understanding
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"That pattern of disqualification with respect to state, but not federal offices provides 'persuasive evidence of a general understanding' that the States lacked enforcement power with respect to the latter."
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
She then wrote, however, that “such memory loss still may factor into the ‘rational understanding’ analysis that Panetti demands.”
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2019
“We’d go ‘peace, love and understanding’ with these hand signals when we were saying goodbye,” says Creed over the phone from his home in London.
From The Guardian • May 2, 2016
He said the company had 'a false set of understanding' of Fed requirements going into that test and has since been working constantly to improve its management.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2014
Prayer must be rational and within the bounds of possibility, offered ‘with the understanding’ as well as ‘with the spirit,’ or it becomes mere extravagance.”—The apostle gives a twofold answer to this kind of scepticism.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.
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