It became a center for polymer research in the United States and achieved a systematic understanding of the mechanical properties of polymers.

Instead, the field of boron chemistry has grown enormously, and a systematic understanding of some of its complexities has now begun.

Guy says "Behaviouralism emphasized the systematic understanding of all identifiable manifestations of political behaviour.

On a national level, however, the FBI never used the information to gain a systematic or strategic understanding of the nature and extent of al Qaeda fundraising.

Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, and to determine the likelihood of future events and trends.

As far as I know, no other culture has ever undertaken a systematic understanding of the world's various societies.

In contrast, we lack a general, systematic mechanistic understanding of the steps of hydrogen bond catalysis and how to influence them.

No one has given them much in the way of a systematic understanding of, for example, history - and so they have only a sketchy idea of what is happening to them.

The Protestant Reformation was a significant moment in the history of magical thought because Protestantism provided the impetus for a systematic understanding of the world.

Only in the last 10 to 15 years have researchers been developing systematic understanding of what constitutes effective teaching.