Sentence examples for was partly understandable from inspiring English sources

While Motherwell's 3 0 defeat to Steaua Bucharest was partly understandable – Motherwell, basically, are not too hot and the new manager, Jim Gannon, is in the process of rebuilding a team which has lost its best players – Sigma Olomouc's 5 1 demolition of Aberdeen at Pittodrie was a staggering result.

But perhaps even that was partly understandable – it's hard to imagine the level of celebrity with which he'd had to come to terms in the previous four years, or the physical and emotional turmoil he'd gone through as a result of that battered knee.

This is partly understandable.

It's partly understandable.

The reasons are partly understandable and partly maddening.

But the faculty's attitude is partly understandable.

The manager's caution is partly understandable and, if anything, Levein is renowned as a pragmatist.

Had Srebotnik been one of the many up-and-coming, career-hungry eastern European teenagers pouring on to the circuit, then it might have been partly understandable.

This is partly understandable considering that a) Blanche appears to have been asleep for the last 15 years and so is just bobbing there, vestigially and b) evidence accumulates throughout the book that Blanche isn't asleep at all, but is actually awake and a murderer.

Consumers are also not convinced of the environmental benefits of these new cars, which is partly understandable regarding the current electricity mix in European countries.

But, the actor suggested, the timidity of the politicians was partly explained by an understandable fear that the papers would reveal embarrassing details about the private life of anyone who stood up to them.