Sentence examples for understood bad things from inspiring English sources

My mother had died suddenly less than two years before, so I understood "bad things" could happen; but a president was meant to be above such possibilities – not God, but invulnerable like a god, honoured and safe.

They didn't understand what I meant when I talked about malware and botnets as a tech geek dad but they understood that bad things are out there in cyberspace when they read the comic and saw the images.

Now Cavendish understood how bad things were.

When I was in Washington recently, I heard some members of the administration complain that people hadn't really understood how bad things were when they came to office.

Each time politicians blame "speculators" (see article), investors wonder if they understand how bad things are (or indeed that investors have a choice).

But because everything is out of sight, no one really understands how bad things have become".

To fully understand how bad things have to get before baseball steps in and makes this kind of move, consider that the Mets are still being allowed to run themselves.

Consultation with child psychologists apparently preceded Time's decision to run the image, but the magazine decided that in the end it was more important for children (and us) to understand that "bad things do happen to people" and we must feel sorry for them.

"And I thought, 'Is that what this guy says when he meets with the president?' He just doesn't understand how bad things are".

"What I'm just trying to get them to understand is bad things happen and you can still win.

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten -- and they're talking about it.