But no one in the government has admitted that the N.S.A. has been spying on Ms. Merkel, or the Mexican president, or the Brazilians, much less explained why.
One reason for expecting much less, explained Dr. John Bryant of the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Norman Wolmark of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, in an editorial they wrote, is that tamoxifen's results linger after the drug is stopped.
Thomas never acknowledges, much less explains, the contradiction.
The information provided can't begin to order, much less explain, the overwhelming pileup of visual information.
My friend Eric Cotsen has a man-cave in Malibu, Calif., with so many gadgets that you couldn't list -- much less explain -- them all in 18 pages.
A romantic sensibility alone does not support, much less explain, a coyly pleated trouser leg or a drop-neck shirt finished with a cute bow tie.
Moreover - and this is a trickier thing to try to describe, much less explain - we somehow gained access to Hamlet's soul.
It is not a simple thing to define and apply terms like "the freedom of speech," or "equal protection of the laws," much less explain how much process is "due".
Now 57, with his memory weakened by what he said was a recent stroke, Mr. Wright said he could not recall details of the discrimination he encountered, much less explain the apparent duplicate claims.
The coercive and controlling abuse she suffered is, for the most part, distinguished by being undistinguished – the details so ordinary, so mundane that even she couldn't see what she was worried about, much less explain it.
When I spoke with Shegelski, he noted that, while scratch-guiding theory is intriguing, the theorists haven't attempted to demonstrate that the mechanism can generate a metre-wide curl, much less explain why the curl is the same regardless of the rotation rate.
