Sentence examples for was forced to explain why from inspiring English sources

I was forced to explain why the major television networks were not televising the game, something a 9-year-old finds difficult to grasp.

The White House was forced to explain why its stimulus plan did not stop unemployment from rising above 8percentt, as it said in January that it would.

In one bruising exchange, she was forced to explain why the bank stopped giving regulators profit and loss reports for the chief investment office during a critical period last year.

In passionate exchanges on the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, a black member of the audience accused Griffin of "completely disgusting" behaviour as he was forced to explain why he had met a Ku Klux Klan leader and attacked Islam.

The UK Foreign Office was left in a spin on Thursday as it was forced to explain why a relatively junior diplomat had enjoyed an amusement park ride with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.

Ed Miliband is facing a backlash from Labour MPs and other politicians on Merseyside after he was forced to explain why he had posed for a photograph with the Sun newspaper while the phone-hacking trial and Hillsborough inquest were under way.

Programme makers were forced to explain why a car number plate in the two-part special read: "H982 FKL" – an apparent reference to the 1982 Falklands war against Argentina.

The interrogation techniques themselves have been repeatedly discussed, and administration officials have been forced to explain why waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique of torturers dating back to the Spanish Inquisition, was not torture when used by the C.I.A.

Had he been forced to explain why his predicted sweep or near-sweep of the ten Super Tuesday states had failed to materialize, the press conference could have been ugly for him.

Amid censorious talk of strivers and skivers, the government has been forced to explain why a minister failed to turn up for a pre-arranged breakfast debate on the subject of apprenticeships.

Now, instead of sharpening their attacks on Democrats, Republicans on Capitol Hill are being forced to explain why they are not to blame and why Americans should trust them to govern both houses of Congress when the one they do run is in such disarray.