He shows that religion does not provide a satisfactory explanation for anything.

ECONOMIST: Religion

Other countries have yet to get a satisfactory explanation as to why Iran had a document on shaping uranium metal into spheres, a trick useful only for making weapons.

ECONOMIST: Diplomacy and Iran

Mr Hain said he was told that access to the detainees would be granted "immediately" but that he had yet to receive a "satisfactory explanation" for the detentions.

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Other mechanisms at play in the climate complicate the issue, but none of them offers a remotely satisfactory alternative explanation for the temperature rise.

ECONOMIST: Climate controversies

He is the latest in a long line of respected Algerian politicians who have met a violent end for which there is no satisfactory explanation.

ECONOMIST: Abdelkader Hachani