The phrase "able to rationalize the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the capacity to explain or justify something logically or reasonably.
Example: "She was able to rationalize the decision to move forward with the project despite the risks involved."
Alternatives: "capable of justifying the" or "able to explain the".
But, the more they talked it over, the more they were able to rationalize the partnership.
The predicted binding modes were able to rationalize the experimental results in most cases.
This model is able to rationalize the dependency of stress overshoot on relaxation time.
A switch from mechanism II toward mechanism I is able to rationalize the correspondingly observed loss of chemoselectivity.
"If the jury only convicts on this charge," he said, "it will be hard to say the government will be able to rationalize the tremendous time and resources it has spent on this case".
Based on previous experimental evidence, it is postulated that GPB zones rather than solute clusters may be able to rationalize the rapid hardening in the Al Cu Mg alloys.
"Brauman was able to rationalize both the gas phase and the solution behavior -- and he put them on a much more substantial footing," Zare said.
"Here's this information about how we can help the environment, and kids are not able to rationalize it away the way that adults do".
We've had to evolve from what was basically threat-based planning that is, planning against a particular identified threat and being able to rationalize and optimize the response to it to capabilities-based planning, where we need to have capabilities that will be able to respond to this very wide dynamic range in the threat we're facing.
"The embezzlers were subsequently able to rationalize their acts on the basis that other people in business were doing similar things," the professors wrote.
In 1986 Dr. Lifton wrote a well-regarded book called "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide," which explored the twisted logic by which doctors were able to rationalize their participation in the Holocaust.
