Comprehensible Sentence Examples

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  • Her words were barely comprehensible through chattering teeth as she leaned over the stove.

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  • In everything near and comprehensible he had only what was limited, petty, commonplace, and senseless.

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  • Since 1648 it has been the custom of Moorish sultans to despatch superfluous sons and daughters to Tafilalt, and as the males are all sharifs, the fanaticism against Europeans is comprehensible.

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  • It's infuriating, as the concept seems so nearly comprehensible.

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  • Another attempt at reconciliation is set forth in the so-called " system of emanations " in which it is assumed that from the supreme divinity emanated a somewhat lesser world, from this world a second, and so on, until the divine element (of life) became so far weakened and attenuated, that the genesis of a partly, or even wholly, evil world appears both possible and comprehensible.

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  • His ability to render the often abstruse philosophical arguments of Shankara into comprehensible and readable English is without parallel in my experience.

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  • Immortality of the soul, positive freedom of will, and the existence of an intelligent ground of things are speculative ideas practically warranted, though theoretically neither demonstrable nor comprehensible.

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  • The use of a fair amount of white space often helps to make the overall layout comprehensible.

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  • Such publications are not always readily comprehensible to the applied statisticians who will be the most frequent users of the methods.

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  • In the instance of the Robbins problem, the computer demonstration is just barely comprehensible to humans.

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  • Ability to understand and deploy complex political terminology in a comprehensible manner.

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  • A cheer needs to be made up of words that are comprehensible even when muddied by the sound of dozens of voices screaming hoarsely.

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  • The Enell Web site offers a very comprehensive and comprehensible sizing chart to help you select your bra.

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  • The site shows a vaguely comprehensible graphic "case study" in which the line sort of goes "up," which is usually translated as good - but what it actually measures, much less what company it represents, is hard to figure out.

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  • Persia has assumed a comprehensible position as a factor in future Eastern politics.

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  • Finally, we introduce Semantic Negotiation, a process by which two agents can negotiate a mutually comprehensible reference for an object.

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  • By dividing subject areas into smaller, more manageable chunks they can become more easily comprehensible.

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  • Much new information was included, not all of it entirely comprehensible.

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  • How can the treaties be simplified and made more comprehensible for people to understand who does what and at what level?

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  • Presumably, everything has now been rendered perfectly comprehensible.

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  • A major offering of precious metalwork would be completely comprehensible as a response to the crisis of Roman desecration.

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  • Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind.

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  • Shoe Buy.com is one of the best sites to visit because the information about the handbag is quite extensive and comprehensible.

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  • The general effect of the new version is to make the creed more comprehensible, e.g.

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  • The many night scenes are very dark but remain easily comprehensible.

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  • SoapCentral.com is one of the most comprehensible Young and the Restless update sites on the Internet.

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  • The very much smaller society of that day was, of course, more comprehensible to sight and hearing, when once you were within its borders, than the society of this.

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  • It is impossible that there should be liberty, for if so the mechanical order of phenomena, by means of which they are comprehensible, would be disturbed, and we should have an unintelligible world, coupled with the requirement that it shall be understood.

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  • And that other side of life, of which she had never before thought and which had formerly seemed to her so far away and improbable, was now nearer and more akin and more comprehensible than this side of life, where everything was either emptiness and desolation or suffering and indignity.

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  • God is not fully comprehensible by us, says Albert, because the finite is not able to grasp the infinite, yet he is not altogether beyond our knowledge; our intellects are touched by a ray of his light, and through this contact we are brought into communion with him.

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  • The evolution of the distinct business of cotton broking is readily comprehensible when we remind ourselves that the requirements, as regards raw material, of all spinners are much alike generally, and that no spinner could afford to pay an expert to devote himself entirely to purchasing cotton for his mill.

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  • From the point of view that belief and knowledge, based on experience or reasoning, are separate domains with an unexplored sea between and round them, Pascal is perfectly comprehensible, and he need not be taken as a deserter from one region to the other.

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  • His activity was devoted almost exclusively to the struggle between the papacy and the Italian Risorgimento, the history of which is comprehensible only when the influence exercised by his unscrupulous, grasping and sinister personality is fully taken into account.

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  • It is only by the most careful scrutiny, or the exercise of the most piercing insight, that the imperfectly spelled Egyptian has been made to yield up one grammatical secret after another in the light brought to bear upon it from Coptic. Demotic grammar ought soon to be thoroughly comprehensible in its forms, and the study of Late Egyptian should not stand far behind that of demotic. On the other hand, Middle Egyptian, and still mote Old Egyptian, which is separated from Middle Egyptian by a wide gap, will perhaps always be to us little more than consonantal skeletons, the flesh and blood of their vocalization being for the most part irretrievably lost.

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  • With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel's thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself (who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else) was able to do.

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