This phrase is incomprehensible.

Their reasons are entirely understandable.

Such doubts are understandable.

The concern was understandable radiation is very frightening.

women should not be understood

These are relatively infrequent and poorly understood.

Thus the control of the process is not well understood.

This outlook is understandable, but shortsighted.

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There is an understandable desire to want to cut through the verbiage and shake people by the shoulders.

Such concerns are understandable but manifestly exaggerated.

As of February 2006, the phenomenon was not yet well understood.

Clinical features are not well understood and there are no characteristic xanthomas.

This agenda might seem selfish, though understandable from the point of view of an oil billionaire.

Doing Business has been a leader in synthesizing subjective and quantitative data to create understandable metrics.

It is not well understood, but geomagnetic storms may vary with Earth's seasons.

Within a black hole the matter is in a state that is not currently understood.

It is an understandable, pragmatic suggestion but not necessarily a good one.

People are skeptical for understandable reasons, and in the case of the credit crisis, angry.

Birds indulge in a peculiar behaviour called anting that, as yet, is not fully understood.

The mechanism by which the RITS complex induces heterochromatin formation and organization is not well understood.

It can also refer to the ongoing attempts at making legal language more comprehensible to laypeople.

Whatever the case, for many Germans the capitalist allocation processes they are seeing make no sense.

If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.

Gonadogenesis is not fully understood, however, the importance of the GON 4 gene is apparent.

Communicate new legislation and policies as soon and as widely as possible, in language understandable by all.

action that should be taken is not taken, because orders are not understood or are simply ignored

And, sooner rather than later, it needs to define precisely, and with reference to understood and accepted principles, what its claims actually are.

The one that understandably gets the most attention is the capacity to mount a rapid and effective response.

Those who argue that suicide bombers express understandable grudges have themselves sold out their freedom.

It is fundamentally important for the process to be transparent, understandable and easily accessible to citizens.

From Mississippi to Maine, and from New York to New Orleans, America s written language is the same and the spoken language is understandable to all.

Climate change is much more complicated, involving open, complex, and imperfectly understood systems.

The causes of growing inequality within countries are well understood, and it is not necessary to belabor them here.

But, during the 1990 s, and for reasons that are still not fully understood, the virus exploded into the general population.

By and large, economists and other social scientists have neglected the history of Jews and capitalism, for reasons that are understandable, though unconvincing.

Decoding is the reverse process, converting code symbols back into a form that the recipient understands.

Those who lived in Moscow in the late 1990's frequently encountered odd and mostly incomprehensible billboards.

Such temptations are understandable, and need not be animated by improper motives.

However, English is widely understood, in particular in Bangkok, where it is almost the major commercial language.

Yet events like the Great Depression, as well as the recent crisis, will never be fully understood without understanding bubbles.

Operators across the Pacific and the United States may have heard signals from the downed Electra but these were unintelligible or weak.

The doubts and the suspicions on both sides may be understandable, but they need to be addressed through constructive engagement and sustained bilateral contacts.

Only where the meaning and content of digital media and information systems are well understood is migration possible, as is the case for office documents.

German leaders opposition to every proposal for institutional reform may be excusable now, in the run up to the general election in September.