MPs said there had been "no satisfactory explanation" for the decision to close the Clyde and Forth stations.

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

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However, said Dr Papachristoforou, this had never seemed an entirely satisfactory explanation because 2-heptanone was so volatile that it quickly lost its potency.

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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.

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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.

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