As the plane strained against the buffeting, prompting a mixture of whimpering and self-denying hilarity from the passengers, my friend spun round in his seat and, seeing me near-hysterical, endeavoured to explain the mechanics and the back-up systems – the meticulously engineered unlikelihood that it could all go wrong.
Therefore, we have endeavoured to explain the mathematical approaches figuratively, making ample use of metaphor and analogy.
To the orthodox it seemed blasphemous to hold that humanity could act wholly outside the sphere of divine omnipotence, which had been so vividly portrayed by the Qurʾān but which the Muʿtazilah had endeavoured to explain away in order to make room for humanity's free and independent action.
Try to keep thinking of people with very little money living in cramped and insecure conditions, or "priced out" teachers, nurses, cooks and even solicitors as I endeavour to explain why the two new documents matter and how the mayor's housing policy experts think they will help.
The neoclassical theory endeavours to explain the prices of productive factors and the distributive shares received by them.
Because designers are in such key positions, the chapter also endeavours to explain the unique qualities that comprise the nature of design practice to others working within the field.
He endeavours to explain the emergence of the thinking subject from nature in terms of an 'absolute I' coming retrospectively to know itself in a 'history of self-consciousness' that forms the material of the system.
This article endeavours to explain patient (dis)satisfaction by comparing patients' expectations at the time they filed a complaint, with the outcome of the complaints handling process.
They also invested in and endeavoured to promote trade, a major source of imperial wealth.
