Sentence examples for effort to explain a from inspiring English sources

One voter asked Mr. Obama how he maintained his composure after losing Ohio and Texas and enduring a tumultuous period in his candidacy that involved his effort to explain a series of controversial comments by Mr. Wright.

For an effort to explain a Merleau-Pontyan notion of non-representational intentionality without drawing on a conceptual/non-conceptual contrast, see Siewert 2005).

It was a poor choice of words on my part in an effort to explain a feeling," Depp said in the statement.

Despite their authors' consciousness-raising intentions, these books, in their earnest effort to explain an exploding demographic, to sympathetically explain the who, how and why of single women, do anything but.

Florida has launched a baffling effort to explain all the arrests of its football players, while U.C.L.A. quarterback Chris Forcier announced a transfer via this head-scratching press release.

In an effort to explain why a Yale team enlisted help from an unusual source: psychics and others who hear voices but are not diagnosed with a mental illness.

Finally — and perhaps unfairly — I yearned for a more embracing effort to explain how a particular place and time feeds such a sudden cultural flowering, a theory that might enlarge my understanding of other cities and eras and, even, art.

He says he still tells that story on Capitol Hill as part of a broader effort to explain how a complicated and often-misunderstood category of financial products grew up and became important to the broader economy.

It took me some effort to explain to a former student recently that no, my peers did not talk about food all the time when we were her age, unless she meant which diner we were going to for breakfast.

The problem with this thesis is that ­Anderson makes little effort to explain how a community of creative and enthusiastic individuals or small startups might give rise to an industrial movement capable of transforming and revitalizing manufacturing.

We met on three more occasions, and each time he made a conscientious effort to explain himself or a point.