Sentence examples for a rational standard from inspiring English sources

The love of guns, the identification of gun ownership with liberty — these are irrational beliefs, but a rational standard isn't what's at stake.

For example, Mr. Weinstein said, while a "rational standard" for describing the size of an apartment might seem to be to measure only the usable space in the apartment, that is not the measurement used in most listing agreements and sales advertisements.

This article introduces a rational standard for test reliability.

10 Updated results from last year confirmed that adjuvant chemoradiation (45 gray [Gy] radiation dose) remains a rational standard therapy for curatively resected gastric and esophagogastric junction cancer with primaries T3 or greater and/or positive nodes (n = 559 in the study), at least in the United States, where D2 resection is less common than in Europe or Japan.

It's still a mega hit by any rational standard, with a domestic gross at or around $400 million in the cards and a probable worldwide gross of at least $800 million on tap (it's already at $537 million worldwide at the moment).

"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay," a loosely strung-together collection of sex, race, and stoner jokes, is, by any rational standard, a terrible movie, yet I kept laughing at it, and I came out of the theatre in a good mood.

WE at the Jersey Column have often denounced the cult of youth soccer, which we believe encourages an unnatural, hands-free lifestyle and promotes a sport that by any rational standard is just plain boring.

By any rational standard, it's a terrible piece of work, yet its heart is in the right place.

Yes, by any rational standard, Street Fighter is a pretty lousy movie.

By any rational standard, I am disabled.

In fact, by 1990, he was not only at risk, he was, by any rational standard, hugely in the red.