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.
Woodson's heavy reliance on scorers understandable in a series where the stingy Pacers held the Knicks to an average of 89.5 points helps explain why the New York's 18th-ranked defense was surprisingly poor this year despite Woodson's reputation on that side of the ball.
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.
But while such a choice is understandable, it should be understood as a choice, and not as the inevitable outcome of Russian imperialism.
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The secular parties speak largely for a shrinking elite that has understandable but excessive fears of a rising Islamic fundamentalism turning Turkey into a new Iran.
It is an understandable sentiment in a country seeking to atone for inventing fascism.
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.
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