Sentence examples for was generally understood from inspiring English sources

The original was generally understood as an outcry against the war.

Justice Story wrote that the "trial by jury" guaranteed by the Constitution was "generally understood to mean..

Foreign officials working on the elections said it was generally understood that they would be held in mid-October.

The temperance cause (temperance in those days was generally understood to mean total abstinence) was promoted mostly by oratory.

"It was generally understood between us as a result of the way our working relationship had evolved".

It was generally understood that if a nation slaughtered people within its own borders, neighboring countries would not intervene.

"Proletarian" relations are generally understood in terms of capitalist dispossession.

The main tool is, generally understood, polar decomposition.

This is generally understood to be the heart of Mueller's investigation.

This, she says, is how the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama is generally understood.

COMPUTERS figure more in the making of contemporary art than is generally understood.