“The convenient rationalization that our weapons potpourri will confuse the enemy into fear of misbehaving is absurd and threatening.”

“What was the rationalization behind Giorgio's conclusion that the pyramids were constructed by ancient aliens?”

“The network of stores operating through license agreement also underwent a rationalization process.”

“His characteristic approach is to explain in very great detail, and with great rationality and infinite patience.”

“What is the rationality behind your current financial goals?”

“We must approach this sensitive issue with a fair amount of rationality.”

“The rationale behind Early Intervention was no more than blindingly obvious common sense.”

“This provides a rationale for a hypothesis respecting adstrate development in the area.”

“The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.”

“The rationale behind Early Intervention was no more than blindingly obvious common sense.”

“This provides a rationale for a hypothesis respecting adstrate development in the area.”

“The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.”

“The bail out comes with conditions relating to restructuring and rationalisation and follows two reports on the theatre.”

“The Government has accepted the need for rationalisation of the dairy processing sector, Agriculture and Food Minister Joe Walsh has said.”

“He said it would further the rationalisation of the dairy processing industry in Ireland and lead to cost savings through greater efficiencies.”

“The parliament, who had by this time obtained a good deal of the rationalness of republican principles, paid no attention to these scruples.”

“And what difference is there between the credibleness and rationalness of any of these wonders and the credibleness and rationalness of Papal infallibility?”

“He is a first-class rationalizer, a casuist of rare accomplishment, and a truly gifted procrastinator.”

“Fuller, the hired rationalizer for the Northern Virginia big shots, was on hand for the Cato panel.”

“Discussions on other asset divestitures and business rationalisations are ongoing.”

“His supporters point to what they consider to be a moral clarity that has ended a lengthy period of fudges and rationalisations on crucial issues such as terrorism.”

“Whatever rationalisations we give ourselves, we may justify our role as Instrument of Betrayal by devaluing the importance of the already existing bond.”

“We have an innate tendency to avoid pain, and therefore we are apt to conjure up rationalizations that justify our behavior.”

“They'll bounce right back with excuses, rationalizations, and inane explanations of powers that weren't there in the first place.”

“Rand cuckolded her do-nothing spouse in front of his face and with long, tedious rationalizations with which she forced him to agree.”

“But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.”

“Don't go calling one of those brutal lifestyle rationalisers who will insist you throw out anything you haven't worn for a year, or going on a panic-induced spending spree.”

“For their part, rationalizers preferred minimal requirements to optimal ones.”

“It could have been invented for some other purpose, and then commandeered by the rationalizers of slavery.”

“On these and many other questions, rationalizers changed their minds.”

“The purpose of Gould's effervescent new book is to eulogise the distinctive rationalities of story-telling and other non-scientific ways of thinking.”

“Given the relative success of the scientific enterprise it would seem that particular rather universal rationalities have been selected for.”

“I examine the concept of evidence and Lin's competing rationalities within the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.”

“There may be rationales for such beliefs, but the weight of the evidence I've seen does not convince me.”

“Yet, in that familiar paradox Freud makes his own, our drives have their own ineluctable logics and rationales.”

“At our meeting, Mr. Hansen presented a number of rationales in defence of the proposed increase in holding capacity.”

“Eudoxus said, in effect, that a point on the line is uniquely determined by its position among the rationals.”

“Topics follow the order of whole numbers, fractions, integers, rationals, and reals.”

“Each continuous function from the real line to the rationals is constant, since the rationals are totally disconnected.”