The origin of writing and reading cannot be understood as a direct evolutionary adaptation.
Multiculturalism, understood as the multiplication of experienced difference, is today at the forefront of social transformation.
On Twitter, commentators traditionally understood as progressives traded statements of support with commonly-known conservatives.
He says Facebook can be understood as the first generally disseminated way of managing identity.
Nonetheless, the new tax law must be understood as a shot across the bow for non-profits.
The ideal of humane efficiency, understood as social responsibility, undergirds all of Foster's work.
Cat memes can be understood as modern icons that celebrate and worship the symbolic cat.
The distinction between job creation and income growth is not as well understood as it should be.
It may be best understood as a mash up of Instagram and group messaging tools like GroupMe and Beluga.
What Western men at one time understood as the truth of existence is now only an absolutely uncertain belief.
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They can be understood as non-linear stories that help individuals derive meaning from the complicated paradoxes of everyday life.
We believe that at least some of the momentum premium can be best understood as a consequence of investor behavioral biases.
The hadith relates to an army arising from Khorasan, usually understood as Central Asia, leading to a confrontation and the end times.
This was widely understood as a heavy hint that the council would be shoved aside if necessary to raise standards in schools.
The SBA loan program is best understood as a subsidy to banks.
The Libyan deployments are best understood as responding to domestic pressures.
New techniques used in the study, such as using ultrasound to measure artery plaque, are generally difficult, and not as well understood as cholesterol lowering, they say.
The state Education Minister, Annette Schaven, argued that the headscarf was political and "understood as a symbol of the exclusion of woman from civil and cultural society".
Currently it is largely understood as a male-to-female phenomenon.
Yet class surely tells more than creed when it comes to American manners, and Romney is better understood as a late-twentieth-century American tycoon than as any kind of believer.
They were values that he had bled for, ideas he had sacrificed for, rights he understood as only someone can who has had them threatened, had them taken away.
In Zao's case, this phenomenon is perhaps best understood as a self-statement: the artist's insistence on his personal and aesthetic identity in the face of the vagaries of borders and time.
An advantage of the resource-based view is its clear analytical framework, where human capital is understood as having four important characteristics: it is valuable, scarce, not easily imitated, and lacks substitutability.
Muslims cannot be understood as an insular migrant minority.
There were limitations in what could be analyzed, due to the inflexibility of data warehouses and relational databases, but the process for cleansing, sorting and analyzing data was well understood as a complete cycle.
While this group is popularly understood as having "opted out, " in my research I found that their "options" typically consisted of working all or nothing, and that their decisions to quit were reluctant and conflicted.
However, this body of work is best understood as a set of exceptions that modifies but leaves intact the canonical model of rational choice, not least since it is irrational to suppose that people in general behave irrationally.
Our campaign resonated with so many because we are in the midst of a shifting cultural tide in which gender based violence -- historically kept private -- is better understood as a pandemic problem, including in the public forum of the Internet.
At the same time, while certain CSR issues like environmental sustainability, diversity and community development are easily understood as a win-win for communities and business, the overall impact of responsible business practices tends to be more complicated and harder to communicate to stakeholders.
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