Sentences with phrase «possible explanation as to»

They offered no possible explanation as to why the oil was empty, I assumed it wasn't topped up.

This mechanism may be one possible explanation as to why 10 percent of the population develop alcohol use disorders and this study may be helpful for the development of future medications to treat this devastating disease.»

The flagship article, though, was this piece by Matt Moore of the Associated Press that looked at the big picture and summoned up some possible explanations as to why print comics sales have grown, rather than shrunk, since the advent of digital comics.

Any possible explanations as to why?

Not exact matches

As I wrote last week, one possible explanation for why Boehner and the rest of the Republican establishment have given the Tea Party so much free rein is that they fear primary challengers to the right.

What matters, in these cases, is that someone on your team is brave enough, vulnerable enough, to use a sentence that starts with, «The story I'm making up right now is...» The idea is to reach the truth as quickly possible, instead of wandering around with your made - up explanation, which more than likely consists of your own shame triggers, and has little relation to reality.

Create an explanation for your topic, making sure to keep it as simple and clear as possible.

One possible explanation is that when market uncertainty increases, investors have two choices as to how to reduce risk in their portfolios.

When Federal Reserve officials first started last year to mention wireless network data plans as a possible explanation for a fifth year of «transitory» factors holding back consumer price inflation, it seemed a bit transparent.

For me I see evolution the same as you see God not enough proof to say I believe it and see God as how all things started, in my view evolution of man can be true just that it has not been proven where God I can see because there is no other logical explanation for how the matter in the universe came to be from nothing, a higher power for now can be the only possible answer if science was to prove the creation of the universe in some other way I would not deny that truth.

You have chosen to believe it's not possible for God to exist a priori so any possible indication that he may, you simply reject as not possible even when there is no other scientific explanation for credible miraculous events (ones that can not be mere coincidences) other than supernatural.

The only two explanations I can find for this discrepancy are A) you intentionally chose a semi-loony blogger as the only source defending the Pope in an effort to paint the picture as brutally critical as possible or B) you're egregiously incompetent.

The study can only look for an effect from prayers offered as part of the research, they said.They also said they had no explanation for the higher complication rate in patients who knew they were being prayed for, in comparison to patients who only knew it was possible prayers were being said for them.»

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

Avoid vague explanations to your children's questions, but answer each question as honestly as possible.

We must stay as close as possible to the text and reason it out guided by other text of scripture according to what is written and not according to some random explanation of men.

It is possible that a Freudian explanation in terms of unconscious aims and wishes might account for some instances of this type of temporary inability to remember, but there are so many ordinary, common, innocuous instances of this phenomenon that to account for them all in terms of negative prehensions generated by hidden aims strikes me as highly unsatisfactory.

As an explanation, the thesis does not make predictions possible, but it does refer to a condition for the unpredictable intrusion of law in the world.

A hypothesis is a conjecture put forth as a possible explanation of phenomena, which serves as a basis for empirical science to uncover some fundamental laws.

With this latter proviso, Kim provides a possible opening for a form of compatibilism: Rationalizing explanations may be compatible with physical explanations, but only if they can be regarded as reducible to them.

(Repressions amount to explaining away unpleasant events, and thus, as explicable, represent a special case in the range of possible explanations.)

Just as with color perceptions, time also seems to belong to those objects which constitute a kind of limiting case in the domain of possible explanations.

But I shall keep myself as far as possible at present to the more «scientific» view; and only as the plot thickens in subsequent lectures shall I consider the question of its absolute sufficiency as an explanation of all the facts.

Modern mathematicians like Sir James Jeans can find in God, the Thinker, the final explanation of the starry heavens and of man's life; and a modern philosopher like Alfred North Whitehead can find God to be the vision of the whole and of what can be, and the mediating thought between them, as he contemplates or «envisages» the possible beauty of the harmonies among the worlds of flux.

For if, e. g., a man loses consciousness as soon as his brain is injured, it is clearly as good an explanation to say the injury to the brain destroyed the mechanism by which the manifestation of the consciousness was rendered possible, as to say that it destroyed the seat of consciousness.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

The first part of a possible Whiteheadian explanation for these phenomena consists in the fact that actual occasions making up, say, the eyes, are basically selective in «receiving» their data from the external world due both to (i) the presence of negative as well as positive prehension in the first phase of concrescence (those that exclude and include data in the concrescence, respectively), and (ii) the activity of «transmutation» in a subsequent phase.»

A great explanation of ethical veganism comes from the International Vegetarian Union, «Veganism may be defined as a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possible and practical, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose.

I'm sure there is a possible, if implausible explanation for each of those inconsistencies... but as you start to stack implausibilities, the likelihood increases that it's a much simpler explanation, i.e. either a huge exaggeration or outright fabrication.

As a result, the frenzy might have to settle down as although speculation continues to link him with a move to England, with both Arsenal and Chelsea also mentioned as possible destinations, as noted by The Daily Star last year, it all sounds as though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stagAs a result, the frenzy might have to settle down as although speculation continues to link him with a move to England, with both Arsenal and Chelsea also mentioned as possible destinations, as noted by The Daily Star last year, it all sounds as though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stagas although speculation continues to link him with a move to England, with both Arsenal and Chelsea also mentioned as possible destinations, as noted by The Daily Star last year, it all sounds as though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stagas possible destinations, as noted by The Daily Star last year, it all sounds as though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stagas noted by The Daily Star last year, it all sounds as though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stagas though there are valid explanations and little for Atleti supporters to be concerned about at this stage.

The study noted that another possible explanation for the great NMT effectiveness in the mid-teen age group may be variability in the «quality» of athletes participating in the cutting, pivoting, and jumping sports such as soccer, volleyball and basketball in the younger ages, so that targeting NMT to athletes who are at higher risk results in greater reduction of that risk.

Take your time as well to visit your doctor and get more detailed explanations on other possible causes of your breast soreness.

The exact reason for the link between morning sickness and miscarriage risk is not known, but one possible explanation is that non-viable pregnancies, such as those affected by chromosomal abnormalities, have lower hCG levels and this might lead to fewer pregnancy symptoms.

«If Interim Healthcare is unable to respond to any inquiry in full, please provide all available responsive information and a detailed explanation as to why a more complete response is not possible,» Lucas wrote.

@ Luis Enrique (and a bit @ Thomas): A conception of what political philosophy does might be something like: attempts to systematize political structures, in order both to provide as coherent an explanation as possible of our current intuitions, and extrapolate from them to prescriptions for how they might be improved / made more consistent.

«I'm on the record as saying I absolutely do not believe in the explanations for homeopathy and how it quote unquote works,» she says, before adding: «But I do believe in the placebo effect and it's possible that if a placebo is the best treatment for a lower back pain, for example, then that's what the evidence shows and in a lot of these areas there hasn't been enough research done to really tell that.

A possible explanation is that Clarke would indeed win more votes from Labour as leader, but they would be partially cancelled out by Tory voters drifting away to UKIP or other fringe parties.

In addition to surveying and ruling out intelligence and socioeconomic status as possible explanations, the team explored whether differences in upbringing could play a role.

Researchers see this as a possible explanation for hayfever, which is strongly associated with pollen sensitization, having increased from 22 percent to 31 percent in Sweden, between 1990 - 2008, while the incidence of asthma, that is strongly associated with furred animals and mite sensitization, remained unchanged for the same period.

Wordsworth and his collaborators looked to these long - lost gases — known as reducing gases — to provide a possible explanation for Mars» early climate.

Those who were exposed to the highest concentrations of ozone were about 20 percent more likely to develop diabetes, even after adjusting for other possible explanations such as diet and exercise levels.

She notes that the study's authors took great pains to exclude other possible explanations for the subsurface oxidation, whether from sediment mixing by tiny organisms or from oxidation by nonbiological agents such as nitrates and metallic oxides.

The authors controlled for other possible explanations, such as the possibility that hermit thrushes could select notes using the resonances of their vocal tract in a manner similar to wind instruments like the alphorn.

So I start with Occam's razor: «Do not multiply entities unnecessarily,» which, if you prefer, means that you should as far as possible use explanations you already understand when trying to make sense of something new.

The link between crust thickness and age prompted two possible explanations — both related to the fact that hotter mantle tends to make more magma: Mantle hot spots — highly volcanic regions, such as the Hawaiian Islands and Iceland — could have thickened the old crust by covering it in layers of lava at a later time.

«This points to two possible explanations: There are protective measures we don't see, such as resilience, or we're not asking the right questions that address adverse experiences specific to immigrant children such as fear of deportation of separation,» says Tania Caballero, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics research and clinical fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's first author.

The only thing they can do: conduct thorough forensic analysis and testing on the affected vehicles and all of the throttle components to evaluate every possible explanation as quickly as they can.

Another possible explanation is that existing treatments, such as statins, are already so effective at improving cardiovascular outcomes that it has become more difficult to further improve outcomes in high - risk patients.

10 Possible explanation: Pregnant women tend to develop gingivitis (inflammation of the gums) as hormonal shifts make the tissues more sensitive to irritation.