Sentence examples for was once understood from inspiring English sources

Medicine was once understood as a moral profession, with physicians as paladins against disease.

The band was once understood as jazz musicians breaking out of traditional roles and taking the next evolutionary step.

Still, the pressure is on to improve something that was once understood to be a lucky side effect to procreation.

It was once understood that men who left the priesthood would relocate at least 500 miles from where anyone might recognize them as priests.

The concept was once understood as rescue from eternal damnation, but in the Age of Anxiety salvation amounts to rescue from meaninglessness.

Nearly half of the American economy is now in financial services — an industry without a product, as "product" was once understood — and many people who have made their fortune in finance are looking for long-term investments in tangible property.

Strictly interpreted, this conception might imply that whatever is once understood has become a piece of knowledge, and thus guides our action (see I. Hadot 1969, 106).

That something else was once generally understood to be Christianity.

Though contemporary physicians are capable of recognizing this disease for what it is, it is interesting to note that Tourette's was once widely understood to be a form of demonic possession, and dealt with accordingly.

By 2013, these ratios have nearly reversed, and families have had to make up for what was once clearly understood to be -- and was funded as such -- a critical public good.

He said that he too "was once young" and understood the public's anger, and conceded that "mistakes were made" and those responsible for them would be punished.