Word: comprehendingly
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...with community members. If the University is interested in promoting justice, then we believe that the outdated pedagogy of the English aristocracy is the wrong way to go about it. This way, the student body has limited knowledge of the punishments meted out for particular crimes and cannot therefore comprehend the seriousness of various infractions beforehand. Neither can we have assurance of the fairness or equality of sentencing handed down by the professors and deans of the Ad Board...
...statement, repeating the horror that had engulfed her family since Feb. 4. "Our Matty had been hurt," she said, referring to her eight-month-old son. "We soon learned our baby Matthew was dying. We couldn't believe it. It was all inconceivable, and it was beyond us to comprehend that our Matty was dying because someone we trusted had hurt him." She recalled in stark detail the hopelessness of the situation: her son, who was on life support, was brain dead. On Feb. 9, she said, "we made the most painful decision in our lives...
...Truthfully, most people who come here read science and technology books, not The New York Times," he says. "They don't try to comprehend new views on democracy...
...Gaonkar said he believed that theories cannot comprehend these episodic objects...
...Adams, the key to reading is that words must be recognized almost instantly so that the brain can be free to comprehend what is being read. Eye-movement studies show that readers do fixate on virtually every letter in the text. It has also been shown that readers "sound out" words unconsciously. Each letter, then, must be sounded out with incredible speed. Of course, in English there are many different ways for sounds to be represented by letters. In Adams' scheme, a reader does not have to learn all these combinations; once phonemic awareness is established and some sound-letter...