"Arafat is trying to win over his people, all his people, including those who are against the agreement," the minister explained.

Still, the Council demanded that ministers explain a catalogue of abuses.

The minister explained that the 2009 gas consumption in the country will decrease by 5.4pc.

The prime minister was explaining something to them, but Nirgal could barely follow, his head hurt so.

As the prime minister at the time explained, "Human life is weightier than the earth."

A senior minister explained that the Hungarian government was prepared to consider changing its controversial shake-up of the country's central bank.

He recalled that one time a large church group arrived in buses, and the minister explained that the artist was a black man.

In the old days, the minister would have listened politely and explained that rules are rules.

European ministers explained their own policy proposals to revive growth.

The minister explained that this kind of frontal approach was the wrong way to go about it with God.