Sentence examples for explained to former from inspiring English sources

Rushing, a United States Marine for 15 years, explained to Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft that he was initially very skeptical but had become personally convinced while researching his story.

As I patiently explained to the former No 10 adviser what had drawn me to the Liberal Democrats, I could see I was making little headway.

He once explained to his former agent Drew Mollica that he had learned the most important riding lesson of all in his hometown: "how to make a horse my friend by the time I get to the starting gate".

Over a recent breakfast, she explained to the former American ambassador, Robert D. Blackwill, why Western companies' fear that their intellectual property would not be protected in India was misplaced, and asked him to spread the word.

In David Mamet's movie "House of Games," the grifter played by Joe Mantegna explains to a former mark, "It's called a confidence game.

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.

It may be hard to explain to alienated former Tories flirting with Ukip that he was backing Blair as council president when Blair's laissez-faire attitude to migration let tens of thousands of Poles into the country in the first place.

"We were looking for something fairly dramatic," Russell Bowman, the museum's former director, explained to me.

But former troopers explained to David Kocieniewski of The Times that balancing security and privacy gives the guarded some leeway in evading their guards.

In 2001, former Gateway CEO Ted Waitt explained to an AMD executive that Intel offered him large sums not to deal with AMD, which he could not refuse: 'I have to find a way back to profitability.

"We call ourselves the Boothstowes," the former Bachelorette explained to People.