It turned out that judges often settled for explanations that were feeble or worse; the unappealing alternative, from an elected judge's point of view, was calling the local prosecutor a liar.
One speaker argued that economists should give up on prediction and settle for explanation, identifying where earthquakes might strike, if not when, and how they might be withstood, if not prevented.
The numbers indicate a sudden, stunning decline in recent years, about which scientists have not settled on an explanation.
But officials have not settled on an explanation for why both growth and interest rates are still so low, and the debate is likely to define how — and whether — the central bank ends its extraordinary intervention in the American economy.
Economists had not quite settled on an explanation for the Great Moderation before it inconveniently ceased to exist.Worryingly, Asia's great moderation has also been accompanied by sharply rising credit.
I settled on this explanation and went back to sleep.
They quickly settled on an "explanation," a "guilty culprit": law schools, by presenting misleadingly optimistic employment data, had induced innocents to enroll who never would have gone to law school.
After denying any knowledge of Khashoggi's death for weeks, Saudi authorities eventually settled on the explanation that he was killed in an operation masterminded by former advisors to Mohammed.
Three months after the news broke that Donald Trump's personal attorney paid off a porn star a few weeks before the 2016 election, the president has finally settled on an explanation: He "fully reimbursed" Michael Cohen in 2017, according to his new financial disclosure released Wednesday.
The Monday-morning quarterbacking settled on three explanations.
