Sentence examples for explaining away from inspiring English sources

"There is no excuse, no explaining away what happened to these children.

"We believe in preventing crime and punishing criminals, not in explaining away their behavior".

They were explaining away practically everything to each other, including General Eisenhower.

"With the video culture of the last 20 years, there's too much explaining away of music".

Now do you fancy explaining away Scotland's record at sun-kissed Hampden?

They spent the last two seasons explaining away losing by pointing out that LeBron James was on the horizon.

The Sanchez bandwagon was in third gear after those games, explaining away three-plus quarters of inaccuracy and mediocrity.

Even for a President whose acquaintanceship with the truth is a casual one, explaining away the figures in the C.B.O.

Explaining away this under-representation with reasons other than racism does not get Oxford off the hook, however.

Mr Romney spent 2010 trying in vain to formulate a pithy way of explaining away the similarities between his policy and Mr Obama's.

Defenders often respond that most critics, with their social scientific analysis, are too narrowly specialized and reductionistic, reducing and explaining away significant religious meaning.