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This can be explained largely by the growing dissonance between the reasoning for intervention – namely, the undeniable underperformance of post-colonial states – and the remedies offered.
He explained that Germany’s monetary stewardship had been too successful in the fight for stability, with the result that it had become politically vulnerable.
As reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay later explained, their middle-tier news service was not granted top-level access, so they had to rely on sources from inside the intelligence community, who forthrightly pointed out the flaws in the Bush administration’s claims.
Just as both empathy and xenophobia can be explained by natural selection, both can be modulated by cultural factors.
This can be explained by the fact that Israel is supported by Western governments and generously subsidized by American taxpayers.
This can be explained partly by antagonism against Islam.
An economist, Orlando Ochoa, explained that rent-seeking dominated the Venezuelan economy.
When asked about the ballooning deficit, he explained that "we have a deficit because tax revenues are down;" and that the tax relief package "has helped the economy, and that the deficit would have been bigger without the tax-relief package."
To say that the Fed’s policy of “quantitative easing” might taper off, they explained, was different from saying that it would be halted.
Former President George W. Bush once explained terrorism as the expression of hatred for American freedom.
To be sure, as Kevin Folta, the head of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, explained, systems biology can be a useful approach if employed properly.
As the filmmaker Michael Moore explained prior to the election, American working-class voters were desperate to hear someone promise to take on big business.
As the Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow argued in 1972, “much of the economic backwardness in the world can be explained by the lack of mutual confidence.”
The difference seems to be explained by the fact that the expansion of urban, modern sectors in recent high-growth episodes is driven by domestic demand rather than export-oriented industrialization.
In this history it is clear that Einstein's paper from 1905 not only explained the photoelectric effect, but also initiated something of a greater magnitude, something revolutionary: it introduced the concept of the photon, the wave-particle which not only lies at the heart of our understanding of both micro- and macrocosmos, but which led to technical applications such as medical laser scalpels and the laser diodes of the Internet.
If we Mexicans don’t end this war – so ill-conceived, so poorly executed, and so badly explained – it will end us.
For nearly a century, physicists have attempted to merge the competing ideas of the field’s titans, including Wolfgang Pauli, the first physicist to predict the existence of neutrinos (the smallest particles of matter), and Albert Einstein, who explained the curvature of space-time.
Christians have traditionally explained human suffering as the result of Adam’s original sin, which we have all supposedly inherited.
This is easily explained by their geographic segregation, higher levels of unemployment, higher school dropout rates, and disproportionately frequent interactions with the criminal justice system.
Some of this we understand, but most of the material in the universe, and the forces associated with it, are not well explained.
The GCC countries mostly blamed Maliki for not doing more to address Sunni political frustration, as if that explained the IS’s campaign of mass murder.
Earlier this year, he explained to Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that he had doubts about Western intervention in Libya for fear of repeating events in Iraq.
My apartment mate explained that everyone in her office, in the US Department of Education, had used the excuse of a birthday party to watch the US-Germany match.
Last week, addressing a gilded ballroom packed with the elite of Argentina’s business community, Kicillof explained the government’s policies as a real-world application of Keynesian theories.
Assuming that Trump’s advisers have explained these complications to him, one wonders what his real rationale is.
As it stands, the low official unemployment rate can be explained partly by declining participation rates, especially among workers aged 25-54.
This can only be explained as the result of a Manichean ideology that insists on a stark choice between macroeconomic stability and chaos.
As Gauck explained, Europeans “are pausing to… equip [themselves] both intellectually and emotionally for the next step, which will require [them] to enter uncharted territory.”
Nor can the discrepancy be fully explained by California’s demographics, because at Stanford, California’s top private university, the Asian-American enrolment is, at 23%, still much lower than at California’s leading state institutions.
Eight of the top 10 performers in 2004 are either oil-exporting countries or post-conflict economies, with the latter’s high annual growth rates explained mostly by the proverbial “dead cat bounce” – the low base period over which growth is measured.
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