But Hasse and McLelland both spoke harshly of his character and dismissed his explanation.
His recollection of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam was poignant and heartfelt, as was his explanation of how he was "never the same again" because he stopped being his own man and became his country's man.
Representing Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, lawyer Sylvain Cormier said his client was innocent and he would "give his explanation before the tribunal".
Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.
We've listened very carefully to his explanation and he will be giving it to the full Board at their next meeting on May 10.
Dr Olsen and his colleagues suggest that the explanation for this rapid increase in size may be a phenomenon called ecological release.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has called on Andy Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World during the period the allegations cover, to give a "full and open explanation" of his role in the affair.
In the end, the only explanation he and his colleagues could offer was this: The other doctors and hospitals in McAllen may be overspending, but, to the extent that his hospital provides costlier treatment than other places in the country, it is making people better in ways that data on quality and outcomes do not measure.
And his matter-of-fact, detailed explanation shows just how remarkable, and risky, the first moon mission really was.
Dr Miller and his colleagues think they have the explanation for this immunological apathy.
Ask Chief Executive Robert Garvey, 61, for an explanation, and he jerks his thumb in the direction of his predecessor, James Todd Jr.
Another explanation is that Baigent and his colleagues have been the fiercest proponents of the idea that statin drugs work solely by lowering cholesterol.
Despite Grant's outbursts in court - he called his former wife a "liar" - the jury rejected his complex explanation of the burglaries and sex attacks.
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Rahall called on the company to give his committee more detailed logs and a further explanation of its staffing -- a request Transocean said it would meet.
Australian PM Julia Gillard has said she is "surprised and disappointed" by Malaysia's treatment of Senator Nick Xenophon and vowed to press for an explanation of his deportation.
Mjangos came up with his own bizarre explanation for his actions, including that he was in fact hired by boyfriends and husbands to see if the women would respond to requests for pornographic materials, a sort of fidelity test similar to what a private investigator might do to find a cheating spouse.
The dog, on whose collar hung an identification tag, tilted his head and panted as if patiently awaiting an explanation.
The same conservatives who despised Romney and then falsely predicted his victory have no understanding or explanation for what happened on election night, hence no credibility in further advising the GOP.
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"It's going to be 10 weeks of hell ... to hear this man, to hear his explanation of why he did it and how he did it, " said Trond Henry Blattmann, whose son was killed on Utoya Island.
Also wearing a red shirt was a man in a fast-moving photo kneeling over a female Boston victim, with one shared explanation that she was his girlfriend and he had planned to propose as she crossed the finish line but she died before he had a chance.
He doesn't trust the Department of Housing and Urban Development's explanation that the plan to remove his home was in place prior to the storm.
Edmund Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize for economics for his work on savings and labour markets, argues that the structural explanation for Europe's slower growth rates masks deeper problems with dynamism.
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Lord Ahmed told the Huffington Post that he was not anti-Semitic and said he did not have "any explanation or excuse" for his comments.
This week Mr Balthazard gave an interview to Le Figaro, a daily newspaper, describing how he was hustled off the premises without any explanation or evidence to back up the bald accusations that he and his colleagues faced.
Terence, meanwhile, is recovering at home and looking forward, hopefully, to some explanation of just what has been causing his problems.
We have to wait for the explanation from the OBR itself, but the chancellor says Robert Chote and his colleagues have looked at the years leading up to the crisis, and decided that growth was even less sustainable than we thought.
The explanation about the petrol splashing on his clothes was given during a police interview and was "perfectly plausible" according to Mr Nolan.
Unfortunately, his explanation of skinhead hatred as mere insanity feels like a cop-out, and protracted stock-footage sequences strain to connect a wider view of British unrest to the intimate story.
Mr Geithner presented a comprehensive explanation of the causes of the crisis, his response, the state of the economy and regulatory reform.
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When Robbins hits his stride, it starts to seem as if the only possible explanation is an ability to start and stop time.
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