If the French preferred for 70 years to avert their gaze from the Wall, it is perhaps for understandable reasons.
English is now a truly global one and, backed by the weight of American culture and money, is widely for understandable reasons seen as a threat to French culture even in France.
Bear in mind, too, that the Chinese have a deep pride in their own cultural achievements, many believing that, for understandable reasons, their civilisation, and their history, is greater than all others.
Companies, for understandable reasons, tend to wait till they see a consistent pattern of rising demand from customers before they embark on ambitious plans to expand capacity and hire lots of new people.
What people need to understand is that this vote, which is always one that the Congress is resistant to taking for understandable reasons, is to lift the debt ceiling in order to pay the obligations that the government has already made.
The British and French were less than enthusiastic -- for understandable historical reasons -- but Kohl's decisive, persuasive ways won over the U.S. With our backing (and the reluctant support of Britain and France), Kohl cut a brilliant deal with the Soviet Union, making it possible to unite the two Germanys within 12 months of the Wall's collapse.
Yet countries such as Britain, Denmark and Sweden have perfectly understandable political and economic reasons for holding back for the time being.
Here the reader is told that Stalin's crimes, while vast and terrible, were things which a sane, intelligent, sometimes kindly human being might do for understandable if not defensible reasons.
Their reasons are understandable looking at the current situation.
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Their decision to switch the tie to Highbury for financial reasons was understandable, however, and Boro could at least say they had tackled some of the world's best players as Arsenal fielded the likes of Robert Pires in their starting line-up.
"The players' union was largely uncooperative, for reasons that I thought were largely understandable, " Mitchell said.
This conclusion, though understandable, is, for a variety of reasons, mistaken.
For all these reasons and more, it's understandable to wonder why, with two first-round picks in this year's NFL draft, the Jets didn't select an offensive player Thursday.
The reasons for countries' reluctance to share information are understandable, though hardly defensible.
Look, one of the reasons I created the whole Economic Revolution thing here on Forbes was to try to knit together an understandable narrative about the future economy that a broader audience could read, digest, and understand without an advanced degree in the subject.
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