Learn a little history first, to understand how recent the understandings in this field actually are.
Short expressions of WTD statements must be linked back to the fuller narrative context, to values and moral understandings, in order to be understandable.
Understandings, in fact, have arisen in some of our most famous political relationships.
Out went decades-old understandings; in came 30-day notices to vacate.
But Washington "had understandings in the region about the right of a democratic regime to ask for help.
Previous cease-fire understandings in Gaza have fallen apart over continuing Israeli raids in the West Bank and the inability of Palestinian leaders to contain the smaller groups.
There will never be an agreement, but there can be a series of co-ordinated military understandings in the event of another security incident on the peninsula.
Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov, offering a more restrained assessment, called Secretary Powell's words "an important signal indicating that the two major nuclear powers will continue to seek understandings in the area of arms control".
Nonetheless, he asked Mr. Ashcroft to consider a proposed bill he provided today that would incorporate some of those understandings in the law while giving Congress a role in the enterprise.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts … This was typical Malcolm X: to discard false understandings in light of reality, to remain dedicated to the truth.
This Agreement, together with any documents referred to in it, constitutes the entire and sole agreement between the parties with respect to its subject matter and supersedes any and all previous agreements and understandings in respect thereof, whether written or oral.
