Sentence examples for hoping to explain from inspiring English sources

The resulting error, he said, amounted to 64 nanoseconds, almost exactly the universe-shaking discrepancy the Opera researchers were hoping to explain.

The morning after we discovered the notice, I called the city marshal, hoping to explain that we were innocent bystanders in this case.

Purnell decodes Johnson's complex personality, hoping to explain how a man so famously disorganised and prone to sexual and political misdemeanour has scaled the heights of public life.

He goes along with it, hoping to explain that this has all been a grotesque mistake but his television appearance only serves to whip up even more hysterical interest.

"I said from the very beginning South Carolina is an uphill battle for a guy from Massachusetts," Mr. Romney said on the eve of the primary, hoping to explain away his impending defeat.

And most bizarrely: the queasy mea culpa performed by the sexually compromised and "self-trashing, media-trashed" male politician, hoping to explain away furtive grapples in public toilets, while his wife stands beside him, pristine and humiliated.

History was a political study through which one might hope to explain or excuse the present.

Mr. Lavagna had hoped to explain the offer to creditors in a series of meetings this week.

By means of such interpretations, Ross hoped to explain the phenomenon of law in a world naturalistically conceived.

Mulholland Drive isn't like Memento, where if you watch closely enough you can hope to explain the mystery.

The British philosopher Paul Grice (1913 88) and his followers hoped to explain meaning solely in terms of beliefs and other mental states.