In government,industry, diplomacy -- in most anything those who understand the nuts and bolts are the most important.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

"We'll just keep re-electing, re-electing and re-electing until we get people in there who understand what the constitution means to all of us."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

That's really the classic American screwball romantic comedy formula I was trying to find the middle path where people who understand classic romantic comedy would really respond to it, but it would appear fresh and new enough to appeal to a younger audience."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Only one who is deaf can understand the loving way I talked to my dolls,to the stones, to birds and animals.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

Prison spokesman Mark Vernarelli says most teens who visit come to understand what even one bad decision can mean.

VOA: special.2010.11.11

"Not everyone is Christian. But I would hope that most people who celebrate Christmas in any form understand its origins.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

"Germont and his policemen could not find the letter, because they did not try to understand the mind of the man who stole it.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

(SAYING) Sariyev says he wants everyone to understand that those who today hang around offices planning to get into the raiding business or racketeering - the government's position is firm.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Well we will send them a message that this is our land!" Avatar also features sci-fi veteran Sigourney Weaver as the scientist who creates the program to learn about and understand the Na'vi.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

"I would not get into specifics, but what I understand is that people who have been arrested are U.S nationals, but some of them of Pakistan origin, some of them of other descent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"We don't understand how come a mediator who was supposed to defend the cause of democracy will help us to embrace something we've been fighting for nine months, thinking that we were willing or keen to accept a token of gratitude from the general,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27