Some of these companies are allegedly using "commercial confidentiality" to withhold explanations; astonishingly, a few are trying to charge each woman £50 for information from her medical file.
Applications need to be made via UK ministers to the European Commission, but the Welsh Government said they had been withheld without explanation.
Although Margulies is expert at withholding information — Manny dies, we learn later, in the midst of the Hollywood fiasco — he isn't equally disciplined at withholding explanation.
Ford seemed to delight in withholding any explanation at all, burnishing his public image as a taciturn and cryptic man by accepting an invitation to be interviewed about his decision and then declining to offer anything more expansive than, "I think it's the thing to do at this time".
Withholding explanations may be a strategy of Patrick Gottsch, who, along with his daughters, started RFD-TV in 2000; as Gottsch recently told Forbes magazine: "I've never had an original idea in my life.
Some patients may expect that they will not be understood by physicians who use different terminology and descriptive words than they do; hence, patients may withhold clear explanations of their symptoms and illness experiences.
From both sets of grandparents he also learned that secrets kept and explanations withheld were corrosive, so he has tried to give Alex "the opportunity to say whatever he likes – and also to not say what is too difficult for him to say.
At the same time, the airing of Durst's sensational bathroom soliloquy raised questions that the show itself declined to answer the explanations evidently withheld for dramatic, rather than journalistic, reasons.
At the same time, the airing of Durst's sensational bathroom soliloquy raised questions that the show itself declined to answer — the explanations evidently withheld for dramatic, rather than journalistic, reasons.
Do you really want to hire someone who withholds an honest explanation?
Not for the first time, I was left a mite uneasy by Brown's have-cake-and-eat-it attitude towards charlatanism, whereby he criticises others for duping their audiences while withholding any meaningful explanation of how his own tricks are pulled off.
