Word: comprehendingly
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...Yemen is the U.S.'s "most fragile ally." But our country does a good job on its own of keeping terrorists busy there and all around the world. We invade countries to spread our form of government, then we fail to comprehend their ancient tribal systems, their religious systems and their views about marriage and family structure. The rise of terrorist activity over the past decade should at last lead us to look more carefully at ourselves, not the people chewing khat in Yemen...
...wonder: How can anybody possibly learn under these conditions? The answer, of course, is that they cannot. Students’ mental aptitude and willingness to learn becomes irrelevant. The level of activity and disorder fosters an atmosphere where you literally cannot hear yourself think, let alone comprehend new ideas and concepts...
...unsuccessfully—to identify his mother among the groups of prisoners. It is the muteness of these historical documents—the disparity between their silence and the horror which they record—that induces psychological torpor in Austerlitz, and allow us, as readers, to comprehend the meaning of his trauma...
...June 25, Michael Jackson's longtime collaborator Kenny Ortega had little time to comprehend his friend's death, let alone grieve over it. Hollywood's hottest choreographer-director went from preparing Jackson's 50-date London concert series to setting the paces of the pop icon's star-studded memorial to directing the behind-the-scenes film of Jackson's rehearsals for the ill-fated tour. This Is It opens on Oct. 28 for a limited two-week run with a simultaneous premiere in 15 cities around the world. Ortega spoke to TIME about the film, which he calls...
...right to know if that messenger is a compensated mouthpiece? Murphy insists that all tweets brokered through his site carry some form of disclosure, but it's all too easy for a reader to gloss over the "sponsored" tag at the end of the message or not entirely comprehend what it signifies...