And I don't think the public have grasped that.

If the public, our elected officials and we, the press, ever really grasp that point, the nasty ordeal of Mr. Tower may have had some value for the nation.

And the public, reading only praise or he-said-she-said discussions, never grasps the fundamental disconnect between problem and policy.

Administrators were careful not to take sides but some said the public might finally grasp the significance of the arcane budget battle.

"I know how the general public grasps at belief systems," he said.

But naturally, the general public can't grasp them so readily.

I don't know if the general public has fully grasped just how undemocratic the present Labour leadership election rules are.

The general public has not yet grasped the true relation of bacteria to this condition; a relation which, indeed, first became clear to medical men within comparatively recent years.

But the general public in France did not grasp his importance and value until 1957.

Scientists were left wondering if the public would grasp this as disaster.