personal explanation

This vote must therefore be accepted without any personal explanations.

Mrs Green has the floor on a point of personal explanation.

Hoping to stay hip, we turned to the artists for personal explanations.

It is not the practice for members of our profession to make personal explanations concerning the cases in which they are engaged.

But these specimens are so well labelled and classified that they hardly need your personal explanation.

There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack, involving a personal explanation.

Mr President, I have asked for the floor on a point of personal explanation.

General Bridges is forced to issue the exact contents of the telegram together with a personal explanation.

But tonight in Seattle, the President paused during a weekend of campaigning to offer his personal explanation.

My personal explanation comes from the insights and visions I have been granted by my spirit guides.

I allowed the personal explanation because the previous point of order referred directly to Mr Martin.

Napoleon's personal explanation of his unusual name.

I owe you, I think, a personal explanation."

She implored me to call him, to insist upon a personal explanation, and to offer him some present in the event of establishing amicable relations.

Personal explanations.

But there's a more personal explanation for why she won't be applying for any more grants like the $100,000 Philip Morris once donated.

Because we don't know . . . and because I damned well owe you a personal explanation of what may be forcing our hand!"

Interspersed between the dozen songs previewed on the sampler was a personal explanation from Jill for the inspiration behind some of her songs.

Finally, one can also question premise seven: why does a personal explanation have to lead to monotheistic (as opposed to deistic or polytheistic) accounts of intention?

Personal explanation (PE) is different from natural scientific explanation (NSE).

The personal explanations would come easiest: the rituals of Christmas Eve, the smell of fresh balsam, the stillness of a world cloaked in snow.

My personal explanation for this dancing behavior, is simpler: that it's fun and that it's a way of expressing mutual affection - the same reasons humans like to play.

Perhaps the child or the grandchild will invent a nostalgia, a personal explanation of current unhappiness, which will make of special significance the origin of the parent or grandparent.

(BG) I am taking the floor pursuant to that provision of the rules which gives me the right to personal explanation because Mr. Cohn-Bendit insulted people in this hall.

Many DVD's are now sold with the promise that they contain the "director's cut" - the filmmaker's uncompromised vision for his or her movie, complete with a personal explanation of every last frame.