If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

The fall of Rome, the discovery of precious metals, and the Protestant Reformation were all links and could only be explained and understood by comprehending the links that preceded and those that followed.

Piddington and Minnett explained their observations by pointing out that rocklike materials which are likely to make up the surface of the moon would be partially transparent to radio waves, although opaque to infrared radiation.

The higher heat transfer rates at the anode compared with those at the cathode can be explained by the physical phenomena occurring in free burning arcs.

This negative pressure is not explained by the velocity head Af since this is not sufficient to explain the readings by several magnitudes.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

She explained nonreactivity of others by saying that they were `` not letting themselves relax ''.

They explained value judgments by explaining them away.

If the argument is accepted as essentially sound up to this point, it remains for us to consider whether the patient's difficulties in orienting himself spatially and in locating objects in space with the sense of touch can be explained by his defective visual condition.

`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.

He explained that by law the council must establish procedures for a vote on the issue within 60 days after the board of canvassers completes its work.

The past usefulness of the anti-trust laws to management was explained by Thurman Arnold, in The Folklore of Capitalism, back in 1937.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

He does what he can and may and must, without regarding himself as lord of the future or, on the other hand, as covered with guilt by accident or unforeseen consequences or by results he did not `` permit '' in the sense explained.

He denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system.

Eta-squared describes the ratio of variance explained in the dependent variable by a predictor while controlling for other predictors.

Eta-squared is a biased estimator of the variance explained by the model in the population ( it estimates only the effect size in the sample ).

In the book, he proposed and explained in detail a new theory of humankind: mankind as a " time-binding " class of life ( humans perform time binding by the transmission of knowledge and abstractions through time which are accreted in cultures ).

Nevertheless, the basic idea of the atom was adopted by scientists thousands of years later because it elegantly explained new discoveries in the field of chemistry.

The appearance of fixed lines in this spectrum was successfully explained by these orbital transitions.

Chemical bonds between atoms were now explained, by Gilbert Newton Lewis in 1916, as the interactions between their constituent electrons.

As late as the eighteenth-century some juries still declared the law rather than the fact, but already before the end of the seventeenth century Sir Matthew Hale explained modern common law adjudication procedure and acknowledged Bacon as the inventor of the process of discovering unwritten laws from the evidences of their applications.

Comptroller of the Navy Sir Charles Middleton explained to Prime Minister Pitt in a letter of 5 September 1786: “ It is for Hemp only we are dependent on Russia.

The principal drafter of this provision, Sir Geoffrey Harrison, explained that this article was not intended to approve the expulsions but to find a way to transfer the competence to the Control Council in Berlin so as to regulate the flow.

The circumstances surrounding the conception of the boy Galahad are explained by Sir Thomas Malory and derive from the Lancelot-Grail cycle: Elaine, the daughter of King Pelles, the Grail King, uses magic to trick Sir Lancelot into thinking that she is Queen Guinevere, whom Lancelot loves.

By his method of observation and induction as thus explained, his philosophy will be found to be marked off very clearly, on the one hand from the deductive construction of notions of an absolute system, as represented either by Schelling or Hegel, which Cousin regards as based simply on hypothesis and abstraction, illegitimately obtained ; and on the other, from that of Kant, and in a sense, of Sir W. Hamilton, both of which in the view of Cousin are limited to psychology, and merely relative or phenomenal knowledge, and issue in scepticism so far as the great realities of ontology are concerned.

Syndicate member Sir John Astor explained: " We were going to negotiate, but we were not going to pay.

Rothermere offered Trenchard the post of Chief of the Air Staff and before Trenchard could respond, Rothermere explained that Trenchard's support would be useful to him as he was about to launch a press campaign against Sir Douglas Haig and Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

However, Sir William Broadbent gave medical testimony that these could be explained by the gravity and nature of the diabetes from which he had suffered.

The Arab representatives submitted a statement to the committee from Sir Michael McDonnell which explained that whatever McMahon had intended to mean was of no legal consequence, since it was his actual statements that constituted the pledge from His Majesty's Government.

The Arab representatives submitted a statement to the committee from Sir Michael McDonnell which explained that whatever McMahon had intended to mean was of no legal consequence, since it was his actual statements that constituted the pledge from His Majesty's Government.

In a 2005 interview with Thomas de Waal, he revealed the involvement of British Ambassador Sir Andrew Wood and explained that his former negotiations counterpart, the leader of

In January 1960 the council ’ s chairman, the unabashed patriot Sir Norman Martin, announced the introduction of a new annual award for the ‘ Australian of the Year .’ He explained that Australia Day was a fitting occasion on which to give proper recognition to a leading citizen, whose contribution to the nation ’ s culture, economy, sciences or arts was particularly outstanding.

Fluid mechanics was thus discredited by engineers from the start, which resulted in an unfortunate split – between the field of hydraulics, observing phenomena which could not be explained, and theoretical fluid mechanics explaining phenomena which could not be observed – in the words of the Chemistry Nobel Laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood.

After the chlorine gas attack at Ypres in 1915, Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, explained what happened.

Several months later ( on Valentine's Day ), Sir Boyle explained himself in a public letter, starting with a description of his alarm upon hearing that the bishop of Derry ( then Frederick Hervey ) and his associates were bent on extending the legislative privilege:

Sir Anthony kept his silence over the Suez Crisis until 1967 when in his book No End of a Lesson, he explained that backing the Suez action would have put him in the position of lying to the House of Commons and the United Nations.

In 1925, he attended the funeral of former mayor Sir Adam Beck, earning the scorn of London's upper class by wearning a business suit and a straw hat -- " the only hat I owned " -- he explained.

In their 1886 dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.

We should have been none the wiser had Sir Charles not explained that he had chiselled a small hole through the centre of the stone, and put soil into it, so that the roots of the plant could by that means reach tho ground through the stone.

The whole facts of the case were most fully explained to the select committee by Sir Frederick Broome and the other witnesses, the blue book containing the report of the evidence being a complete compendium of information respecting Western Australia.

It was also set to music by Sir John Tavener, who explained, " The Lamb came to me fully grown and was written in an afternoon and dedicated to my nephew Simon for his 3rd birthday.

While visiting her uncle, British Ambassador Sir Peter Wilkinson, in Vietnam in 1968, Diana Villiers met John Negroponte at a dinner given in her honor and he " explained the constitutional assembly throughout the whole meal!