsight, it was a mistake — an understandable one, given the nature of the media and of Presidential politics today — for Obama to offer such a specific timetable.
For Lee Helgeland, 65, a high-end gunsmith who, like his friend Mr. Fisher, lives deep in the country, the rise of assault weapons has been a problematic development, but an understandable one given the widespread admiration for all things military.
Given her recent success and the recent dance-music infestation of the pop and R&B charts, no one would have blamed Ms. Rowland for going whole-hog in that direction on "Here I Am," her third solo album, and first in four years — it would have been a craven move but an understandable one.
Fifa's argument is simple and, from a certain perspective, understandable: one passport, one team.
It was a miscalculation, albeit an understandable one in the context of the febrile, paranoid atmosphere at the time and Dennis's antagonistic personal relationship with Mosley.
