1.   Each, in any event, offers explanations at a level deeper than prediction.

2.   He offered no explanation for his actions.

3.   Her parents offered no explanation when police boarded their plane at Chicago airport yesterday to arrest them for abandoning their children.

4.   I tried to offer explanations, drawing on my brief legal experience.

5.   No one could offer an explanation for his mysterious disappearance.

6.   Powell could offer no explanation for the militaristic style of the courtrooms.

7.   Scientists have offered various explanations for these changes in climate.

8.   She offered no explanation as to why she had left so suddenly.