"But there is some good rationale behind why some of those actions were taken".
That's a good rationale for a deal and an infrastructure for the market.
He is concerned that, if asked to explain the break, he wouldn't be able to provide a good rationale.
In planning the latest studies, said Dr. Arthur Schatzkin, chief of the nutritional epidemiology branch at the cancer institute, "we had high expectations and good rationale".
As an immunologist who has a family member with Asperger's syndrome, I do not believe that this is a good rationale for exemption from vaccinations.
The only good rationale would be if [Antofagasta's copper mine] Los Pelambres really is at risk (in which case Teck would walk).
Dr. Nunes added: "What the study shows is that it doesn't seem to matter much what kind of treatment you get, as long as you get an approach with a good rationale.
The government is justified in classifying certain information regarding national security operations, but, in most cases, there is no good rationale for the classification of judicial interpretations of law.
At the same time, he said, he did not want to punish low-performing schools "if they had a good rationale as to why they were rolling over dollars, but still couldn't get an A, B or C".
Now, as then, people are accused of defending the indefensible — after all, there is no good rationale for the consumption of whiskey, although there are plenty of good occasions — and people on the other side are accused of misjudging what government can and should do.
There's really no good rationale for claiming otherwise.
