Sentence examples for act irrationally from inspiring English sources

Some people, in extremis, act irrationally.

I don't mean simply that people sometimes act irrationally.

"Just because they're state actors doesn't mean they might not act irrationally," he said.

Like much of the half-reformed economy, the cotton sector is wont to act irrationally.

Justice David H. Souter told Mr. Taylor that the instruction in effect told the jury, "You may act irrationally".

RATIONAL-market theories have their detractors, in part because they necessarily simplify the financial world and ignore investors' manifest tendency to act irrationally.

It cannot be said that he acted irrationally".

"The jury would not have acted irrationally had it drawn the inference that the e-mails were fakes," Judge McMahon wrote.

In his decision Justice Sherwood said the Council and the Planning Commission had not acted irrationally or arbitrarily, as the petitioners had charged.

"To invalidate the people's vote, the plaintiffs have a really tough burden: they have to prove the people acted irrationally," Mr. Pugno said.

Last week, Carl C. Icahn, the activist investor, mounted a proxy contest to replace Yahoo's entire board, saying the directors had "acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders".