Sentence examples for sought to explain a from inspiring English sources

There was a nasty touch of deja vu as Alastair Cook sought to explain a horrendous performance by his England team.

Dr. Borukhova also sought to explain a mysterious cassette, found in a search of her home, on which she secretly recorded a conversation with Mr. Mallayev, who, like Dr. Borukhova, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

Ordinary people around the world have been failed by globalisation, Justin Trudeau has told the Guardian, as he sought to explain a turbulent year marked by the election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote and the rise of anti-establishment, nation-first parties around the world.

Romney sought to explain a plan to simplify the tax code, with a novel idea about voucher-based deduction, but he once again failed to explain specifically how he would fill the increased deficit incurred by lowering taxes.

The ancient testimonia tend to confirm that Parmenides sought to explain an incredibly wide range of natural phenomena, including especially the origins and specific behaviors of both the heavenly bodies and the terrestrial population.

Music executives, seeking to explain a decline in CD sales, have often cited free digital downloads and Internet file sharing.

Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994) Kate Winslet's debut performance in a film that seeks to explain a notorious 1950s New Zealand murder case.

This analysis, in August, about Chinese activists being arrested by the Japanese Coast Guard for planting flags on one of the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, was just one of many seeking to explain a host of Asian territorial disputes, and the rising stakes.

I don't want to give too much away here, but there is a moment when the family seeks to explain a terrible thing they have just read; and what's sad, I think, is that they reach for clichéd explanations that don't necessarily reflect what they think, let alone the reality of the situation.

Or, perhaps more cleanly, in log terms we seek to explain a change in relative income of just under 1.000 log points.

Generally, as John Earman quipped (1986), to go this route is to "… seek to explain a vague concept determinism in terms of a truly obscure one causation".