Sentence examples for undertake to explain from inspiring English sources

By Mollie Panter-Downes The New Yorker, September 11 , 1943P. 46 Penguin Books are now launching a monthly magazine called TRANSATLANTIC, which will undertake to explain America to the British and to present "the people who matters in Washington life, in the small farming communities, and the hot sleepy old south" to Britons.

The New Yorker, September 11 , 1943P. 46 Penguin Books are now launching a monthly magazine called TRANSATLANTIC, which will undertake to explain America to the British and to present "the people who matters in Washington life, in the small farming communities, and the hot sleepy old south" to Britons.

In his sprawling new book Tom Holland undertakes to explain nothing less than the origin of Islam.

In late February, more than a year and a half after naming Mr. Padilla an enemy combatant, Mr. Gonzales undertook to explain what he described as a "careful, thorough and deliberative process".

In this case, he undertook to explain a few facts that baffle the Chinese public: that millions of Americans lack access to affordable health care; that multiple Presidents have come and gone pledging to do something about it; and that Obama succeeded in getting a bill through Congress, only to be accused of violating the Constitution.

When he tried for the broad view — when he undertook to explain the demise of verse as a literary technique, or to describe the alternation of periods of realism with periods of romanticism in modern literature, or to interpret art as compensation for a psychic "wound" — his criticism got reductive very quickly.

In "Lawd Today!" (about a black man who is not only a victim of bigotry but a bigot himself), in "Uncle Tom's Children," and in the first two parts of "Native Son" he had tried to describe the conditions of life in a racist society; in the last part of "Native Son" he undertook to explain them.

And in this contradiction lies the genesis of R. Barker Bausell's readable, entertaining and immensely educational book, which undertakes to explain exactly why treatments that science says do not work that well are still able — even likely — to work for you.

Attempts were undertaken to explain the influence of polyethylene glycol on electrochemical zinc behaviour in alkaline solution.

This work has been undertaken to explain the effects of source energy and sourcE−to-detector distance on the detector efficiency calculations.

The Taylor impact properties were investigated as a function of velocity and various large-strain compression tests were undertaken to explain the results.