Sentence examples for preferred explanations from inspiring English sources

They found that the secret of Japan's success did not lie in cheap labour or government subsidies (their preferred explanations) but in what was rapidly dubbed "lean manufacturing".

We present a detailed analysis of the connection between the logical properties satisfied by a logic-based explanatory process and the structural properties satisfied by the criterion used for selecting the preferred explanations.

Officer Vasquez said he preferred explanation.

Or, it could be a fluke, which, J. A. Adande of ESPN.com writes, would be the Lakers' preferred explanation.

Participant number 202 Parents preferred explanation for any changes in infant behaviour, such as unexpected or additional crying, or new night waking between 3 and 6 months, was that the baby was hungry.

Pundits tend to prefer explanations like Scenario A. Candidates almost always offer personal explanations for their decisions ("I'm withdrawing to spend more time with my family").

Political scientists tend to prefer explanations like Scenario B. In the maximal expression of this philosophy, any candidate who displays any interest at all in running for the presidency is in fact running for it, whether or not they take official steps like forming an exploratory committee or raising money.

A glance at any molecular biology textbook will show that Sober is correct in contending that scientists do not always prefer explanations that abtract away from micro-detail and that we should reject any theory of explanation that automatically requires such abstraction.

Scientists -- who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests -- figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang established physics.

It is plausible that editors in the traditionally positivistic realm of health research are inclined to prefer explanations for exact number of groups.

And I really needed a coffee.Needless to say, I prefer explanation two, but explanation one may be slightly more parsimonious.