Mr Johnson hopes the voters will remember their liking for pork-barrel spending (a universal preference, but understandable in a poor state).
It is understandable that a new central bank is eager to establish its anti-inflation credentials.
But whereas sex selection may be understandable for a family, it is disastrous for a nation.
That might have been understandable as a response to, say, a surge in demand from China and India.
So Game of Thrones is understandable as a heavily-pirated show but some other shows on there are headscratchers.
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But it is understandable that a brand-new red-Green government should have been treated with circumspection by its partners in such a crisis.
She is interviewed frequently by the media, and she enjoys the intellectual challenge of making her ideas more understandable to a broader audience.
The cause is based on a simple and clearly understandable idea with a significant and far-reaching purpose: To bring people together to save lives.
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Mr Infield said it was understandable that a 15-year-old girl might not want to press charges and she clearly never foresaw what would happen.
It would be entirely understandable for a stock to take a little bit of a breather after such a day, but on Monday afternoon the company had tacked on another 7.7% in heavy volume.
That means there are vast opportunities for Asians to stake Internet territory at home applying and adapting the better ideas while leap-frogging some of the mistakes and missteps made (understandable in a new arena) in Silicon Valley.
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Again, it's understandable that a team would want its players to be as fit as possible, but under the current regime, no one from David Boon to Merv Hughes to Shane Warne would have earned a game for Australia.
Also highlighted was the relevance of setting up structures to protect those who disseminate information, and of information being made public in a language understandable to all sectors of a country's population.
Feeling you have to stay to avoid your party losing a by-election is understandable, up to a point, but bed-blocking forever wastes space and short-changes democracy.
In a nutshell, Buffett looks for companies that have strong brands (which promotes premium pricing) that run understandable businesses with a good return on capital without a lot of debt.
Novelty, the emergence of a New Hotness that has no immediately understandable value, is a big problem in large organizations.
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"It does remove a sensitive issue, thus some relief is understandable, " says a report by Barclays Capital.
If that was an understandable misjudgement against a top class operator, the dismissal of Regan West certainly was not.
Unfortunately, there is nothing memorable or more understandable about putting a bunch of words on a screen.
This is understandable because managing a small sum of money in the early accumulation years is quite different than managing a large sum in retirement.
Understandable though such a reaction would be, it is mistaken.
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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What is more important than just giving a speech and painting a vision, is having a plan that is understandable and that your audience can feel a share in making it happen.
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"In the long-term we should probably choose between either converting it into an understandable compulsory savings scheme or integrating it into a more generous and understandable basic state pension, " he said.
Racing for a cure is understandable, but understanding and reducing the occurrence of the disease would be revolutionary and should be a goal of any corporation whose public image is so inseparable from breast cancer.
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It stands at a crossroads between an understandable desire to retain unionist power on the streets, at a time when it has been forfeited in government, and a lesser, but nonetheless significant role as the expression of the values, religious and moral, of the whole Protestant community.
We found ourselves wishing for the good old days of a nice understandable accounting scandal.
Concerns about immigration are understandable, especially at a time when jobs are in such short supply.
Their stories explain often obscure economic concepts in a readily understandable way.
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