Sentence examples for a rationalize that from inspiring English sources

Expending effort triggers what psychologists call "cognitive dissonance," a rationalize that occurs when individuals are coerced into voluntary action, causing them to perceive more enjoyment from activities than if they never had to make more effort.

Should we rationalize that criminality because the games are fun?

They can't rationalize that $150,000 for 20 hours even if they're millionaires.

Could all this talk be just so much bull-market revisionism, a rationalizing that seeks new arguments to justify ever-higher stock prices?

"If his daughter is able to be murdered like that and nothing structurally changes in black communities, then that's a type of waste that cannot be rationalized, that's a complete waste," he says.

We have rationalized that: ?The phenomenon of evolution is ongoing ?

And with the code so confusing, a taxpayer can rationalize that maybe a plan works, or that everybody else must be getting around the rules, too.

Only a government body could rationalize that increasing a tax on wealthy foreign buyers from 15%to20%0% will help affordable housing.

For example, if you happen upon your trusted fiancé embracing another, for an instant you may rationalize that the other person must be a relative, a friend, i.e., a non-threat to your relationship.

The authors describe the binding sites as being spheres with a 40 nm radius, and one could rationalize that in a clustering scenario these spheres would create a continuous larger binding site.

By comparing the retention behaviour of the helical peptides to a peptide of negligible secondary structure (a random coil), we rationalize that "temperature profiling" by RP-HPLC can monitor association of peptide molecules, either through oligomerization or aggregation, or monitor unfolding of α-helical peptides with increasing temperature.