The phrase "a powerful explanation for" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a strong or compelling reason or rationale behind a particular phenomenon or situation.
Example: "The scientist provided a powerful explanation for the unexpected results of the experiment, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms at play."
Alternatives: "a compelling rationale for" or "a strong justification for".
He advanced a powerful explanation for why the First World War rearranged political and economic structures across Eurasia and the British Empire, sowed the seeds of revolution in Russia and China, and laid the foundations of a new global order that began to revolve around the United States.
The hundreds of ill thought-out projects and half-baked ideas that marred the American reconstruction effort provides a powerful explanation for why the US campaign for "hearts and minds" never worked, and why Iraq is hardly a pro-American bastion in the Middle East today.
Gluckman's theory inherits the genetic defect of functionalism theory: it cannot provide a powerful explanation for the diversity and ritual changes in the various ethnic groups.
As summarized by Perazella [ 18] another important risk factor is the patient's underlying genetic makeup, which is likely a powerful explanation for the heterogeneous response to chemotherapeutic agents.
Yet defence of a nest and its vulnerable young is a powerful explanation for the ultimate function of female aggression and territoriality, which is most intense during lactation and near the nest site [ 23].
This generalization about the weakening of the normative expectations for couples suggests a powerful explanation consistent with cultural approaches ranging from theories of the Second Demographic Transition (Lesthaeghe and van der Kirk 1986) to late modernity (Giddens 1992; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2004).
By hypothesizing that GRNs must retain stability under a wide variety of circumstances, and so display Qualitative Stability, we provide a novel, simple and powerful explanation for numerous new and previously observed features of GRNs at different scales.
Threshold effects in Public Good Games can provide an often neglected, yet powerful explanation for the observed polymorphism in the population, as an alternative to punishment [ 18], spatial structure [ 19] or various payoff functions [ 16, 17].
Differences in national power and interests, he concludes, not international norms, continue to be the most powerful explanation for the behavior of states.
"Their stock portfolios did better under Clinton than they did under Reagan," says Mrs Laszlo-Mizrahi.But the most powerful explanation for shifting country-club allegiances lies with the Republican Party itself.
Dates of birth are not an all-powerful explanation for the outcomes of these lives.
