Sentence examples for undertook to explain from inspiring English sources

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.

Though Origen rejects it, this was in fact the prevailing thesis of most Christian writing in the second century when it undertook to explain the Fourth Evangelist's assertion that the one who became incarnate was the Logos who had been with the Father as theos (god) if not ho theos (God) from the beginning (John 1.1).

The paper then undertakes to explain those findings.

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

On the Family desk, Steve, the section's deputy editor, undertakes to explain why the comic had to go.

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

James Wood, whose family runs the Waterside Gallery, which carries woodcarvings, ceramics and jewelry by Cornwall residents, undertakes to explain the town's magic to me.

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