Sentence examples for understood him to be from inspiring English sources

His signed epigraph reverses what we understood him to be when we first met him.

They also understood him to be saying that his multivitamins were a cure for HIV.

She understood him to be more confident of quick success, though, than he really was.

"What I understood him to be saying is that you can be who you pretend to be," she says.

I went to these lengths because I understood him to be perhaps the world's expert in this particular syndrome.

They had been studying Cohen for years and understood him to be a rapacious consumer of information about his stocks.

Asked what he thinks of Mr. McAuliffe, Mr. Racicot said, "I understand him to be gregarious and likable, perhaps a little more verbose than I am".

That is, the traditional reading of justification in Paul understands him to be arguing and thinking forward, from a nasty, legalistic, and essentially Jewish, plight, to a solution which is a gospel generously grasped by faith alone.

"We understood him to say there's not a problem with the law as it's written," she said.

Like Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, who fought the rise of Jim Crow laws after Reconstruction and told his black parishioners that they had every right to believe that God was a Negro, Wright saw himself as and Obama understood him to be an inheritor of the prophetic tradition, not an accommodationist, and hardly a politician.

Such, we understand him to mean, are the enormous conveniences in this respect that we tend to become lazy.