Anyone who had spent time fiddling with an iPod or stuffing CD's into a stereo, he reasoned, had already grasped the basic concepts.
The list is endless, reasons grasped out of outdated textbooks, stereotypes and pandering to the idea that somehow certain identities are lesser, or mistakes.
"Most people here are wondering why, they are trying to grasp a reason.
I was there for a reason and had to "grasp the moment" as they say.
Covey was a visionary for a reason that few people grasp: he saw that the world might work better if we actually paid attention to it.
There must've been a reason, but I couldn't grasp it.
"I think men obviously are more stronger than women, so maybe," one of the female students said, grasping for a reason.
BonJour (2005) cites this problem as a reason for taking a direct, nonpropositional grasp of logical relations as crucial to inferential justification, at least for deductive inferences).
Many grasp to find a reason for the inexplicable behavior - childhood abuse, addiction or mental defect.
Despite the supposed attractions of the new deal the Americans have offered Iraqis, the beneficiaries have been patently unable, for a host of reasons, to grasp it.
When using a hospital-wide quality indicator, it may be hard for a hospital to grasp reasons for its outlier status.
