Sentence examples for understood as a kind of from inspiring English sources

Serious scientists know science cannot advance unless knowledge is understood as a kind of commons.

Hartman argued that de Man's later criticism could be understood as a kind of atonement for his youthful errors.

Shariah is best understood as a kind of higher law, albeit one that includes some specific, worldly commands.

It's a difficult term to translate, but probably best understood as a kind of studied carelessness in manner – an ease and grace in the courtier's conversation and behaviour that covers up the effort of projecting an agreeable persona.

Even in early 2008, at that heady moment when the thought of a black President became a real possibility, there was a cynical murmur among African-Americans that Obama's election — like so many other examples of putative racial progress — would be widely understood as a kind of gift to black people.

In recent years, therapy has been televised in more explicit ways, on shows like "Celebrity Rehab," "Family Therapy," and "Couples Therapy," all of which air or have aired on VH1 a channel previously known for its classic-rock documentaries and now understood as a kind of bizarre, round-the-clock looking glass.

Lewis treats a language as an association between expressions and meanings, realized in a particular community through a convention, understood as a specific kind of regularity in the use of the expressions with these meanings.

Even the involuntary capture of attention by perceptually salient stimuli should, Wu thinks, be understood as involving a kind of readiness to act on the things attended (op cit, §3).

If we add the remarks Nagel opened his discussion on reduction with namely, that reduction has to be understood as a certain kind of explanation (1961: 338)—the core idea of the Nagel model is fully characterized.

If all indigenous American music was seeded, in part, by the Celtic ballads and hymns brought to Appalachia via broadsides in the eighteenth century — which melded with the West African spirituals and work songs sung by slaves — then northern soul could, like the second wave of rock and roll, be understood as a funny kind of return, now transmuted and many centuries removed.

If all indigenous American music was seeded, in part, by the Celtic ballads and hymns brought to Appalachia via broadsides in the eighteenth century which melded with the West African spirituals and work songs sung by slaves then northern soul could, like the second wave of rock and roll, be understood as a funny kind of return, now transmuted and many centuries removed.