Sentence examples for understanding given from inspiring English sources

A former salesman with a Coca-Cola distributor, he had, with his employer's support and understanding, given up the high visibility of a sales route for a simple truck driving job.

They had difficulty understanding, given our Nation's leadership on so many critical issues, that we could be in a paralyzed situation".

In this, as well as in his theory of knowledge, Telesio seems to follow Girolamo Fracastoro's explanation of sense perception and understanding given in the closing chapters of De sympathia et antipathia rerum and in the epistemological treatise Turrius sive de intellectione.

Some people might think Lawson an unsuitable role model when it comes to scientific understanding, given his tendency to make absurd claims that are demonstrably untrue.

"The parties believe that they may be able to reach an understanding given just a little more time," the filing said.

In fact, I thought Taylor's underwritten part was actually pretty decent and understanding, given that the entire world was telling her that Caitlin was badmouthing her dead daughter over guilt about revealing the hiding place of schoolmates.

But finally, genial understanding gave way to rawer emotion.

Kerou in particular has an instinctive understanding that this too shall soon pass, and that understanding gives her comfort.

Their compassion and understanding gave me hope that divisive political rhetoric would diminish.

The understanding gives the C.I.A. for the first time the authority to strike beyond a narrow range of counterterrorism targets.

Under the Second Empire of France, commercial liberalism and Anglo-French understanding gave these settlements a fleeting moment of prosperity.