"To need an explanation" means that someone wants or requires a clear, detailed answer or clarification in order to understand or make sense of something.
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These were things we just expected and had grown accustomed to, and as such, didn't really
need explanations for.
The potential for injury from falls is heightened and the implications of fault being found with the school / college / university for failure to take proper precautions to prevent
accidents need no explanation.
If there was something you
feel needs an explanation, write about it in your cover letter — see our guides on what to put in a cover letter and our cover letter tips.
And of course, the Starbucks cup doesn't really
need an explanation because yummy drinks go with every season and every outfit (just watch out and try not to spill on yourself all the time, coffee stains are the worst, I would know).
Whitehead in his turn, as Lewis Ford has pointed out, claimed that anything complex
needs an explanation in a decision somewhere, and even the metaphysical structures of the world are the result of the divine primordial act giving order to the otherwise chaotic eternal objects (cf. 2).
Apfelbaum is by now so well known for her «fallen paintings» — floor installations of hand dyed and cut pieces of cotton velvet — that they
hardly need explanation.
If anyone in America
still needed an explanation of how rich people use their money to silence others, President Donald Trump has you covered.
We no
longer need an explanation if the martyrs were real or not, leave it to the ones who need to something concrete to sustain their faith.
I still remember the 2 - 0 victory over City when everyone believed that we had turned a corner but what happened
next needs no explanation.
The first one
probably needs no explanation, but about the pants: if I gain or lose enough weight to necessitate a change in sizes, I will buy new pants regardless of the cost - per - wear of my old ones.
This
particularly needs explanation because Pilate would not have hesitated to slaughter bystanders if he thought it necessary to preserve order (he did so more than once).