Sentence examples for and attempting to explain from inspiring English sources

Freedman released a statement "unreservedly apologising" and attempting to explain the comments on Friday morning, saying she was "mortified".

He's writing in 1987, I should mention, and attempting to explain the productivity slump that struck America in the early 1970s.

Then, as now, Trump's backers seemed to have few qualms about it, downplaying and attempting to explain away the tape, which underscored his long history of sexism and misogyny.

Identifying, measuring and attempting to explain socio-economic disparities in tobacco use are important first steps in developing strategies and targeting resources to reduce them.

In this study, we sought to fill this gap by documenting and attempting to explain between-hospital variation in charges for the same, average woman's inpatient stay for vaginal birth or caesarean section in California relatively homogeneous episodes of care.

The artists shared jokes and attempted to explain their meaning in different languages.

Harder still, she will visit the woman who did this to her and attempt to explain the damage it caused.

The origins and developments of communes are complex, and attempts to explain them in simple terms are doomed to failure.

And as Salon's David Sirota adeptly documented on Friday, Clapper is still spouting falsehoods as he apologizes and attempts to explain why he did it.

Around 3,000 stranded and bemused passengers were given food handouts by the demonstrators, who apologised for the inconvenience and attempted to explain the motivation for the disruption.

He climbed a slippery, wet ladder in his pinstripe suit, clambered over some scaffolding onto the streaming deck, and attempted to explain the latest official position.