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Don't hesitate to ask questions if you don't understand my explanation.
I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation.
Do you have any explanation?
Tom's explanation wasn't very good.
Thanks for your explanation.
Thank you for your explanation.
Your explanation won't wash; it's too improbable to be true.
We were ordered away without any explanation.
I couldn't think up such a brief explanation.
His explanation was not satisfactory.
The explanation was beyond my understanding.
The explanation is by no means satisfactory.
The explanation may be much more complex.
His explanation of the problem adds up to nonsense.
The explanation of the event was omitted for lack of space.
I demand an explanation for this mistake.
Your explanation lacks concreteness.
Thanks for the explanation.
There is not a physical explanation for this phenomenon yet.
Your explanation is too abstract to me.
We never got a clear explanation of the mystery.
Are you satisfied with my explanation?
My explanation may sound strange.
My explanation was not sufficient.
Movie subtitles
There may well be a simple explanation.
All I'm after is an explanation of your whereabouts and the whereabouts of that Santa suit.
Leaving Mr. Melrose with no scissors and no explanation as to where they have gone.
And I'm sure there's an explanation for that.
When primitive man is confronted with something incomprehensible, the explanation is always sorcery and evil spirits.
There, King Samlak, informed by the slaver, demands an explanation.
But if it concerns Miss Cameron, I'll demand an explanation.
Well, if I must give an explanation, it was stuffy in here.
Pardon, sir, no doubt there is an explanation.
I owe you an explanation.
I don't think any explanation could satisfy.
There is no explanation.
There's got to be an explanation.
If we were to be generous, be properly. Give them an explanation.
The only explanation is that something's blocking him from us.
We were hoping for an explanation from you.
In spite of that, you left home without any explanation at the age of 16.
Pardon, sir, but no doubt there is some explanation. - Of what?
I owe you an explanation. - Don't bother about me.
With a great deal that even to us old campaigners is strange and difficult of explanation.
A very convenient explanation.
The Crown has persistently scoffed at such an explanation.
Defendants? You heard the prosecutors explanation.
She's going to give me an explanation. - No! My dear sir, it never will be clear as long as she's explaining it.
If you'd waited for my explanation. - Not my coat your coat would still be very all right.
She's going to give me an explanation.
If you'd waited for my explanation.
Maybe so, but this time I demand an explanation.
I can't run off with the wife of a host who calls me friend and shakes my hand without an explanation.
Unfortunately the explanation is not mine to give.
I wish for your sake as well as mine I had an explanation but unfortunately, I've none.
You always have a very smooth explanation ready, huh?
Since no one is to blame I demand no explanation. I ask only one thing.
The explanation is simple.
You simply don't want me to waste time giving you a long explanation.
But the explanation is very simple.
News and current affairs
And, while a flagging economy may explain a small portion of the drop in US carbon emissions, the EIA emphasizes that the major explanation is natural gas.
And the explanation is straightforward: the richest households fund political campaigns.
The explanation is not capital spending, which is normally linked to productivity growth.
The group identified the gaps that need explanation.
Could the American public's faith in Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, America's central bank, be a satisfactory explanation?
Second, water scarcity is seldom absolute, and even less often an explanation of poverty.
The most interesting explanation I heard was that economics has become more interesting, because it no longer seems to be a finished and closed discipline.
Surprisingly, there is no well-received explanation, because this boom's ultimate causes are mostly psychological.
Philosophers of science have traditionally approached questions concerning what counts as knowledge, explanation, and theory as if they could be answered universally.
Moreover, the court has given no explanation of why it is allowing him to be tried on the same embezzlement charge that of which he was acquitted in 2003.
Of course, neoconservative critics of the high court will see in this explanation the confirmation of their worst fears.
As is too often the case with the Bush administration, there is no flattering explanation of official policy.
Perhaps the best explanation has to do with attitudes, not ideology.
The first explanation is that the banks have not, in fact, bought insurance, and some have taken speculative positions.
Recent events suggest one possible explanation: Burma's rulers have grown wary of China's almost smothering embrace - a result of the country's international isolation.
Their explanation was that the West is uncomfortable with the motives and behavior of ideological states - Syria, Iran, and Iraq under Saddam were states with causes - Islam, Arab unity, or anti-Zionism.
The FIS meeting in July was the unheralded beginning of an attempt to remodel the universe in such a way. The group identified the gaps that need explanation.
But is this a good enough explanation? As rewards went up, why did new competitors, prepared to undercut, fail to come into the market?
If this explanation is broadly correct (and it incorporates the deregulation point as well, as you can see) then what can be done about it?
One possible explanation is that education levels in Europe outstripped the pace of technological change, oversupplying the market for advanced skills.
One explanation is that employment in the years before the crisis was being propped up by credit-fueled demand.
Moreover, due to their repeated queries for explanation, a few Western media outlets eventually owned up to their mistakes.
Bush's partial explanation of the world food crisis, accurate as far as it went, brought the anger of India's media and of many politicians down on his head.