But the excitement among Democratic voters about Senator Barack Obama and the emergence of Mr. McCain as the Republican nominee — both of whom promote nonpartisan approaches — undercut the Bloomberg rationale for running.
An important Administration rationale for loosening export controls was the argument that easing them was the only way American computer makers could compete against widely available foreign-made technology.
By persuading the court to reject a Commerce Clause rationale for a president's signature act, the conservative legal insurgency against Obamacare has won a huge victory for the long haul.
-- The ISA understands the USG rationale for providing certain types of equipment to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF), but will approve transfer requests on a case-by-case basis, depending on the capabilities of the equipment, and how the PASF intend to use them.
This article critiques the Pure Choice rationale for state-supported PNS by comparing it with a possible alternative, Public Health Pluralism.
According to the relevance condition of AFR, rationales for priority-setting decisions should aim to provide reasonable explanation of why they were taken.
"Market Failure and Energy Policy: A Rationale for Selective Conservation". Energy Policy, Vol. 17 (August , 1989, pp. 397-406.
For TWC, the rationale for the Dodgers deal is similar to the rationale for the Lakers deal: pay a lot to cut out the middle man, and secure access to a popular team for decades, at a predetermined price.
For the longer term, Sony's rationale for buying CBS records and Columbia was to reap gains from the "snergy" between entertainment software (records or movies) and electronic hardware.
Part of Toyota's rationale for announcing its DSRC plans now is the hope that it can convince other manufacturers to get off the fence and deploy as well.
Michael A. Cusumano, who has written several books about the software industry and about Microsoft, is not impressed with Microsoft's rationale for its Yahoo offer.
