That dividing line was well-understood at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty] Reference

There is no statewide office less well-understood than controller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Fratello: California: Brown, Bowen, Poizner and the Rest] Reference

It is said to be a well-understood maxim of the novelist's art that many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

This was well-understood, and hence resisted resolutely and successfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference

The hockey stick controversy is often cited, but not so often well-understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They'll choose well-understood occupations like engineer, or doctor, or lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Startups Condense in America] Reference

It only requires the intelligent application of certain well-understood principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

There was in this demand upon him a breach of a silent but well-understood compact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Senator] Reference

Polls show that electronic voting is a well-understood and vital issue among the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of the Voters: A Discussion of Heroes, Villains and Vigilance] Reference

It was a well-understood thing in the family that the senior male Dale should have all the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

One thing that bin Laden and his senior leaders well-understood was the economic cost of 9/11.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2002] Reference

And I think it's very, very important because I think this is a not very well-understood point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco Roundtable] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: And the difficult part here, of course, is it's not a problem that is well-understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005] Reference

And is it not a well-understood thing that nothing so baffles midnight burglars as a burning candle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Activin receptors are fairly well-understood genes, so a problematic alteration would likely stand out.    From Wordnik.com.  [DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code] Reference

This is a conventional and well-understood phenomenon - there is no free energy production in this mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Clinton well-understood the premise and parameters of the You Tube question, even as they escaped Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama In New Web Ad: "Judgment Matters"] Reference

That language can be a barrier to inclusion is well-understood by those all along the political spectrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debbie Seltzer: The Politics of Discourse and Exclusion] Reference

In private industry, as in not-for-profits, supervisor and subordinate rôles are generally well-understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Don't Work for Them; They Work for Us] Reference

It is implied that these men had tacitly, or in some other well-understood way, accepted the first invitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

This approach requires a different kind of countermeasure, but it's still well-understood in the security world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Look a Leopard in the Eye, and Other Security Advice] Reference

Since this last point is not as well-understood as the other four above, let me spend a couple more paragraphs on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Cobble: How Europe & Canada Could Help Us!] Reference

And not only is our brain “half visual,” but our visual system is by far the most well-understood part of our brains.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Vision Revolution’] Reference

It is based on the well-understood notion of consumer reward schemes, and creates clear and positive incentives for change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Dembo: Green Credits -- What Obama and McCain Can do for the Environment] Reference

Government through the intrenched and well-understood abuses which have grown up in connection with second-class mail matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

It's well-understood by modern business that new ideas always come from those uncommitted to the status quo -- from outsiders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: A Misconception by Pessimists] Reference

The rulemaking process must be well-understood by all bureaus, and deadlines must be met for rulemaking to proceed effectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Npr Report On Department Of Interior Part A] Reference

You know, it's not at any one moment, there's going to be a transition from a confused person to a-- a well-understood new person.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference

Markets, with all their well-understood strengths and weaknesses, have however become more powerful in the global economic system.    From Wordnik.com.  [An effective developmental state needs a strong Alliance] Reference

Both Edwards and Clinton well-understood the premise and parameters of the You Tube question, even as those details escaped Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards Pooh-Poohs Obama-Clinton Flap] Reference

Predesignated and well-understood command and support relationships ensure that the force will fight as a cohesive, coordinated team.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 90-4 Chapter 2]

Matters pertaining to heating, ventilating, and plumbing are easily taught as resting upon certain definite, well-understood principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference

But that presumes the flaws in models are well-understood and that it's possible to incorporate optimism -- debatable propositions both.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Why We Overestimate the Costs of Tackling Climate Change] Reference

At this point, however, the gathering crisis is undeniable, solid coalitions have been assembled, and policy options are well-understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: Will Health Care Eclipse Climate in Congress This Year?] Reference

Furthermore, though much studied, the processes are still not well-understood and their ramifications cannot be predicted with confidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [AP Environmental Science Chapter 2- The Cycling of Matter] Reference