Sentence examples for explaining to themselves from inspiring English sources

New Yorkers often have trouble explaining, to themselves and others, why they submit to the extortionate demands of their hometown.

Self-explanation is an active learning technique of proven effectiveness in other domains which consists of having students explaining to themselves information on to-be-learned materials.

Taking heed of the Common Core's instruction that "mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution," Ms. Baldi began to give a new problem "cold turkey," without introduction or explanation, and let groups of students try to figure it out.

Ensuring professional mentorship and supervision of school specialists with a view to strengthening their skills of explaining to themselves instances of provocative behaviour on the part of pupils, of preventing and responding to bullying and violence and for prevention of professional burnout.

What we are left with is a picture of people — not necessarily good people — muddlingly trying to explain to themselves the pain and unknowability of their lives.

Maybe no one can fully explain the explosion of the Harry Potter and "Ice and Fire" franchises, but fans can quite easily explain to themselves why they are fans: it's because of the books.

Their motivation for looking back is to try to explain to themselves (and to their readers) the enigmatic man they came to know: a seemingly infallible figure who closed his career with a major misstep.

Those who fail to stand by their country now will have to explain to themselves and to posterity why they were so cowardly in this time of such obvious need for action.

The second group was explicitly prompted to read each line of the passage and then explain to themselves the meaning of the text before proceeding to the next line, and to repeat this for each line of text.

It was an opportunity, she explains, to express themselves without the need for verbal skills.

The results of the different diagnostic procedures performed on children were briefly explained to the children themselves.