Sentence examples for was commonly understood from inspiring English sources

"Make it happen," the editor said, which was commonly understood in the newsroom as code for "make it up if you have to".

"I've been teaching in this field for 30 years, and even back then it was commonly understood that quotas were a bad idea," Professor Walker said.

Although the official cause of his death was respiratory complications, it was commonly understood that he died of a broken heart.

The boundaries of Rupert's Land were never clearly defined, but the area was commonly understood to extend from Labrador to the Rocky Mountains and from the headwaters of the Red River to Chesterfield Inlet on Hudson Bay.

"When one enters into a marriage, you don't say, 'Oh boy, I'm going to benefit society!' " The questioning seemed to occasionally fluster Mr. Cooper, whose voice rose as he told the judge that the central procreative aspect of marriage was commonly understood in legal writings, unless it "was written by one of their experts or written over the course of the last 30 years".

Thus, in order to complete our survey of the relevant Aristotelian background, we need to consider briefly how this chapter was commonly understood by medieval philosophers.

That's not a restaurant as it's commonly understood; it's Brigadoon".

Since then, the phrase "penguin media" has been commonly understood in my country.

They worry that the supply of homes overshot demand by far more than is commonly understood.

Industrial ceramics are commonly understood to be all industrially used materials that are inorganic, nonmetallic solids.

Yellow, for falls, is commonly understood as a symbol for caution, whether by janitors mopping floors or by traffic engineers.