Intricate philosophies would be contrived to account for its behavior.

The or- dinary incentives of pain and pleasure do not account for their behavior.

"I need not account for my behavior to you."

You will return there within forty-eight hours and keep yourself ready to account for your behavior to our superiors.

Sure enough, she had a psychiatric history that could account for her odd behavior.

She had wondered what could account for his cold behavior and his looks of shame.

Michelle and King both shook their heads, unable to come up with a theory that would account for the killer's behavior.

He was an ordinary-looking man and she could find nothing to account for his belligerent, offensive behavior.

It was the only thing that could account for Chakotay's behavior.

I'm trying to help you account for Krug's odd behavior, that's all.