Chomsky thought that a functionalist explanation restricting itself to questions of communicative performance ignored important questions.

Besides, this explanation ignored the man in the smoking carriage, and gave no reason at all for his simultaneous disappearance.

This explanation ignores the underlying premise of the financial markets: There's a sucker born every minute.

It's a bit disingenuous, since this explanation ignores the way these men became governors.

This too-glib explanation ignores the salient fact that we do not know what kind of feather we are seeing.

"No explanation of those fiscal imbalances can ignore the weight of the Reagan military budgets."

But those explanations ignore the more obvious one: that he is rewarding the many police officers and firefighters for supporting his mayoral bid.

Conventional explanations of biodiversity in tropical forests in the decades prior to Connel and Lowman's work either ignored monodominance entirely or predicted that it wouldn't exist.

Some scholars insist this explanation ignores the religious context, and others question it as an apologetic of the philosophical coherence of the text.