Word: comprehendingly
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Student opinion is divided over the position of Class Marshal. Some students interviewed said they could not comprehend why anyone would want to take on the lifetime responsibility...
There is a real difference between calling oneself an activist and actually being one. So many people are attempting to find their place in a community and comprehend their duty to that community. To me, Mandela is an individual who understands that duality perfectly. His statement of defense during the Rivonia trial reveals this...
...know (or will soon find out), it is not pretty. Having gone through shopping period last year, I assumed I was prepared. The night before, I studied all my options. I memorized all the key CUE figures, averaged them, compared them and cross-indexed them. I tried vainly to comprehend the deeper significance of phrases like "a smattering find Professor X's lectures uninspiring" and "a significant minority grumble about the workload." For advice, I phoned close friends and e-mailed total strangers...
...hadn't the spacecraft responded to controllers' signals before? Perhaps, suggested an ESA scientist, the probing signals were too complex for the weakened SOHO to comprehend. Early in August controllers sent a much simpler message. Result: contact! SOHO responded by transmitting its carrier signal. It was still alive and, as its batteries gradually charged, able to transmit a modicum of data...
...comes the chaos that challenges patriotic fervor as well as the mind's capacity to comprehend horror--the D-day landing on Omaha: seasick soldiers slaughtered the minute the ramps on their landing boats are lowered; other men clambering over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than...