Sentence examples for held to explain from inspiring English sources

The vibrations of this ether were held to explain the phenomenon of electromagnetic radiation.

He cites an anonymous source who attended an internal WSJ meeting held to explain the split to staffers.

To be sure, many residents see Columbia as a good neighbor, and expressed appreciation for a series of meetings the university held to explain its plans.

Despite the information sessions held to explain the facility's operation and planned security measures, Mr. Thomas said, a few vocal residents persuaded town officials to change their minds.

"Yes, I do, thank you," he mumbled to the judge in what is formally called an identity hearing, held to explain the charges to him and to ensure that he had legal representation.

A German overhaul of its labour market a decade ago has had a swifter impact, but lengthy pay-off periods are commonly held to explain why so many politicians are reluctant to take on vested interests.The OECD, an inter-governmental think-tank, has investigated big structural reforms in 30 rich economies over the three decades before the crisis.

While the company finances an interfaith dialogue group and a support group for workers of Middle Eastern descent, the meeting was an outgrowth of impromptu "Islam 101" courses that one manager, Mona Abdelall, has been holding to explain her religion to groups of 50 to 100 non-Muslims since the attacks.

We propose that this explanation could also hold to explain how crosses of Gurney WT mice with a line of G85R mice resulted in double-transgenic progeny that developed paralysis earlier than mice expressing the G85R mutant alone (11), whereas crosses of G85R mice with L76WT mice produced no effect (15).

Legislators from both sides of the aisle pressed Holdren to explain several recent Administration decisions that they felt had failed to take into account sound science.

This multiplicity of souls, it is held, serves to explain how human beings have the vital operations characteristic of plants and animals in addition to peculiarly human ones, and also explains the development of the fetus's vital functions.

"The BBC has to be held to account and to explain why we do what we do.