Sentence examples for understood the possibility from inspiring English sources

Commissioner Bud Selig said he understood the possibility of that development, but he defended the desire for the Expos to break even.

At the heart of it is the strict old-world father: a preacher who called hip-hop "bum music" and "never understood the possibility that the music could do more than just celebrate the lowlife".

Although the long-term outcome of leaving small contralateral tumor focus after hemithyroidectomy remains not well understood, the possibility of locoregional recurrence remains.

Most of our patients were concerned about facial deformities after surgery, and understood the possibility of late complications, such as eye-related complications, after therapy and preferred RADPLAT.

His biographer Burton Hersh suggested that Teddy had understood the possibilities of the Senate before Bobby died.

"I hate to sound patronizing about a king, but he has quickly understood the possibilities of his role".

The guitarist and tinkerer supreme Les Paul understood the possibilities; in the early 1940's, he put pickups, frets and a bridge on a simple plank.

"One design and technology teacher last week said to me that if she had understood the possibilities when she was at school, she would have studied engineering instead of teaching.

Ever the pragmatist, Bismarck understood the possibilities, obstacles, and advantages of a unified state.

"The Monsanto scientists understand" the possibility of resistance, said Joseph Di Tomaso, a weed specialist at the University of California at Davis.

To better understand the possibility of H5N1 making a similar transformation, two teams of scientists recently manipulated the virus until it could spread through the air from one ferret to another.