Sentence examples for explain the extent from inspiring English sources

It is quite difficult to explain the extent of her crimes.

Spain has called on the US to explain the extent of spying on its citizens.

Madrid had earlier on Monday summoned the US ambassador to Spain, James Costos, to meet with government officials and explain the extent of US surveillance.

Readers have always suspected that the men were lovers — how else to explain the extent of Achilles' grief and rage when Patroclus is killed?

He said the bank had also made lengthy presentations to the City to explain the extent of its assets and liabilities.

Tilda Swinton has stepped in to explain the extent of her involvement in this year's Edinburgh film festival after it emerged that she was playing no further part in planning for the event.

The Internet, cash marketplaces, and informal alliances among insurgents seem to explain the extent to which bomb-making innovation crosses geographical and ideological lines much faster than it did previously.

But Pilling helps to explain the extent to which a business model that served the country so well during the great recovery after the second world war has also been at the heart of its more recent economic stagnation.

Still, Mr. Aslund's grinding morality tale pitting the supposed forces of light (Russia's "young reformers," as well as the jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky) against Mr. Putin, as the prince of darkness, cannot explain the extent or timing of Russia's boom.

It is impossible to explain the extent of motion revealed in the study, he said, without assuming that the deformation process is supplemented by melting at the base of the ice.

According to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the typical new house today is 55% smaller than one built before 1920.Though households are getting smaller, this alone does not explain the extent of house shrinkage.