Other cases included women who were unable to understand the dosage for medications for their children.
Dias's black companions were unable to understand those people, who fled but later returned to attack the Portuguese.
I know of more than one Italian American family in which the original husband and wife – the grandparents of the latest generation – were forced to communicate in English because they were unable to understand each other's respective dialects.
The Tomkeys would have thought she was having a heart attack… It occurred to me that they needed a guide, someone to point out all the things they were unable to understand.
We made the terrible mistake of turning it into an issue between ourselves and Castro... We were unable to understand why the rest of the world didn't get it.
Wilson and Reilly, who first contacted the Guardian with her concerns about government schemes last year, had also argued that the government had failed to publish any official information about the schemes so their clients were unable to understand what their real responsibilities were and what they were compelled to do without falling foul of the rules.
Accusations about voting problems have also been made by at least 200 Puerto Rican voters in Orange County, in Central Florida, who said they had not been allowed to vote when they could not produce more than one piece of identification or were unable to understand the ballots because there were no Spanish interpreters at the polls.
Defence lawyers complained they were unable to understand some of the recordings being played because of poor technical quality.
We were unable to understand why they cheated, primarily because both students refused to admit that they cheated, even when presented with irrefutable evidence of their breaches of integrity.
(p. 35 36) Other aspects of scientific practice "Virtually all biochemist, including Herman, were unable to understand the arguments of the X-ray people" (p. 23) As model building did not appeal to her [Rosalind], at no time did she mention Pauling's triumph over the A-helix.
Jurors were unable to understand the evidence.
