Sentence examples for explain the remarks from inspiring English sources

The Brazilian foreign ministry summoned the United States ambassador, Donna J. Hrinak, to explain the remarks, and the weekly business magazine Istoé Dinheiro put the Treasury secretary on its cover with the headline, "O'Neill, Brazil Doesn't Want You Here".

The South African foreign ministry said it would formally protest to the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria Monday and summon the embassy's charges d'affaires to explain the remarks.

Dr. Pais wrote that when asked to explain the remark, Einstein had replied: "Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse".

The McCain campaign did not explain the remark, but said Mr. McCain's position continued to be that he wanted the troops to withdraw based on conditions on the ground.

Pressed to explain the remark when he appeared before Congress a year later, Mr. Holder said that he meant only that he thought it was "unreasonable" for prosecutors in Manhattan not to meet with Mr. Rich's lawyers and that he was not intending to assess the merits of the case.

How else can one explain the remark of an otherwise seemingly quite sensible Prof. Dolores Hayden that danger in the streets has its roots in "Victorian patriarchal views that reserved public life for men only" ("Feminists Say Safe City Design Would Allay Risk to Women" by Ann Japenga, May 8)?

Explaining the remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Obama said he was not seeking to cut Congress out of the talks.

He explains the remarks in question by saying that he did not suggest climate change was affecting the number of hurricanes, but was affecting their intensity, because of hotter ocean temperatures, a conclusion he says the data readily bears out.Another example is the controversy over the most important totem of global warming: the "hockey stick".

Liam Neeson is likely hoping relentless speculation about his private life will finally be brought to a close after explaining the remarks he made about being involved with a "very famous woman" that sparked so many headlines were just a joke.

Mr. Loughner explained the remark matter-of-factly.

"That," adds Leadbetter, "probably explains the remark in his speech about golf being just a silly game.