Sentence examples for using to explain from inspiring English sources

"Witch hunts by neo-Puritans in and out of the Bush administration," the words Nicholas D. Kristof reports National Institutes of Health scientists are using to explain their use of code words in e-mail messages and research abstracts about AIDS (column, May 9), immediately brought to mind George Orwell's prescience more than half a century ago about totalitarianism.

Blankfein, on the defensive, pulled out the rationales many bankers have been using to explain their conduct: They weren't fiduciaries; they were market makers, helping sophisticated institutional clients manage risks while managing their own exposures as well.

It turns out that he's looking at exactly the same mathematics that some of the guys in my group have been using to explain the explosive release of energy in Earth's magnetic field.

It mimicked nearly word for word the rhetoric that Moammar Gadhafi's state television has been using to explain the revolt that has engulfed the country.

It didn't take long, however, to realize that the same tools I was using to explain math could be helpful in finance as well.

Fox News' coverage repeated the same talking point the right has been using to explain Detroit's decline for 50 years: Unions make it impossible to do business.

People are just used to explain an idea.

Turnovers represent the one statistic the Giants can use to explain their success.

All are used to explain the apparently surprising popularity of these books.

What words did people use to explain why they voted for Mr. Bush?

Similar work has been done with explanatory styles — the techniques we use to explain events.