Pro-Brexit campaigners are understandably keen to point out Treasury forecasters were wrong to predict that a vote to leave the EU would send the UK into recession.
In the meantime, Turkish officials point out that they are building an expensive hydroelectric dam right at the Syrian border that will not work properly if the Euphrates's flow consistently falls below the promised level.Syria and Iraq, understandably unsatisfied, would like a firmer commitment on the sharing of both rivers.
They point out that higher education institutions that are "tone deaf to the issue of proctoring online multiple choice assessments may understandably find other institutions reluctant to accept these courses for transfer credit" (Harmon et al., 2010, Summary para.2).
Starkey's comment is sour grapes, "entirely and understandably so", and she points out that the great historian Eric Ives's biography of Anne Boleyn only came back into print because her novel The Other Boleyn Girl was made into a film (with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman).
The News of the World's foray into phone hacking has been widely and understandably criticized, but, Lemann points out, two of the 2009 Pulitzer Prizes* went to stories based on hacked phone records: those of Eliot Spitzer and a madam, for the New York Times, and of Kwame Kilpatrick and his mistress, for the Detroit Free Press.
The IPCC justified its investigation today, saying the public was "understandably concerned" over the footage, pointing out that Smellie could still face disciplinary proceedings.
She pointed out, and understandably so, that the term "crack cookies" is all over Pinterest, and is clearly not her own invention.
Maybe there's a bit of "Stockholm Syndrome" involved here, as Bethlehem Shoals pointed out in his understandably ambiguous farewell to the outdoing commish, or maybe it's another example of humanity's growing tendency towards preemptive nostalgia.
This wasn't an incarnation of the former work and pensions secretary with which he was familiar, and he was understandably confused; not to say sceptical, pointing out that he had always seemed quite happy to shaft the poorest and most vulnerable members of society for the past six years and it was asking a lot of the public to believe that secretly he had always been on their side.
Thomas Boghardt notes the "exceptional" way in which Lody bore himself at his trial, pointing out that "virtually all other German agents accused of espionage understandably tried to deny or minimise their involvement with N".
