The blatant confusion swirling around the status of a major piece of federal legislation is understandable, even if not entirely defensible.
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Its jumpiness about the Fed's quirky new notion of declaring a bias is understandable, even if it may not be justified by the record.
And it is understandable, even right, that a mid-sized European power should occasionally perceive its interests in the world as being different from America's.
It would have been understandable, even commendable, to have cited such qualities in a call for legislators to come together as our troops do to accomplish the difficult missions at hand.
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But even with these kinds of understandable limitations, we have a very good idea of what is going on.
Scepticism was understandable, since an even deadlier wave of rainwater mixed with sewage engulfed the city last winter, prompting another investigation and promised cures.
It is understandable that we get emotional and even angry about it, especially when someone else is saying that we should do more or that they should do less.
English is now a truly global one and, backed by the weight of American culture and money, is widely for understandable reasons seen as a threat to French culture even in France.
This is understandable, of course, but underscores the urgent need for administrative clarification or even direct guidance that entrepreneurship is an encouraged pursuit.
This is due less to inherent modesty than to an understandable desire by entrepreneurs to avoid drawing the attention of the taxman or his even more grasping cousin the gangster.
When both of these are potentially in the public eye, that creates understandable concerns that a rogue agent could hike someone's rates without consent -- even the email address BT uses to confirm changes is only chosen on the spot, which could keep the change a secret early on.
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Gypsy-gadje relations are made even trickier where traditional groups still observe laws shaped by a sense of imminent defilement, the idea (more understandable when framed within an Indian caste system) that contact with gadje, particularly sexual contact, is a kind of pollution punishable by banishment.
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