If Berry and Renner think the conservative explanation (it's the gays) and the liberal one (it's the celibacy) are both partly right, Greeley thinks they are both largely wrong.
Li Peng, who acted as China's premier from 1987 to 1998, is thought to have written a relatively conservative explanation of his involvement in 1989's Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Our observations appeal to a more conservative explanation for the structures found preserved in fossil bone.
Although the late Dr. Gimbutas still has an ardent following, many scholars hew to more conservative, nondivine explanations.
When it comes to conservative Republicans' explanations for how they came to be arrested in a public men's room.... (How often, really, do you start a sentence like that?)... Craig's claim that nothing happened, but that the Idaho Statesman made him so nervous he accidentally pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, was not exactly convincing.
Most of the participants have either strong religious affiliation or/and conservative unscientific explanations.
Mariano Rajoy, Spain's conservative prime minister, left explanations of the dramatic request for outside help to De Guindos, who told Spaniards that this was a simple loan rather than a bailout.
And conservative Republicans had an explanation.
Although he is widely expected to win the straw poll easily, the most important aspect of the contest in the long run may not be the outcome so much as the test it presents of his political durability and his explanations to conservatives across the country of how and why his positions — especially on abortion — have evolved in recent years.
Asked why they were essentially giving Mr. Bush a pass, many conservatives offered the same explanations again and again -- often using the identical word: After eight years, they were "hungry" to win back the White House, even if that might mean sacrificing some bedrock Republican positions.
