"She's got laryngitis," Mr. Daughtry explained, prompting a gruff rejoinder from a man in the crowd: "Like hell she does!" (Suffice it to say that among "Idol" devotees, there is some skepticism about the diagnosis).
The purchase, Mr. Fries explained, prompted Microsoft to revisit its approach in games, publishing most of its games for the Mac as well as for machines running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
"I don't do clubs, but I do house parties," she explained, prompting Ms. Electra to say, for the second time that night, "She's so hot!" As the night's D.J.'s were learning, you can't compete with celebrity, but you can stand near it and hope it's contagious.
The British Treasury collected tax revenues from RBS and failed to regulate it properly, Mr Salmond explained, prompting Channel 4 News to headline its report "Salmond: you keep Scots bank debt, we'll keep the oil money".Talk to English Tory MPs in London, and they grumble loudly about Scotland being subsidised to the hilt by Britain.
"The new Fitbit," I would explain prompting the other party to promptly reply without follow-up questions that they liked it and were going to actually buy one.
The story of the "dueling" weddings had been out there, she explains, prompting all kinds of nasty online comments about her son and his bride-to-be.
"[Jesus] says how you treat the least among us … that's how you treat him," he explained, prompting Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) to shoot back with a libertarian-styled passage from the Book of Thessalonians: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat".
The results indicate that the learning effects of self-explaining prompts depend on levels of learner expertise.
"They encouraged us to think outside the box," Satrom told me, by way of explaining what prompted her, a year ago, to proffer a "Let's Call Our State Dakota!" initiative.
The Philippine government has been "in a state of denial" about the terrorist threat, said a Western diplomat, explaining what prompted the American warning, which was made on March 22.
But the theory does not satisfactorily explain what prompts awakenings in the first place.
