Sentence examples for usually explained as from inspiring English sources

In evolutionary psychology, anxiety is usually explained as part of the "fight or flight" reflex that gets triggered in the presence of danger.

This is usually explained as being for family reunion purposes, but most travellers are not all that interested in their relatives in China.

Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music — that is, music performed by black artists for black listeners — repurposed by mostly white artists for a mostly white audience.

We've become accustomed to the inflammatory pronouncements of late-stage celebrity males — Charlton Heston, Bill Cosby, Clint Eastwood — though their evolution into conservatives, curmudgeons, or cranks is usually explained as a function of age.

In the early 20th century, crime in families was usually explained as being hereditary, as documented by the well-known studies of two families, the Jukes and the Kallikaks, who were similar to the contemporary Bogle family featured in "Father Steals Best: Crime in an American Family" (front page, Aug. 21).

Those restrictions on sovereignty are usually explained as deriving from consent or autolimitation, but it can easily be demonstrated that in some cases states have been considered as bound by certain rules of international law despite the lack of satisfactory proof that these rules were expressly or implicitly accepted by them.

Female characters in books, movies and on TV are meant to be likeable and, as nymag.com points out this week, if they're not, the problem is usually explained away as a medical problem (such as Homeland's Carrie being bipolar).

When they volunteer, they know that in any case they stand a fair chance of being knocked about by the police (usually explained away as "tripping on the stairs leading down to the cells" or "falling against the corner of a table in the charge office").

The case against CDS contracts is usually explained using house insurance as an example: it is not possible to take out an insurance policy on someone else's house – because you would then have a financial interest in burning it down.

This is usually explained by Hergé's "naivety", as an author of children's comics (a defence also used for P.G. Wodehouse).Alas, none of those arguments survive a reading of a biography of Hergé by Philippe Goddin, published in 2007.

The generation of nucleotide polymorphism of Mhc genes is usually explained by positive selection, such as balancing selection and overdominant selection acting on the Mhc genes, which is necessary to maintain polymorphisms for survival against infections [ 3, 4].