Sentence examples for Rationalizing from inspiring English sources

He could not regard love merely as the gratification of lust, a matter of appetite rather than of feeling, but he was equally averse to "rationalizing" love.

Bentham thought men far more reasonable and calculating than they are and brushed aside all the Christian and humanist ideas rationalizing instinctive loyalty and awe.

Resistance and flight were made possible by Peter's failure, despite all his modernizing and rationalizing, to endow the government with effective means of control on the local level.

According to the Brahmanic sources, they originated from intercaste marriages, but this is clearly an attempt at rationalizing their rank in the hierarchy.

Though the Taylor system provoked resentment and opposition from labour when carried to extremes, its value in rationalizing production was indisputable and its impact on the development of mass-production techniques immense.

This obsession spawns an ideology that explains everything in terms of the goal, rationalizing all obstacles that may arise and all forces that may contend with the state.

Apple CEO Tim Cook set in motion an unprecedented backlash against Indiana's Religious Freedom and Restoration Act on Sunday, calling out the "nearly 100 bills" nationwide he said were designed to "rationalize injustice".

In particular, in the absence of viable pooling mechanisms outside the employment setting in the U.S., the exclusion can be rationalized as the "glue" that holds employer pools together.

It'd be the same old stuff, but we'd find a way to rationalize it, and it'd be all geared towards pissing off Mideast oil interests, rather than the Chinese.In other words, we'd use the auspice of "green" to renurture our manufacturing industry with the helping hand of the government.

The mental event that explains an action by rationalizing it is a cause of that action otherwise, as discussed above (§2.2), there would be no way of answering the question concerning which of the many mental events that rationalize some action are the ones that actually explain its occurrence (see further the supplement on Explanatory Epiphenomenalism).

The dichotomy also rationalizes oppressive class divisions.