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How to use the word understands in a Sentence?

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Being born in a divided family doesn't give you the right to create havoc. All mankind has the notion of justice ingrained within them, even an infant, who, while feeding on his mother's breast, understands when reprimanded that what he did was wrong.

Christen Kuikoua

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He lived here in the past so he understands the situation.

Michael Landau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was on his way to see a friend when he got murdered. he lived here in the past so he understands the situation.

Michael Landau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Service in the zone of the special military operation – everyone understands this very well – is associated with colossal physical and psychological stress, with everyday risks to health and life, therefore, I consider it necessary to establish for the mobilized, in general for all military personnel, for all participants of the special military operation, including volunteers, regular leave lasting at least 14 days and at least once every six months, excluding travel time, so that each soldier has the opportunity to visit families, to be close to relatives and friends.

Getty Images

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are wanting to say — ‘we’ being a lot of different people — that he gets us, [Jesus] understands us. He loves who we hate. I think we have to let the public know and create a movement.

Hobby Lobby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it’s really, really important that everyone understands – and this is the doctors, the nurses, the women themselves – that screening is not a one size fits all recommendation. We cannot just make one general recommendation to the entire population because individual women have different levels of risks of developing breast cancer.

Ruth Oratz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t have any robustly funded public education campaigns so that the general public understands the risks of children being around unsecured firearms, and that is because of the politics around firearms.

Annie Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

AMLO will try to reassert himself. He understands US has power. He flirts with pushing back rhetorically, but doesn’t go over the edge.

Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He asked me if it was the same situation. I said, ‘No, Mr. President, you had me beat on that. I’m already old enough to be sworn in on January 3.’ So, it was great to talk with him. You know, he was elected at a very young age, too, so he understands that experience.

Maxwell Frost

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no prospects. I’m an adult, and I didn’t exactly have all my life figured out, but all in all I understood what would happen next. Now nobody understands anything. People don’t even understand what will happen to them tomorrow. the things we held dear, like the memory of the Second World War, for instance, became completely compromised.

Andrei Soldatov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think anybody who knows what Republican National Committee actually does understands that we build the infrastructure, we do the voter registration, we are doing community centers and outreach, we build a road that the candidates drive on. We put the candidates in a position to win, but we do n’t do the messaging for the candidates, and we do n’t pick the candidates. LEE ZELDIN URGES RNC'S Ronna McDaniel NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION AS CHAIR.

Ronna McDaniel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Chicago needs a leader who understands our city, its people, its history and its character. It needs someone who is a consensus builder, someone who is willing to work with everyone from across the city, who doesn’t get into feuds and has a thick skin. None of those things describe our current mayor.

Roderick Sawyer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need a leader who will fight for Chicago, not against everyone else. We need a leader who is from this city and knows its people. We need a leader who understands how government works on all levels and has the experience to back it up.

Kambium Buckner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

One more thing they need to do is focus on crime, when you go and say that you’re going to glorify criminals instead of having the backs of law enforcement, don’t be shocked when crime goes up. Don’t be shocked when murders go up. We’ve got to have a Senate that understands that we’ve gotta put law and order back in place.

Nikki Haley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I just think it's really important to have someone in office who really understands women's issues and really cares about women's experience, especially those living in poverty who don't have access to healthcare. I don't think our current governor has that understanding.

Abby Bartolick

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Michelle Steel employs the same disinformation that has led to an increase in violence against members of the Asian American community, while shamelessly smearing a member of the U.S. Naval Reserves, as a Taiwanese American who holds a Top Secret security clearance, Lt. Commander Jay Chen deeply understands the threat China poses to the United States. While Confucius Classrooms were widely accepted across the United States a dozen years ago, including by the State Department, the Chinese Communist Party’s evolution as an aggressor towards the United States and its democratic allies has further informed the U.S. State Department’s evaluation of these programs, and Lt. Commander Chen remains aligned with their analysis.

Lindsay Barnes

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Florida is a law-and-order state because we put the safety of Floridians first and we stand up for law enforcement and reject the Left’s anti-police movement, we are focused on protecting victims and not coddling criminals, and no one knows that better than Dave, who served Florida’s communities. Commissioner Kerner knows first-hand the threat of the Defund the Police movement and understands the important role that our local law enforcement officers play in keeping Florida safe.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Stephen Goepfert understands that the President wants -- and that he's at his best -- when he's with the American people.

Annie Tomasini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We've made ourselves defenseless because we assume that everybody understands who we are, what we're doing, why we're doing it and how we do it.

The Atlantic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm not making a judgment about the culpability of somebody that was involved in this. The information we're after. But I do believe because of the great historical significance of this invasion of the home, that we need total transparency. And I believe particularly Director Wray of the FBI needs to make very clear that he understands, and I know to some extent he understands because I had whistleblowers tell me about the political bias that some people that are high up making decisions to investigate or not investigate. And he moved that person out of it. So he knows he has a problem. How big the problem is, I don't really know how big it is.

Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He wants to take on a new challenge, the club understands.

Carlo Ancelotti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe he understands the challenges of our effort in Ukraine, but the politicians and foreign policy establishment are making strategic decisions, not military leaders, this should trouble all Americans as these are the know-nothing know-it-alls who oversaw the debacle in Afghanistan, and other foreign policy blunders, and have faced zero accountability.

Victoria Spartz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He understands the gravity of what happened, and we're focused on getting him well. It's definitely going to be a process and he's trying to make it through.

Andre Wharton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The city is not as safe as it should be and we don’t have bodies in position, which has a downhill effect, city leadership I don’t think understands that when your cops don’t feel like they’re being supported by their city leaders, there’s no morale.

Dennis Farris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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