Sentence examples for understanding against from inspiring English sources

Editors try to balance the value of the material to public understanding against potential dangers to the national interest.

I recognize that it's one thing to think you understand why someone does something and a very different thing to test cause and effect and check your understanding against hard data.

Who do we suppose will be able to deal more constructively with the challenges of our time: people who have only ever experienced preaching to the converted, or people who tested their understanding against the countervailing understandings of others?" Thankfully, there is one group of people the Bush team is listening to: Iraq's silent majority.

Because that seemed a little harsh, Ms. Revels returned to a favorite Costello song (written by Nick Lowe), which sets peace, love and understanding against an opening of "As I walk through this wicked world searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity".

"We've created a platform that lets teachers identify a student's level of understanding against any set of standards, in real-time," says chief executive Cory Reid.

The pioneers of the "calculus reform movement" known as the Harvard Calculus Consortium defended the necessity of conceptual understanding against procedural understanding; for this reason, they suggested that instructional context should be enhanced with multiple representations and should be supported with technology (Hughes-Hallett 1991; Vlachos & Kehagias, 2000).

Thus, if we think only in terms of translating into or out of our native tongue, and draw all our examples therefrom, many of the more general linguistic and conceptual difficulties attendant on the work of translation and textual exegesis elude our understanding against the Whorfian perspective.

However, modern HAs contain numerous advanced signal processing features, such as dynamic range compression, in order to address changes in loudness perception associated with hearing loss or noise reduction schemes that alleviate speech understanding against background noise.