I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

`` Well '', he explained, `` s'posin' you was a nester swingin' the long rope??

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

The man, Tom said, explained that it was not only too long and detailed but that as it stood it wasn't the sort of thing the public wanted.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.

He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.

The purpose of this provision was thus explained in the Court's opinion: ``

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

Viola greeted me, in checked apron, ladle in hand, and explained it was the cook's night out and that she herself was preparing dinner.

Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.

He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.

( He explained that he could diagnose these ailments from squeezing her foot because all of the nervous system was connected to it.

and they censured parents who `` never disciplined and were too permissive '' or who `` never explained how easy it was to get pregnant ''.

Madden explained that he was thinking of an application sent directly to Mrs. Meeker.

`` I was an art major in college '', Miss Baldrige explained.

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

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

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.

The standard model of particle physics was developed that so far has successfully explained the properties of the nucleus in terms of these sub-atomic particles and the forces that govern their interactions.

And in the context of drifting personal utterances we have examined, there was occasional evidence of the origin of all such evasions.

With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

The same schema was adopted by James Patrie ( 1982 ) in the context of an attempt to classify the Ainu language.

His first ( pre-IHÉS ) breakthrough in algebraic geometry was the Grothendieck – Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem, a far-reaching generalisation of the Hirzebruch – Riemann – Roch theorem proved algebraically ; in this context he also introduced K-theory.

* The being which manifests in Christianity also manifests in all faiths and religions, and each religion is valid and true for the time and cultural context in which it was born ;

Aelian was discussing the use of the counter march in the context of the Roman sword gladius and spear pilum.

Later still, abstraction was manifest in more purely formal terms, such as color, freedom from objective context, and a reduction of form to basic geometric designs.

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

Scholarly discussion about Beowulf in the context of the oral tradition was extremely active throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

The context of the fight over free trade was famine in Ireland, which Peel hoped might be remedied by importation of grain.

In discussions of binary-addressed memories, the exact size was evident from context.

The distribution was discovered in the context of classical statistical mechanics by J. W.

Biblical scholar Ehud Ben Zvi reminds readers of the socio-historical context in which Hosea was composed.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

Connolly also suggests that in context the marriage metaphor was necessary in that it truly exemplified the unequal interaction between Yahweh and the people Israel.

It was in this context that the prophet commonly referred to as Malachi delivered his prophecy.

" This suggests that " the text and context was meant to apply to Nicodemus particularly, and not to the world.

In the context of the prevailing balance of power, the emperor's crucial goal was to preserve Ethiopian independence.

The first entry, from 1586, shows the word was at one time used in the context of discussions of Platonic theories of knowledge.

In this article, he also defended a comment made by Professor Griff in the past that he says was taken out of context by the media.

The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.

A collection of Preston and Bishop's original essays exploring the argument from the context of philosophy and cognitive science was published in 2002.

In Hinduism, particularly in an esoteric context, the four states-of-matter describe matter, and a fifth element describes that which was beyond the material world.

The first established use of the term in a political context was by François-René de Chateaubriand in 1819, following the French Revolution.