Sentence examples for understood against from inspiring English sources

The State’s interest must be understood against this background.

Giotto's commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil.

Religious experience must be understood against the background of a general theory of experience as such.

Rather, this development is best understood against a backdrop of attrition, combined with new, post Arab Spring regional realities.

Such actions can be understood against the background of the experiences of the capitalists in the previous few years.

Text always needs to be understood against the realities of societal organization, prevailing class dynamics, and the imperatives of capital accumulation.

This hypothesis assumes that speakers and listeners achieve success in communication because they maintain detailed models of what the other person knows, and speak and understand against these models.

"Some of these kids were 18 or 19 years old, drafted to fight a war they didn't understand against a people they didn't really know," said Jastrow.

But, just like the failed settlement in Washington, it can be understood only against the background of the wider tobacco war.

But Bertelsmann is understood to be against this.

I have never understood the prejudice against gnomes.