Sentence examples for was understood until from inspiring English sources

Because it wasn't rape as it was understood until the tough new law passed early in 2014 - after the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus - Ms Shanbaug's attacker got a total of 14 years in jail.

The results cannot be understood until they are decoded - and P&G possessed the key.

By Judith Thurman The consequences of losing a language may not be understood until it is too late.

Many scientific or mathematical concepts cannot be understood until the terms by which they are defined have been grasped.

But the loss of languages passed down for millennia, along with their unique arts and cosmologies, may have consequences that won't be understood until it is too late to reverse them.

But if you think, as I do, that we look to literature to understand ourselves and our place on earth, then belief hasn't been understood until the serious writers have had their say.

The truth is, a director's reasons for making a film often can't be understood until many years after the fact, if indeed they can ever be fully understood.

The relationship of blacks and whites is, after all, "a blood relationship, perhaps the most profound reality of the American experience," and cannot be understood until we recognize how much it contains of "the force and anguish and terror of love".

As New Jersey's law had been understood until now, national political parties were presumed to coordinate with their state parties and nominees for governor, and so were barred from spending money during governor's races except to deliver generic messages.

This was because the stresses involved and the mutiaxial motion of the ankle has not been understood until recently.

The lead theorists say the poison has a time-lag effect which could not be understood until recently.