Sentence examples for familiar explanation from inspiring English sources

The familiar explanation is fear of the poison that Hoover would spew out in response.

The familiar explanation, no longer spoken in whispers, was his fondness for drink.

The plight of tipped workers has an all too familiar explanation: special interest politics.

A familiar explanation for tech's gender disparity is the so-called pipeline problem: the percentage of female computer-science graduates has almost halved since the nineteen-eighties.

People with inchoate beliefs or fears of being pigeonholed would no longer have to resort to the confusing and overly familiar explanation, "I'm spiritual but not religious".

It seems to be the familiar explanation: brief excitement after the appearance of the eurozone's latest painkiller, in this case the bailout of Spain's banks, has been replaced by the realisation that nothing substantial has changed.

Dionne offers familiar explanations, including the severity of the financial crisis; widespread fears of national decline; Republican obstruction; and Obama's mishandling of the economic stimulus program and health care reform.

Some of the familiar explanations for England's poor performance are absent this year — there's no heat or humidity to deal with during South Africa's winter; the altitude isn't much of an issue.

And there are the familiar explanations.

For familiar explanations, conversation-based home routines were elicited on the premise that the investigator was having a 5-year-old child as a house guest and needed tips on such things as what to cook and how to get ready for school (see Appendix B for a list of all prompts).

The film used the familiar celebrity explanation of self-exposure – it was going to provide us with the "real Paul Gascoigne".