He contacted her later that morning and told her that he had been taken hostage and told her that he understood that the kidnappers were demanding the hostages be exchanged for al Qaeda prisoners in Mali, the spokesman said.

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In the sad, grimy little church, he had understood how her imagination had been excited and still was, but the poverty of the place had a finality about it, even as the attempts to disguise its neglect had.

NEWYORKER: Faith

Though he had never understood where her instincts came from-certainly not from him-he saw it as his duty and his pleasure to love her for what she was.

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He may not have completely understood her business, either: AOL executives say that Armstrong talked a lot about the importance of recruiting hordes of free bloggers--who, in fact, are not the main drivers of traffic at HuffPo.

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Priscilla said that she thinks her son understood why he was kicked out of the dealership.

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Several times Shipman upbraided his own counsel for her convoluted language, insisting she rephrase the question, though he had clearly understood it all along.

BBC: Behind the mask

But after being taken to hospital in Gloucester, and in a "rare moment of lucidity", Mrs Fuller told her sister that she and her husband were splitting up, claiming that "they had talked and he understood".

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Elaine said that she understood why: by refusing to grant her a job, Jesus was showing her that he wanted her to depend on him alone.

NEWYORKER: Seeing and Believing

Though he was, as a young man, sympathetic to Algerian nationalism, he understood in his marrow that the story of colonialist exploitation had to include the image of his mother on her knees, scrubbing.

NEWYORKER: Facing History