Examples of using Were understandable in English and their translations into Spanish
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Such feelings of gloom were understandable.
The difficulties involved in defining the elements constituting options 1 and 2 of article 14, paragraph(a), were understandable.
We now know that while their fears were understandable, they did not materialize.
The problems that the Costa Rican proposal sought to address, however, were understandable.
While China's needs were understandable, the rest of the world needed China, and it should try to reach an accommodation.
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti said Hernandez's actions were understandable.
The Scientific Committee's expectations regarding data collection were understandable, but not all States could participate immediately or at the required level.
Ms. MEDINA QUIROGA said that Georgia's difficulties during the period of transition were understandable.
Calls for flexibility were understandable, but it was also important to adhere to, and to improve, processes that had served the Organization well for six decades.
The various proposals made by the Secretary-General to ameliorate the cash-flow situation were understandable.
Its imperfections, which were understandable given the complexities of a multilateral negotiation among the Treaty's diverse membership, did not detract from its value.
The report clearlyreflected rising religious tensions, but the difficulties facing Governments were understandable.
The CHAIRPERSON said that the difficulties facing ILO were understandable, since the participation of children was a fairly new concept that had been raised by the Convention.
It had by no means been an easy task: the pain anddesire for justice felt by the families of genocide victims and survivors were understandable and could not be ignored.
Although the Secretariat's difficulties were understandable, Member States should not be asked simply to"rubber-stamp" such requests without being given the opportunity to consider them in detail.
Members of the executive andParliament might also be asked whether the NHRI's comments were understandable and relevant, in substance and format.
Those concerns were understandable, but one of the principal goals of her delegation's initiative was precisely to stem such ambitions where they already existed and to prevent them from emerging in other places.
In the opinion of Mr. Adair, the prototype demonstration was excellent, all Braille transcriptions andvoice messages were understandable and the bus embark was simulated successfully.
Noting that the concerns expressed by Member States were understandable, he underscored that the organizations had come a long way on the road map, thanks to the support, guidance and advice of the Executive Board.
He had found strong feelings against contact with Argentina among people of all ages and considered that these were understandable in view of what had happened 12 years ago.
Their arguments were understandable, but since the NGOs and the Sub-Commission had taken such trouble to put the question on the international agenda, means had to be found of getting around the problem.
The difficulties the State party encountered in its efforts to reduce the length of pretrial detention were understandable but could not justify inflicting such excesses on accused persons, some of them minors.
Leaf once commented,"Early on in my writing career I realized that if one found some truths worth telling they should be told to the young in terms that were understandable to them.
Although there were understandable concerns within the international community about capital punishment, it was the law in Barbados and reflected the paramount will of the people. It was based on specific religious, moral and cultural traditions.
The High Commissioner for Refugees told President Djukanovic that while the reasons for the closure of the border with Kosovo announced on 11 September were understandable, she urged him to reverse the decision.
As to regulations on entry and expulsion,given the island's small size, restrictions were understandable, but it was not evident why they should only apply to nationals from the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Was that not discriminatory?
With regard to regional cooperation, he had already voiced his sympathy with first-asylum countries,which were often neighbouring countries whose concerns about the massive influx of refugees were understandable.
The reservations that some parties had expressed about such measures being a matter for action under other instruments were understandable, but every opportunity should be taken to achieve climate targets.
The problems that some Member States had in meeting their obligations were understandable and were not the cause of the current situation, which was largely due to the failure of a large number of Member States to fulfil their obligations in full and on time.
While such distinctions were understandable, he wished to have further information about the criteria applied, particularly in the light of paragraph 106, which stated that the overriding principle in the laws regulating professions and activities was the prohibition of discrimination.
