11.   Before I close this chapter, though, I want to explain my actions.

12.   Because the board has not explained its action, she said, it leaves the impression that the board caved in to parental complaints.

13.   A Boston Globe columnist who was fired for making stuff up wrote a final column explaining her actions and apologizing to her readers, more or less.

14.   But the message from studies of adolescents who kill others or themselves is that no single factor can explain their actions.

15.   But Wardrip has apparently tried to make amends, writing to the church to help explain his actions, Collard said.

16.   But when the action was explained late Tuesday in greater detail, he ordered it withdrawn.

17.   Corps officials cite tight budgets and the ability of local communities to fund the projects themselves to explain their action.

18.   Dwight Thomas, a criminal defense attorney, said any factor that tends to explain actions in a sympathetic manner can help the defense.

19.   Explaining his actions, Sprewell said he could no longer stand the verbal abuse heaped on him by Carlesimo.

20.   Facing a steady drumbeat of allegations, cardinals and bishops have struggled to explain their actions, let alone defend them.