In this instance an original understanding was the problem, not the solution.
In other examples, there is the difficulty of trying to decide whose original understanding to abide by.
The court began to approach constitutional interpretation with a new interest in the founding generation's original understanding.
But new network management practices and technologies challenge this original understanding.
They also will not discuss their original understanding.
The original understanding, after Mubarak's fall, had been that a new parliament would select the committee.
This plan is consistent with the original understanding of the founders.
They believe the studies should return to the original understanding of organizational commitment as an attitude toward the organization and measure it accordingly.
I don't mean to say that original understanding gives anybody a mechanical way to approach a problem.
This may have been the original understanding of inspiration for the people of the Bible.