Sentence examples for widespread explanation from inspiring English sources

One widespread explanation of the origin of this date is that December 25 was the Christianizing of the dies solis invicti nati ("day of the birth of the unconquered sun"), a popular holiday in the Roman Empire that celebrated the winter solstice as a symbol of the resurgence of the sun, the casting away of winter and the heralding of the rebirth of spring and summer.

Although there is no proven explanation for the cause of GWVI, one fairly widespread explanation is systemic Mycoplasma fermentans infection.

The historian Gerda Lerner elaborates this idea by explaining that "the most widespread and accepted explanation of the origin of prostitution" is that it began with temple prostitution in places such as ancient Mesopotamia (Lerner 1986, 125).

Multiple mating by female insects is widespread, and the explanation(s) for repeated mating by females has been the subject of much discussion.

One widespread, yet controversial, explanation for acupuncture meridians involves electrical activity.

Therefore, the idea that social behaviors such as love and altruism are better explained by nurture-based explanations may have become widespread, while nature-based explanations would be considered slightly more important in individual human abilities.

Nor can lack of funds, sometimes cited as an explanation for widespread acquiescence in shoddy housing, be a viable reason, the professor said, pointing out that earthquake safety measures add no more than 3 to 5 percent to the cost of construction of a house.

The cautious government still allows only a summary of its budget to be published, and is even dragging its feet over a proposed survey, to be paid for by a Swedish government agency, to establish just how widespread corruption is.The cynical explanation for all this holds that the government is simply doing the minimum to dispel public anger.

One of these was the adoption of Beth, and critics were especially happy with the scene where Puck meets her, but there was widespread disdain for the explanation behind Shelby's return, that of starting a rival glee club.

Another explanation for widespread homomorphic sex chromosomes is that there is periodic recombination between the sex chromosomes over most of their length without changes in the sex-determining locus.

It sounds like a promising approach, but given that the method is not in widespread use, readers may be put off by the brief explanation.