Sentence examples for understandings- from inspiring English sources

"Our contributions should be to ensure that tensions are de-escalated and understandings between the parties continue to improve".

The Tories always operate through social networks in which understandings are reached without anything being written down or even spoken out loud.

Had the archive been more widely known, international law enforcers say it would have given them new understandings and legal precedents to use in international criminal justice trials.

So, this package is deeply illiberal and departs from shared European understandings of democracy, which should involve a legitimate opposition – in contrast to a "democracy" where one party, whether in or out of power, claims permanently to speak for the nation as a whole.

In any case, the whole idea of sanctions goes against the EU ethos of compromise, mutual accommodation and deference towards national understandings of political values (something that British Eurosceptics often fail to see).

The lack of nuance in our understandings of global cultures reflects the overly simplistic rhetoric of our media sources that feed us this information.

This would be akin to the "understandings" (to avoid attacks on civilians) between the Israeli army and Hizbollah during the last years of Israel's occupation of south Lebanon.Sincere or not, these moves are now buried beneath the rubble of Gaza.

Instead, he is going to Washington on May 20th to reach "understandings" with George Bush on Israel's reservations about the plan.These include Israel's wish to defer any talk of a settlement freeze which, according to the map, should take place this year until the planned negotiations on a final settlement in 2005.

Europe and America have their understandings with most of the governments in this region, about oil and other matters, and do not like to think of a changed future.The possible consolation, if the preceding article is correct, is that the force most likely to displace many existing governments the Islamic revival could in the long run prove a stabler partner for the West.

Despite both sides claiming that certain understandings have been reached, there are still complaints in Tokyo that China is siphoning off Japanese gas.Security issues are another area of tension.

Michigan acknowledges that "people have many different understandings of marriage and the role it should play in society".