Sentence examples for was a certain understanding from inspiring English sources

By the time Smith and Iyer met to record the suite, in November, "there was a certain understanding, a certain set of governing ideas," Iyer said.

When we went after the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 there was a certain understanding that we had the ability and the right to defend ourselves and the fact that al-Qaida had been harboured by the Taliban was legitimate.

When number crunchers start running the industry there's a certain understanding that gets lost.

For me and anybody of that mindset or lifestyle who chooses to live outside the law, there's a certain understanding: It's never right in any instance to take your situation and then pass it on to somebody else to suffer the consequences of your actions.

There was a certain tacit understanding between us to accept certain pathways as our best selves, and not challenge that too much".

Occasionally, there was a certain gulf in understanding: yesterday, he'd been sitting up at a lunch counter when his neighbor asked genially, "So what language do they speak in Europe, then?" But such details would be useful for his American novel.

He said, "What you have been telling us this week about romanticism and the death of God where religion becomes art is premised on a certain understanding of God, namely that God is unitary and infinite.

What you find in her writing, rather, is a certain ruefulness — an understanding that life is a crapshoot that's been rigged, but to whose advantage?

You see, there has always been a certain lack of understanding between the two sides, but they have often overcome that to strike minideals and even Oslo.

Don Lemon of CNN said: "There is a certain degree of understanding that comes from minorities, and particularly African-Americans, just because we've lived it".

But when it's a family member and blood is involved, and there's a certain commitment and understanding of a culture, it just makes it a lot more enriching.