Sentence examples similar to explanatory, although from inspiring English sources

A is for alcohol, which is self-explanatory, although Bor points out there used to be a far higher tolerance for it as a stress-reliever than there is now; until, that is, a 1983 study found alcohol had an influence in nearly a third of aviation accidents and airlines suddenly started paying attention.

Based on the positive results, it is concluded that the theory may have a good explanatory power, although more evaluations are needed.

It is believed that 140,000 Republicans killed by Nationalist death squads remain unidentified in mass graves on the country's quieter roadsides and mountain ravines So perhaps it is appropriate that there are no explanatory signboards (although, apparently, these will be installed soon) to indicate where this trail starts, let alone a visitors' centre or car park.

This is not entirely clear from the draft Bill and Explanatory Notes, although the Department of Health did provide further information on this point in a memorandum to the House of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee.

High levels of chloroquine resistance were considered a possible explanatory factor, although levels of chloroquine resistance were also very high in the study sites in this multi-center analysis.

We thank Catherine Potvin for originally suggesting variance components as a better approach for comparing the relative importance of explanatory variables (although not specifically Andrew Gelman's approach that we use here).

Explanatory studies, although highly internally valid, are often less generalizable to outpatient community settings.

§Smoking behaviour, diabetes, and BMI (all related to deprivation) added as additional candidate explanatory variables, although smoking behaviour did not improve model fit and so was excluded in stepwise selection process.

Perhaps, the diversity of resistance mutations to each antibiotic is responsible for the lack of explanatory power, although this could also be an artefact of the scale of our analysis.

Concurrent workload was, as expected, a significant explanatory variable, although the confidence interval was wide and the strength of the association thus quite inexact, as is of course also the direction of causality.

To reflect demand [ 34], access to fresh water and the total quantity supplied were tested as explanatory variables, although the latter might also indicate the existence of economies or diseconomies of scale on the supply side [ 35].