It shouldn't even be explained away as simple party loyalty.
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"It kind of explained away everything for me," Scott said.
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The results cannot be explained away as based on poor data.
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No excuses for antisemitism: words to be condemned, not explained away.
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There has been nothing, so far, that can't be explained away.
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" This vote was later explained away as an "administrative process failure.
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The disconnect is easily explained away, though, by the report's other findings.
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Instead of condemning such behavior, it is often explained away and excused.
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But it was also an outcome that is not easily explained away.
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It was explained away as a "clerical error," which is fair enough.
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So everything that I had an issue with was easily explained away.
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Here we are simply told, and slowly, "Han Solo" is explained away.
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He's such a nice guy, that even his creepiest actions are explained away.
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Questions about the group's intentions, once whispered and optimistically explained away, are growing.
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The differences in later depression indicators could not be explained away by demographics.
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An overseas debacle too significant to be explained away by Fox's talking heads.
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Much of rock music history can be explained away by its swinging pendulum effect.
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Even the rough-and-tumble behavior of a regular InfantryBot could be explained away.
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Even though coincidences can be explained away by math, Mazur still finds them cool.
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Or they can be explained away — a Chambolle-Musigny made from a Nuits-St.
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Back then, the decline could be explained away by the state of the economy.
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For a little-known band, one Grammy nomination might be explained away as a fluke.
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When you subscribe to a conspiratorial world view, any failure can easily be explained away.
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The photographs that show Mr. Jois with his hands on students' vulvas get explained away.
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Maybe one of these incidents could be explained away by a slip of the tongue.
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If Hyrule is indeed not Earth, the fantasy-type characters can be explained away—they're aliens.
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Optimists explained away traders' apparent pessimism using arguments that have started to crop up again today.
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A winter flu-like bug explained away the unusually long stays in bed and the lethargy.
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Kavanaugh also explained away the "devil's triangle" — also mentioned in his yearbook — as a drinking game.
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People have explained away how everyone could've been so wrong about Trump's victory with other reasons, too.
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But these signs could be explained away by, say, more aerodynamic car designs, or changes to farming.
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What's more, some of Michigan Republicans' key losses can't be explained away by an embrace of Trump.
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She struggles with anxiety, panic attacks, and mental breaks that aren't explained away by magic or prophecies.
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Thankfully, the top bezel can be explained away with the addition of a Windows Hello-compatible camera.
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Virginia's GOP wipeout was explained away by saying that the Old Dominion is really a blue state.
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In other words, the gender pay gap cannot be explained away by women's perceived or real choices.
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The grazing felt slightly sensual, but the bulge was in a place that couldn't be explained away.
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But there's also a strong likelihood that the use of this term in particular would be explained away.
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Yet the gap between what people hope for and what they get cannot be explained away so easily.
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But because these searches are conducted in ways different from DAMA, their results might somehow be explained away.
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Throughout the course of the campaign, Trump's supporters have easily explained away everything from his attack on Sen.
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The terrors of the first two movies are explained away in a summary flourish, and their mysteries neutralized.
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P. time", an apparent reference to "colored people time" that Clinton jokingly explained away as "cautious politician time.
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In the season 13 premiere episode, the "SVU's" writers explained away Stabler's sudden absence as an abrupt retirement.
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There's only one jarring anachronism, a reference to the emergency number 911, that can't quite be explained away.
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Some of this can be explained away by citing unfairly lofty expectations foisted upon him in his teens.
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Of course, any of these tributes can be explained away for simply what they are -- well-intentioned condolence.
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His actions seem to be explained away as part of his "eccentric" nature, but that's a real cop-out.
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But despite the data, she said women's stories are frequently explained away or rejected as "one offs" by hospitals.
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"The good news is that some of the shortfall can be explained away," Gordon Haskett analyst Chuck Grom said.
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He's also always described as "gritty" and "a good defender" so his cheap shots get explained away as hustle.
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In the past, Yiannopoulos has explained away his offensive remarks by arguing that he's simply standing up for free speech.
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Cops say Sandrock explained away the masks and gloves by saying he's a germophobe, and that he wears them frequently.
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Each touch, look and comment can be explained away when taken individually, but together, they tell me he's a creep.
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Often racism and violence against Africans is explained away by resorting to stereotypes of criminality among Africans living in India.
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It explained away the FBI probe as part of a "deep state" attack on Trump, just like the Mueller investigation.
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Ultimately, Gravity Rush 2's biggest problem may be explained away as an ungainly leap from handheld game to console game.
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The magnitude of the coverage loss under both bills is too large to be explained away with any single tendentious argument.
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Maybe that can be explained away by the fact that Lucas, as Heather suggests, really does have some mental health issues.
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Testimony from African-Americans on the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan, for example, was explained away as funded falsehoods.
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The moment echoed a missed handshake between President Donald Trump and then-Prime Minister Theresa May, which was also explained away.
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And when that happens — when the deep bigotry that fueled the result is forgotten or explained away — racism will win yet again.
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Several seemingly vital clues as to the identity of H, left scattered through the series, were explained away in a dissatisfying fashion.
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Strzok during the hearing sought to emphasize that many of the texts messages under scrutiny could be explained away with some context.
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Allies have also explained away Kaine's approach at the debate as keeping Pence from getting any real attacks in on Hillary Clinton.
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Many in the sport who have rallied to Mr. Morris's defense have explained away his alleged behavior by saying times were different.
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Many in the sport who have rallied to Mr. Morris's defense have explained away his alleged behavior by saying times were different.
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Vijay smartly resists psychoanalyzing her, implying that the china-shop bulls in our families can be survived but never entirely explained away.
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Perhaps what we call "dark matter" can be explained away with a new theory that doesn't require finding some strange kind of mass.
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The 2006 original finale that saw the pair married (separately) with children was explained away as, in part, a dream that never happened.
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But the same can't be said for Sanders - there would be many embarrassing criticisms of Clinton that would have to be explained away.
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Of course, when "fringe" gains widespread public support, it no longer fits into the simple, established narratives and needs to be explained away.
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This is explained away so quickly that you may have missed it, especially if your theater had a big reaction to the reveal.
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Antipsychotics drugs, which are prescribed for schizophrenia, can also cause movement disorders, and odd movements would often be explained away by the drugs.
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They adjusted for the prevalence of substance abuse, and still the trend was there; it wasn't explained away by drug use or drinking.
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The deputy prime minister explained away a big collection of luxury watches last year, saying they were on loan from a conveniently deceased friend.
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Since those things have been gradually explained away, and lost potency as a result, Isolation is what's left to break the rules, quite literally.
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The discoloration and breast malformation depicted in Rembrandt's "Bathsheba at Her Bath," for instance, has been explained away with a variety of possible causes.
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Women being degraded and bullied in the workplace, or anywhere else, is vile and unacceptable but it's too often explained away or covered up.
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But the increased casualties in Syria "cannot be explained away simply by the increased tempo of the war," said Chris Woods, director of Airwars.
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That could be explained away by overheated valuations - but the price falls have come despite the currency being 15 percent cheaper for overseas buyers.
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But global climate change can't been explained away that easily—especially given the truckloads of evidence that humans are driving it by emitting greenhouse gases.
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After factoring in age, occupation, and other data, there's still a gender pay gap that can't be explained away, said Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin.
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While some of the bond moves can be be explained away, the outstanding question is what changed to force a massive repositioning in bond holdings.
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The shift must've been intentional, but it does create a disjuncture between the characters and the viewer that can't entirely be explained away by their age.
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But there is plenty of evidence that workplace segregation, and men's and women's differing career paths, cannot be explained away as a matter of differing preferences.
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Global superpower China has explained away its disappointing medals haul at the Rio Olympic Games by noting a shift in the national mood and sporting policy.
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As long as the conversation focuses on censorship instead of antitrust, Google just isn't that involved, and the broader concerns about Dragonfly can be explained away.
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Even the apparent kidnapping of Olivia's co-star Samuel Ryan (Jack Huston), which is explained away by the Romanovs crew, becomes more understandable through this lens.
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What my narrative was lacking—just as it had been the first time, years ago—was any single fact that couldn't be explained away by coincidence.
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But in evolutionary psychology, many differences between genders in our society (including deep inequities) can be neatly explained away by hard-wired differences in in our brains.
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Even so, we've seen 5.1mm phones that still include one, so Lenovo's decision can't be explained away as a simple engineering constraint in trying to maximize thinness.
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The problem for Trump is that some realities cannot be explained away by complaints about "fake news" or by his usual methods of blaming and shaming others.
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While management explained away the cancellations as a one-off rostering screw-up, pilots believed there was a deeper problem - that disaffected colleagues were leaving in droves.
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He wrote that Trump raised the prostitution claim at least four times with him and explained away the allegation in a call with Comey on January 11, 2017.
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To him, much of what people call science could be explained away in more mystical terms; we can't walk around solely accepting what we can see and touch.
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But their concerns about vaping were quickly explained away by a speaker who visited their school in April 2018 to give a presentation about mental health and addiction.
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A lot of the differences we saw could be explained away simply by how difficult it is to take two identical photos with different devices in the real world.
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And these earnings can't be explained away by education: No matter your level of education, computer skills still brought in a wage premium — one that's nearly doubled since 2002.
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Similar incidents can be explained away by experts in MMA refereeing, but based on Marc Goddard's reaction to the non-stoppage, Perceval was clearly at fault during the sequence.
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Both tweeted that the discrepancies in Wisconsin were explained away when the data was controlled for the voting population in areas that used paper ballots as opposed to machines.
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"These two factors were independent of each other; the link between bedtimes and obesity could not be explained away by a child's inability to regulate their emotions," she noted.
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They were considered basement dwellers entering the season, but their record cannot be explained away as facing bad opponents, as two of their wins came against Denver and Atlanta.
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In one moment, the former El Paso congressman had captured the left's furor over how Trump's racist actions are discussed -- and at times explained away -- on the national stage.
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This is troubling to a lot of people from a constitutional perspective, and I don't think it can be explained away in terms of a lost privilege or anything.
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Images of the two leaders clutching hands appear to some a little overly intimate, but were explained away in part by the president's reported fear of slopes, stairs and gradients.
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Mandadi Was Taken Off Life Support On Halloween Doctors immediately noticed bruising around Mandadi's neck and thighs, which Howerton allegedly explained away as coming from the rough sex they'd had.
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Of course, if someone did want to introduce an opportunity for manipulation, the best method would be one that could be explained away as an accident if it was found.
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Her voice was almost unrecognizable in the role, and she infused the character with enough personality that you almost forgot that the weirdness was explained away with tainted tattoo ink.
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I'm aware that human memory is faulty, and that many of my experiences might be explained away by childhood fantasy, or sleep paralysis, or critters in the attic or walls.
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The actual meaning and content of those beliefs is excised in favor of a maudlin romantic plot and a mystery; anything that appears mysterious or supernatural is quickly explained away.
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The hardest thing for the combat sports purist to get over is that sometimes ugly wins and it cannot always be explained away by a failure in the more scientific fighter.
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Bulldozing Walter as she attempted to comment on her own abuse, Jason Bateman repeatedly explained away the incident as normal, part of the acting process, and part of being a family.
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In a note shared to Instagram, Wisenbaker stated that he had seen glimpses of Adams' alleged abusive behavior, only to have it explained away by the alt-rocker with convincing denials.
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And Washington is, after all, where a representative, Henry Hyde, once explained away an extramarital dalliance by classifying it among his "youthful indiscretions," even though he was 41 at the time.
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It was an inconsequential detail that could have simply been explained away as a misstep but that became a metaphor for Trump's volcanic ego and refusal to ever admit he's wrong.
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And he explained away his loss in the popular vote by asserting falsely that he actually won that, too, but for millions of people who supposedly voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.
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As you can see in the video below, the Deerpark ghost isn't just a blip in the background that could easily be explained away, nor does it seem like a friendly spirit.
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It's still hard to say for sure what's going on there — the incident is explained away as an accident of some sort in a morning-after news segment we only see briefly.
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Spieth, the 2015 U.S. Open champion, recently explained away his victory drought as "a matter of perfecting swing adjustments" and bristled at the use of the present tense to describe his slump.
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However, police didn't believe his claims, and neither did the doctors who immediately noticed bruising around Mandadi's neck and thighs, which Howerton allegedly explained away as coming from the rough sex they'd had.
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Instead, he acknowledges the power of the message from Moscow (the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was explained away as a delaying tactic to allow Russia to prepare for its heroic role in defeating Hitler).
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Personal disgrace might have been explained away as a form of victimization by a greedy corporation, an unloving parent, systemic social forces — or with the claim, possibly true, that nearly everybody does it.
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The message was later explained away by aides as a reference to a separate report which showed private employers' payrolls growing, though initially officials admitted they weren't sure to what Trump was referring.
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George Zimmerman says the guy who punched him was pissed he explained away the Trayvon Martin shooting as self-defense -- and he says the puncher was far from supportive of the black community.
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Much of it was explained away by the sadsackery of the protagonists in every story but, depressing as this is, recent events haven't done much to back up the innocence of these bands' words.
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She told CNBC Wednesday that Key's naming of charities was explained away by government officials as a way to show it was wrong to pull names out of the Panama files and suggest guilt.
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If some $681m had appeared in the prime minister's personal account around the same time, which he breezily explained away as a gift from an unnamed admirer, the task would be all the harder.
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And any attempt to point out a lack of facts or simply note how threadbare the "theory" actually is can be explained away easily: "So you're in on it too!" or something like that.
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"As an event, the Phoenix Lights is important simply because it gained so much media attention, was witnessed by so many people, and today, can still not be precisely explained away," Breedlove told Motherboard.
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Folklore may be born from our inability to understand things that are beyond our reach, or that haven't been explained away by science, but it's also a doorway into the worst aspects of human nature.
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And I'd argue that almost all of the so-called "plot holes" fans have brought up are ultimately explained away within the film, or justified by how they play into the movie's overall storytelling structure.
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Unfair treatment in the workplace often comes in the form of "microaggressions" — subtle actions that undermine a person and are often explained away by forgetfulness, ignorance, or anything but the malice that usually inspired them.
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For decades, when evidence of a more advanced Neanderthal way of life turned up, it was often explained away, or mobbed by enough contrary or undermining interpretations that, over time, it never found real purchase.
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There is greater acceptance than in the past that mental illness is real and common, and that when it arises, its causes are complex and cannot be explained away as weakness or lack of character.
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If the results continue to support Wheeler's original argument, then "it gives us yet another reason to say that wave-particle duality is not going to be explained away by some classical physics explanation," Kaiser said.
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What we find is that media events typically have a relatively consistent lifecycle, with a consistent ebb and flow in polling as the events reach maximum public saturation and then are promptly forgotten or explained away.
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And he explained away a moment in Thursday night's CNN town hall in South Carolina in which he seemed to suggest he supports the individual health insurance mandate included in President Barack Obama's health care law.
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Instead of seeing its tortured language about the militia as a kind of archaic oddity, as something that must either be "updated" or explained away, Dunbar-Ortiz instead grounds the Second Amendment in something much bigger.
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A record spike in the stock market fear gauge, or VIX, could be easily explained away as an isolated event tied to a few ill advised bets that the recent low volatility environment would last indefinitely.
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That unless Jews are murdered by neo-Nazis, the one group everyone of conscience recognizes as evil, Jews' inconvenient murders, their beatings, their discrimination, the singling out of their state for demonization will be explained away.
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But when discussing testimony by witnesses who explained away various meetings with Russians, the report instead presents what they said with neutral terms, like "stated," or uses words connoting the idea that they were acknowledging a truth.
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Of course there was a time when it was comforting to be able to "blame" gayness on genetics: Whatever problems straight friends and family had with a loved one's sexuality could easily be explained away and, thus, forgiven.
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Maybe, or maybe it can be explained away given the fact that Michael is the Antichrist and, as established during his mother Vivian's (Connie Britton) pregnancy during Murder House, grows at a faster rate than the average person.
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Trump received significantly more votes in areas with voting machines than areas with paper ballots, but that perplexing result was quickly explained away by polling gurus including 538's Nate Silver and The New York Times's Nate Cohn.
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That public opinion can't fully agree on that points to a deeper problem with how even these exaggerated acts — the stuff that is so often presented as "clearly racist" — can be quickly explained away and defined out of existence.
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Typically, the Kremlin deploys layers of surrogates and proxies offering business inducements, information or threatened reprisals that can individually be explained away by coincidence while masking the strings and guiding hands of the Kremlin's puppet masters and their objectives.
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The alleged egalitarianism of peer-to-peer connections means that behavior that would be unacceptable today in a corporate office is ignored or explained away as "weird" when it occurs behind closed doors in a client's bedroom or kitchen.
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Leniency should not have been an option for the league office at this embryonic stage of the season, lest players everywhere come away with the belief that punches, spitting and face-jabs are offenses that can be explained away.
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But, even when a critic allows for the somewhat antique formulation of these arguments (as Storr goes on to do), there is still something about the vicarious emotion provoked by the figurative that must be explained away or excused.
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" Requiring those users to complete a three-item checklist — which included an educational definition of racial profiling — shifted the "cultural norm," Eberhardt explained, away from "see something, say something" and toward "if you see something suspicious, say something specific.
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Instead, it expects "bug doors" — flaws that can be explained away as a mere mistake if they come to light, but that can be exploited for the same purposes by China or by other sophisticated actors who discover them.
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But the ending robs the audience of the most terrifying moment of all: realizing that the most horrible moments we've witnessed are all too possible, and that in the real world, they can't be explained away by a inter-generational cult.
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Aladdin is not a movie constricted by reality; a hundred more dancers, hype men, and animals could be thrown in here and explained away as "genie magic" (an explanation used in the film for Aladdin's Clark Kent-level disguise as Ali).
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" Oh said: "We can hardly discern the seriousness or real effect of what Duterte blurts out in colorful language on an almost daily basis, only to be typically diluted or explained away by other Philippine officials a short while later.
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Fresh analysis from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found that just over a third (36.1 percent) of the gap in pay between men and woman can be explained away by women doing different jobs or part-time work.
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And even if that stigma still exists, it's obviated by cosmetic enhancements becoming so sophisticated that they're devilishly hard to detect, any subtle improvement easily explained away by claims of cutting out gluten, hitting the gym more often, getting plenty of rest etc.
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In the former, it's come through a genocidal, patriarchal government where the brutal treatment of women is explained away, first as a return to traditional religious values, and later, as a dire necessity for the health of the human race and the planet.
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Ignacio Trujillo, a scientist specializing in Extragalactic Astronomy at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, has shown that the strange behaviour of these ultra-diffuse galaxies can be explained away by measuring how far away they are using alternative methods.
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"In a nutshell, unlike in March, April's soft inflation across a range of core goods and services prices cannot be explained away by large, one-off price adjustments or other quirks in the data," PIMCO U.S. economist Tiffany Wilding wrote in a blog post.
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The real political danger is the same one that caused Hillary Clinton weeks of bad headlines, when she explained away gargantuan speaking fees, and tried to relate to people of modest means, by noting that she and Bill were "dead broke" when his presidency ended.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Part of the U.S. Treasury yield curve "inverted" this week, setting off debate over whether it is delivering a classic signal of oncoming recession or it has just developed a short-term kink that can be explained away by technical reasons.
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His choice of modernism for the style of the Trump Towers in Chicago and New York can simply be explained away by the fact that modern, all-glass buildings are the hegemonic aesthetic signature of corporate capitalism: It is the style of big business.
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In her letter, LaBorde also referred to the strength of the medical evidence regarding the injuries the victim experienced as a virgin, saying her injuries were more likely to be explained away because such injuries are common when someone has her first sexual encounter.
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There is a difference in degree between his actions and that of most other men who have been publicly accused, but Biden's behavior, which some have explained away as the ingrained habit of an old-fashioned but fundamentally well-meaning man, clearly crosses a line.
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While it's difficult to tease apart how much of the apparent spike in anxiety is related to an increase in awareness and diagnosis of the disorder, many of those who work with young people suspect that what they're seeing can't easily be explained away.
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The fact that Trump had to abolish his own commission [on voter fraud] ... his commission saying that 3 million Americans voted through fraud during his own election, that's how he explained away the popular vote going to Hillary Clinton ... that's just simply not true.
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And while his eyepatch is explained away in the comics as covering 95 percent vision loss in one eye due to shrapnel from a grenade blast during WWII, the MCU gave him a much more exciting (and hilarious) origin story for his eyepatch in Captain Marvel.
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The mutagen is explained away as a CRISPR-enabled instant DNA splice, but the story keeps changing, depending on the moment: it apparently also involves growth hormones, recombinant DNA that gives the mutated animals various superpowers, and some kind of programmed vulnerability to a homing beacon.
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But while that number suggests things are getting better, a deeper issue is lurking at the purveyor of classic American fashions — one that can't be explained away by unseasonable weather, ill-fitting clothes or any of the other excuses it's floated past investors over the past several months.
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Multiple sources close to Mel B tell us ... a close circle of friends and family didn't believe her when she explained away various injuries, and when they confronted her, she had trouble hiding what she now says is the truth ... that she was being viciously attacked by Belafonte.
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To Stewart's point, though, it must feel doubly bizarre for him and Colbert to navigate political comedy in an era when the man holding the highest office in the land is someone whose crude words can no longer be explained away as ratings gambits for a reality show.
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"While it's true that the most recent jobs report shows that the gap has narrowed a little, its existence still points to troubling discrepancies in the labor market that can't all be explained away by differences in education and skills," the Atlantic's Gillian White wrote earlier this month.
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The survey also found a "fake orgasm gap": 85 percent of men reported their partner had an orgasm last time they had sex, while just 64 percent of women reported having one (that gap was too big to be explained away by men who had had sex with men).
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"The large crude draw can entirely be explained away by the 7.1 million-barrel draw to Gulf coast inventories, as tax mitigation strategies meant crude cargoes remained offshore, rather than being brought onshore, where they would be taxed," said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at ClipperData in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Even without those backdrops, put those words into the mouth of ANY past presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, and that comment almost certainly would have been labeled a near campaign-ending gaffe, a mistake that certainly couldn't be explained away as a joke, and at the very least a headline for weeks.
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But Trump's willingness to attack allies like Australia, bluster at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like Mexico — while consistently blowing kisses to Russian President Vladimir Putin — cannot be explained away by his mere desire to improve relations with Moscow to defeat the Islamic State.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Senate to Question President's Son-in-Law on Talks With Russia" (front page, March 28): A spokeswoman for President Trump, Hope Hicks, explained away Jared Kushner's meeting with Sergey Gorkov, the Russian oligarch who runs Vnesheconombank, which has close ties to President Vladimir Putin, as routine diplomatic encounters.
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Five years after Erica Parsons was last seen, with her disappearance explained away by adoptive parents who said they gave her to a relative and never heard from her again, authorities on Thursday found the 13-year-old North Carolina's girl's skeletal remains in a shallow grave on rural property across the state line in South Carolina, PEOPLE confirms.
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Just 14 words from Mr. Posobiec's Twitter account would spread far enough to provide grist for a prime-time Fox News commentary and a Rush Limbaugh monologue that reached millions of listeners, forging an alternative first draft of history in corners of the conservative media where President Trump's troubles are often explained away as fabrications by his journalist enemies.
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On Sunday, one of Bloomberg's surrogates, Tim O'Brien, explained away the dozens of lawsuits filed against Bloomberg or his organizations, the majority of which deal with discrimination based on gender, race, disability status, and pregnancy status, by trying to make them seem normal — by saying they're just something someone with large organizations has to deal with.
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They may not know it, but those conservative Christians who continue to back Trump have sent messages that morality is contingent not upon right and wrong but upon whether you back the right political party; that adultery can be explained away; that lying about those with whom you disagree is perfectly fine; and that neither sexual assault nor open bigotry is reason to not support a candidate.
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During a news conference on Wednesday that was meant to quell fears, Trump explained away the Dow Jones Industrial Average's nearly 2,000-point dip on Monday and Tuesday not first and foremost by acknowledging reality — which is that investors are spooked by fears we're amid the early stages of a global pandemic — but by insisting that they're spooked by the prospect of Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden becoming the next president.
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