Resistance is the usual explanation for sleeping on the couch.

It was passed with the usual cheerful explanations that lower prices and better services would follow.

All these exclude the child from the usual comforting explanations about family activities and events.

It is the usual explanation - contemporary economics theory gives an inadequate account of the economic process.

And then you give them the usual explanation of what they are.

"You can't stop people from gambling," is the usual explanation, "so why shouldn't the profits go to the state instead of the gangsters?"

The third image at right shows the usual explanation of the effect.

This was the usual explanation of (human) dreams, but the staff doubted that it applied in Amy's case.

The usual explanation offered was the sudden need for more prisons.

The usual explanation is that they have something to tell us.