Sentence examples for without first understanding from inspiring English sources

You cannot begin to understand modern geopolitics without first understanding its intricacies and its aftermath.

But fate and a really hard-headed tour manager had us there and that obvious thing came home to me full force: that you can't begin to understand this continent without first understanding slavery.

You cannot understand the modern world without first understanding the catastrophe that was the First World War.

Linde asks the same question posed by many quantum pioneers a century ago: "Is it really possible to fully understand what the universe is without first understanding what life is?" Linde stops at the threshold of entering the mental universe, merely pointing out that the assumptions of materialism are questionable when reality is examined at deep levels.

He soon found, however, that he could not understand how the minerals had developed without first understanding the geology and origin of the entire formation.

I would never dismiss an alternative therapy without first understanding how it works.

We were living in a world well, we still are where people are very shallow and judge things on the surface, run with their first understanding of something without digging deeper to analyse things.

"At times in foreign policy we make mistakes because we act too quickly without first properly understanding how things really are".

Like going on a trip without an itinerary, walking in the rain without an umbrella, playing a game without first fully understanding all the rules, and skiing off the bunny slope.

"At times in foreign policy we make mistakes because we act too quickly without first properly understanding how things really are". Sure enough, this is recurrent complain among foreign policy geeks, but it takes a certain bravery to say so -- on the record and in the world's most prestigious think tank -- if you are one of those people that actually leads the world's foreign policy.

At that time, my knowledge of the Catholic Church in general and of the Mass in particular was superficial and the priest soon became aware of this, and after we had talked for a little while, and were parting he remarked rather sharply that he didn't think it was possible for anyone to really understand church architecture without first having some understanding of the Mass.