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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rationalise" is not correct in English.
Did you mean "a rationalization"? You can use "a rationalization" when referring to the act of attempting to explain or justify behavior or decisions, often in a way that is not entirely logical.
Example: "His decision to leave the company was met with a rationalization that it was for personal growth, despite the real reasons being quite different."
Alternatives: "an explanation" or "a justification".
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America said it would consider "the broad range of options".The British, French and German governments told European aerospace and defence-electronics companies to come up with a "rationalise or die" plan in order to compete better with America's defence industries, which have restructured radically since the end of the cold war.
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Nor is it by any means certain to happen, despite the advantages of a rationalised system greater efficiency and lower requirements for collateral from its users.
But as was the case with former presidents Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, it's been clear that a rationalising of Irish-English relationships has been high on President Higgins's agenda.
… due to its substantial citizen engagement and the way in which the independence referendum has been managed democratically by both sides, this case demonstrates very good practices efficient governance, social media usage and a rationalised dialectic.
But land with the rest of the bunch in a "vmbo" (vocational education) school, and your chances of making it to university are slim.Like many an apparently archaic and arbitrary institution, the Citotoets began its life as a rationalising reform.
Susan Wendell, a Canadian sociologist with chronic fatigue syndrome, writes that this kind of thinking "may be part of a rationalising rejection of one's former, healthy self, in order to adjust to a new body and a new way of life".
They also downgraded the importance of sexuality to their wellbeing, which might reflect a rationalising adjustment to the lack of an available sexual partner.
In an attempt to rationalise a situation in which a researcher would end up having a string of 5-year contracts, the 12-year rule--15 years in medicine--capped the time period that a university (or publicly funded research institute) is allowed to hire using temporary contracts.
His vision of a democratic Middle East is an afterthought to rationalise a war he long ago determined to fight.
And not only is it, in a certain sense, coherent, but it constitutes, in effect, an attempt to rationalise an otherwise seemingly absurd state of affairs.
But at least she is battling on the right side.The important thing is that Ms Rousseff should see these tussles as the first round in a lengthy campaign to rationalise a baroque state and strip away the handicaps that hinder Brazilian firms from competing.
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