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Yet Richard Jerram, chief Asian economist at the investment bank Macquarie in Singapore, said the measured response of policy makers across Asia was understandable to a certain extent.

Certainly the Khalīfah's government was autocratic, but, while autocracy may be repugnant to European democrats, it not only was understandable to the Sudanese but appealed to their deepest feelings and attitudes formed by tribe, religion, and past experience with the centralized authoritarianism of the Ottomans.

One Changing Times regular, Larry Shewark, a retired New York State trooper, said: "Ed called himself 'a professional saloonist.' He listened to your story, jazzed it up and cleaned it up, and wrote it so that it was understandable to everyone".

So it was understandable to contemplate the question on the crawl: "Is Hell Freezing Over?" If Hades is icing up, then a great deal of that freeze emanates from one Johnnie B. Baker Jr., the first-year manager of the Cubs.

It wasn't long before Chagall's poetry was understandable to the American audience, even before his native tongue was.

It was understandable to think buyers would start a bidding war for your house, and someone would wave wads of cash at you.

That's understandable, to a certain sensibility.

That's understandable, to a certain degree.

It is understandable to a certain extent.

And the confusion is understandable, to a degree.

As we stand on the cusp of this New America, it's understandable to feel some anxiety.