Sentence examples for understood in the first from inspiring English sources
"Most of the tricks he had in his bag when I was with him, I never understood in the first place.
Posada understood in the first inning that Clemens was not throwing as hard as he usually does -- "He didn't have the good fastball," Posada said -- and the radar gun readings reflected this.
When I met my wife, a divorced mother of four children, in the most bizarre of circumstances (thank you, World of Warcraft), I was so infatuated I didn't even realize I was diving into a situation I'd never really understood in the first place.
In a sense, everything about Art Basel can be understood in the first hour of the first day, when the fair opens to those whose spending habits afford them the label of V.I.P. Deposited curbside by a fleet of black Mercedes, they stand at the front door of the convention center in this austere Swiss town waiting to stampede in for a day of high-octane networking.
In this article, Quine's criterion and quantifier criteria more generally—have always been understood in the first, stronger way.
It's a classic problem that arises whenever a new term enters the general financial lexicon without being properly understood in the first place.
Knowledge comes in through the eye, is processed in the first chamber, understood in the second (the soul) and stored by memory in the third.
But if God is understood in the second way, Ockham thinks that it cannot be shown that there is only one god.
Because non-naturalism is far more often understood in the third of these three ways I shall henceforth use 'non-naturalism' with the third of these three meanings unless otherwise noted.
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize-winning novelist Rutgers University I have often wished that Jefferson had not used that phrase "the pursuit of happiness" as the third right — although I understand in the first draft it was "life, liberty and the pursuit of property".
Anyone who has spent any time around horses has seen a rider who meets frustration by increasing the force of pulls and kicks that the horse doesn't understand in the first place.
