Sentence examples for understood may be from inspiring English sources

The tales, it is understood, may be recycled into literature, but only with the teller's permission.

Conservatism, popularly understood, may be simplistic, ahistorical, even racist, but Loury owes it to his readers to argue this fully and not simply display a smug intellectual disdain or philosophical airiness.

Provocatively, he suggests that "the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for not meeting our every need".

Holism about value, so understood, may be closer to the surface phenomena than Moore's Atomism about value and his doctrine of organic unities, but it creates questions that by itself, it leaves unanswered.

Mechanisms that are as yet poorly understood may be acting in those populations to maintain the necessary genetic diversity for the species to adapt to changing environments.

One of the reasons why the practice of KT is poorly understood may be that KT is a rather abstract notion.

The smallness of our capacity to understand may be revealed to us.

Finding a language they understand may be the best you can manage.

The circle of those who can understand may be as intimate as two, or it can encompass whole communities of strangers.

The alternative to diplomacy with Iran is not only more sanctions but war, which Iranian leaders should understand may be inevitable and Republican leaders should understand must be avoided if possible.

In some corners, it has become too easy to forget that a disease that isn't understood may still be very real.