Mr. Clarke did not specify the reason for the step in court, but a question from Justice Carro offered a hint.
The company's chief executive, Dave Burner, speaking to analysts in a conference call, declined to name the potential buyer and did not specify the reason for the delay.
Ford did not specify the reason for the split other than to say that it flowed from an "annual budget review".
The court did not specify the reason for the stay, but Mr. Tarver's appeal, which was denied on Thursday by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and the Alabama Supreme Court, questioned the constitutionality of the electric chair.
Fars, a semiofficial state news agency, did not specify the reason for the arrest of the Ahmadinejad ally, Mohammed Sharif Malekzadeh, who resigned as deputy foreign minister this week, but a report by Mehr, another semiofficial agency, pointed to allegations of financial misdeeds.
The code field for this message specifies the reason for discarding the datagram.
So specifying the reason for the action is simultaneously identifying a part of the cause of the consequences of the action.
The connection is both rational, inasmuch as the belief-desire pair (the 'primary reason') specifies the reason for the action, but it is also causal, inasmuch as the one event causes the other if it is indeed the reason for it.
The National Archives and Records Administration does not specify the reason for the medical deferment, only that it resulted from a September 1968 physical exam that "disqualified" him from service. .
