Sentence examples for explaining the confusion from inspiring English sources

The conflicting aims go a long way toward explaining the confusion of fundamentalist politics in the 1980 election.

The Pentagon officials said Congress had been informed about the teams during the budget discussions late last year, but they said the names of the units had been changed during the budget process, to Strategic Support Teams from Human Augmentation Teams, possibly explaining the confusion.

We tried to explain the confusion in a blogpost in 2011 and another in 2013.

But often a character will ask another what he is talking about when only narcolepsy could explain the confusion.

"Of course, here" — here being the center of the station — "we're caught between two halves, which would explain the confusion".

George Kennan, an American traveller to the Caucasus in 1870, tried to explain the confusion to the American Geographical Society soon after he returned: "In thinking of the Caucasians we must remember that the Caucasian mountaineers as a whole are made up of fragments of almost every race and people in Europe and Western Asia," he said.

This may also explain the confusion that was occasionally encountered in the free-text replies, of the generic term dose (for instance in units of MBq), versus the SI-derived quantity absorbed dose (in unit Gy).

British Gymnastics performance director Tim Jones explained the confusion: "We have now clarified that the three individual medallists from this World Championship [men's final] are included in the 16 gymnasts invited to compete at the test event.

As we'll see presently, in the Nineteenth Century, Ernst Mach indeed proposed such an approach, but Leibniz clearly did not; though certain similarities between Leibniz and Mach — especially the rejection of absolute space — surely helps explain the confusion between the two.

Freeman said: "I cannot explain the confusion about Zhou's comment except in terms of the extent to which it conveniently bolstered a stereotype (as usual with all stereotypes, partly perceptive) about Chinese statesmen as far-sighted individuals who think in longer terms than their Western counterparts.

Writing in the early 1930s, William Coles Finch explains the confusion over the dates, saying "the old-fashioned numeral five is so frequently taken as a one".