Sentence examples for understanding of the average from inspiring English sources

But his extraordinary political gifts carried him through -- his talents as a communicator, his intuitive understanding of the average American, his unfailing geniality even after being hit by a would-be assassin's bullet, his ability to build and sustain friendships across partisan lines (as with Tip O'Neill, for instance).

"Part of the problem is that costs are unknown and can be unpredictable and while we do have a reasonably good understanding of the average procedure cost, patients are not exposed to the average – but rather the variation of procedure costs," he says.

Understanding of the average scores was informed by the SILL (Strategy Inventory for Language Learning) profile of results developed by Oxford (1990).

(4) Theme 4 "Space Climatology" focused on descriptions and improved understanding of the average properties and regular variations of the system, i.e., descriptions and analyses of the probabilities of extreme events and evaluations of long-term trends.

One approach, which is typically based on survey data, uses the workers' self assessment about the minimum education level needed for the job they perform or their understanding of the average education level for a particular job and whether they possess that or not (e.g., see Sicherman [1991]; Dolton and Vignoles [2000]).

But because the president has a better understanding of the average American person, she will likely support him come Election Day.

A by-product is a better understanding of the averaging procedures used in the past it has not always been recognized that these various averages can give radically different answers, and one can find instances where what was used was perhaps the easiest approach rather than the most appropriate one.

And all your posturing, posing, bravado and blustering does not gain you one whit of understanding of who the average American is, what we need, or what we expect from a leader.

Doing so gives our engineering team a deeper understanding of how the average person uses the software, and why clients might request certain features – instead of working blindly on a list of random-seeming requests, our engineers are involved in the conversation from the get-go.

By conducting this research, we hoped to gain a deeper understanding of what the average American is consuming, identify both positive and negative trends, and provide practical recommendations for improving the current representation of immigrants," explains opinion researcher and report author Lucy Odigie-TurLucy

A bit of perspective: the median wage in the UK - the wage that half of Brits earn less than and half earn more than - is probably the best way of understanding the average person's hourly income.