Explanation
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This covenant, however, derives from notions or preconditions needing no
explanation.
Their
explanation
was that the West is uncomfortable with the motives and behavior of ideological states – Syria, Iran, and Iraq under Saddam were states with causes – Islam, Arab unity, or anti-Zionism.
Despite such red flags, few have demanded an
explanation
from financial authorities for why the new regulations are falling short.
But the real
explanation
lies elsewhere--and is much simpler.
Thus, dire need is the immediate
explanation
for the return of Third Way ideas.
A more plausible
explanation
is that institutional differences in the ability to borrow dictate to some extent the disparity in savings rates across countries.
US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke’s notion of a “global savings glut” is a commonly cited
explanation
for falling world interest rates.
Overall, while there are differences, the results do not lend strong support to the idea that recent events have a simple
explanation
in terms of differences in deep attitudes toward free markets or authoritarianism.
Key officials reject requests to be interviewed without
explanation.
Few events in history have generated so many concepts and theories for their
explanation
and assessment – or so many falsifications, both crude and sophisticated.
Indeed, one likely
explanation
of the observed gap in social values is that education is being deliberately used as a tool of indoctrination, with the purpose of consolidating autocratic governments.
Surprisingly, there is no well-received explanation, because this boom's ultimate causes are mostly psychological.
Availability of capital is not the
explanation.
In his
explanation
of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides famously argued that it was caused by Sparta’s fear of a rising Athens.
A couple of articles in one of my own books were deleted without an official explanation, and phrases, sentences, and even paragraphs have regularly been removed from my columns and commentaries in journals and newspapers.
To some extent, the
explanation
might seem obvious.
But, absent further analysis, the leadership vacuum becomes a catchall
explanation.
A second
explanation
addresses that question: While bold action is required, the complexity of economic conditions, and disagreement about the right policy responses, implies a risk of serious error.
The most likely
explanation
is a combination of the two, for he and Bush were pursuing the same “starve the beast” political strategy, which calls for tax cuts to be used to reduce revenues, thereby forcing the public sector to be downsized.
Indeed, one
explanation
I have often heard for the political turmoil in France in May 1968 is that the French people were bored with the successes of General de Gaulle’s presidency and so took to the streets around the Sorbonne for fun.
A second
explanation
is that the US strategy toward Russia and China has failed.
When this works, we have an “anthropic”
explanation
of the laws’ beauty: If they were not beautiful, we would not have found them.
Part of the
explanation
for the higher esteem in which the IMF is now held is its recent display of intellectual flexibility – a rare virtue for a big, lumbering bureaucracy.
The standard
explanation
is corruption.
But that simple
explanation
does not fit Chile.
In the case of Japan’s official response to the earthquake and tsunami-related disasters, however, cultural exoticism is not an adequate
explanation.
There should also be an explanation, if weapons of mass destruction are uncovered at other sites, as to why the inspectors could not have found such weapons in a realistic period of time.
When the 13 British colonies in North America launched their own War of Independence, Thomas Jefferson understood that "the decent respect to the opinions of mankind" required an
explanation
for that war, which he set forth in the Declaration of Independence.
Such an explanation, backed by rigorous evidence, is no less necessary today.
There is no single
explanation
for these developments.
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