However, it has some explanatory power.
The mechanical models of clock mechanisms are of some explanatory help.
It's a decent theory, with some explanatory power, but I suspect Krugman is correct in moving beyond it to suggest that, as always, race underlies everything.
Many investors are making billions of decisions for many different reasons, which means it's often impossible to tease out some explanatory narrative from the mess of data (though reporters certainly try).
The biography refrains from impolite poking around in Mr. Eastwood's personal life, except to provide some explanatory material from his childhood and showing pictures of him as a beautiful little boy.
He is a master of the cinematic enigma – it was Carrière who advised Michael Haneke to prune some explanatory material from The White Ribbon to intensify that picture's enigmas.
Generally a major policy like that might get a press release, some explanatory documents, a costing, or at the very least, a straight answer on when details might be supplied.
For a decade, according to Winders, the Daughters have been trying, in vain, to get permission from City Hall to put up some explanatory signs on municipal property bordering the plaza.
The need to walk that line between outdoor politics, summoning public support with some explanatory eloquence, and indoor politics, making the essential compromises, cutting the deals with legislators and vested interests, that are the essence of most democracies.
Information on families' religious, educational, professional and political inclinations, the average longevity of their members, their proneness to suicide and divorce and so forth, must shed some explanatory light on the personalities under genealogical scrutiny.
Before long, Albert formally requested that official proceedings be commenced in Rome to ascertain the work's orthodoxy; meanwhile, it began to be circulated in Germany, together with some explanatory publications by Luther.
