Sentence examples for a common explanation for from inspiring English sources

A common explanation for this discrepancy — that the BBC World Service gets free support from its parent agency, the domestic BBC — doesn't really hold up.

Recruits can take five official college visits, but they are sometimes unable to make all of those trips, which has been a common explanation for their not signing on signing day.

A common explanation for the change in direction is that General Than Shwe is dismantling his system of absolute power because he does not want another strongman to emerge who could hurt his family or threaten the wealth he seems to have built up during nearly two decades in power.

A common explanation for the withering of public life is the absence of "conviction" politicians, the current term of art for those who, like Paul Wellstone, have ideological beliefs, and there is some truth to that: bolder ideas make for bigger crowds.

A common explanation for the association between BD and diabetes mellitus focuses on the diabetogenic side effects of psychotropic medications, but evidence is also increasing for a medication-independent association (Foley et al. 2015).

Sotaro Kita, a psycholinguist at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the study, says the Perlman work is "theoretically very important," and could "knock out" a common explanation for language evolution: that humans developed gestural language first, and only much later moved on to spoken language.

"A common explanation suggested for Turkey's low level of female participation in the labor force is that cultural attitudes that do not approve of women's presence in the public sphere," Ipek Ilkkaracan, a professor of economics at Istanbul Technical University, said during an interview by e-mail this week.

A common explanation given for low rates of 'voluntary blood donations' in Pakistan is that Pakistanis are simply unwilling to donate blood, that they lack altruism.

A possible common explanation for this might be that, in P2X4−/− mice, a rise in [Ca2+]i less effectively brings new AMPA receptors to the subsynaptic membrane.

Withers's gift lies in the immediacy of his scenarios and in how few words he needed to turn around a thought: his common explanation for how he reached conclusions as a writer is "I was feeling what I said".

Since QI interventions tend to be implemented during times of particularly poor performance, regression to the mean is probably a much more common explanation for positive QI studies than we typically recognize.