Sentence examples for success to explain from inspiring English sources

He tried without success to explain how Fiona's surprise and apologies now seemed somehow like routine courtesy, not quite concealing a private amusement.

For the last several days, Mr. Romney and his campaign have been trying, without any visible success, to explain why Mr. Romney never mentioned American troops (75,000 of whom are now fighting in Afghanistan) at his convention.

I DID it because I wanted to work with all those people again, and because it was such fun," said Jennifer Saunders, trying with limited success to explain how it was that she came to write six new episodes of "Absolutely Fabulous" long after the show was supposed to be dead and gone.

Its political success helps to explain why similar conditional income transfer programmes have been adopted in 18 Latin American countries and more outside the region.

Urata is bashful, however, about his group's late success and keen to explain the hard work that went before.

In other words, if successful scientific theories are not understood as describing an independently existing reality, their success is impossible to explain.

For reference, No Child Left Behind became law in 2002.Could you not find any other, perhaps objective, view of the Isaac Middle School's success, or try to explain what part the Act played in their results?

Then without much success I tried to explain the phrase "let me sleep on it".

Director David Muñoz and producer Simon Brading spoke to us about their unexpected success, and tried to explain themselves and their movie.

Nilsen and Gustafsson (2014) showed that school emphasis on academic success contributed to explaining the increased science performance in Norway between TIMSS 2007 and 2011.

Richard Boyd (1985, for example) argues that in explaining the success of science, we need to explain the overall instrumental success of scientific methods across the history of science.