Ms Hvistendahl has little truck with this account, which fails to explain why some of the richest, most outward-looking parts of India and China have the most skewed sex ratios.
It was a confusing situation, and that helps explain why Bissonnette's account differs from that of the Shooter.
John Denham, an influential former minister, thinks Britain needs a national story that includes an account of its global role in the 19th century, to explain why migrants from Commonwealth countries belong alongside Anglo-Saxons.
They concluded that such upwellings might indeed account for the catastrophic fish deaths, but that they would not explain the deaths of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, since these animals breathe air rather than relying on dissolved oxygen.
Unmoved, he places far less emphasis on compliance with the letter of his recommendations, and of the earlier Cadbury and Greenbury reports, than on firms' need to explain how they apply the principles in practice and to account for any discrepancies.
Earlier models, which tried to use water flow and plant growth to explain how the tiger bush got its stripes, failed to account for all but the simplest patterns.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into grooming, has asked the council to explain why opportunities to act were missed and how individuals responsible would be held to account.
It does not say what this other "review" was, nor explain the reasons for excluding the information from a report meant to be a comprehensive account of all the contact "agencies" had with Peter in the year up to his death.
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In the end, Mr. Kurlantzick's tendentious account of U.S. policy and actions is yet another example of developing a theory to explain history, then picking events and opinions mixed with facts to prove it.
Indeed, the need to expand abroad helps to explain why alliances have long been more common in Europe and Asia, which between them account for half the world's total, than in the United States, which now accounts for around a third.
He spins an extraordinary tale of great industrial wealth, compulsive acquisition of art, decorated with complicated sub-plots involving serial adultery and divorce. (His failure to decide whether this is industrial history, art history or good gossip must explain the meaningless title.) Thyssen had five wives, though Mr Litchfield's account of these marriages was at the mercy of Thyssen's memory, which was impaired by alcoholism and the arrogance of wealth.
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