Sentence examples for partial explanations from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes there are human explanations, partial explanations," he said.

Shortsighted self-interest or invidious discrimination may provide partial explanations.

Provide three potential partial explanations for why it is that pre-industrial hunter-gatherer populations appear healthier than pre-industrial settled-agriculture populations.

Often they have to be satisfied with partial explanations, said Steven Wallace, a member of the Gehman board who is in charge of accident investigations for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Noting the thick snow outside his window, he says northern peoples are thrifty by necessity; they must save food in the summer to survive the winter.These are partial explanations at best.

The rally has also propelled China ahead of Japan as the world's second-biggest equity market by value, with a total capitalisation of more than $4.5 trillion.There are plenty of plausible, but partial, explanations for the boom.

But it is only a partial explanation.

One partial explanation, however, is obvious.

But that is only a partial explanation.

His background in architecture offers one partial explanation.

That's not untrue, but it's a partial explanation".