Complaints that the renewables industry gets inadequate support in the U.S. are untrue, and rationalization for that support because of the minor subsidies for oil and gas (in the U.S). are at best disingenuous.
On the other hand, someone more progressive, and lacking rationalizations for injustice and inequality might question why they exist and why they persist — and keep questioning, even as the answers become more challenging — rather than simply accepting that they exist and that they persist because they ought to.
In his speeches to the faithful, his language is laced with hostility toward Israel and the United States, and with rationalizations for suicide bombings.
The first ads featured football players and celebrities saying "No more" to the excuses and rationalizations offered for domestic abuse and sexual violence.
At the same time, a massive deregulation of business provided new opportunities, incentives, and even rationalizations for white-collar crime--and helped cause the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.
He's not one of those all-too-common founders who puffs up his chest and gives rationalizations for why everything is great even as user numbers are sliding or a competitor is stealing momentum.
After countless hours on Facebook, innumerable desperate calls home for money, and several rationalizations for eating at Taco Bell, the Fall semester of 2010 is finally coming to close.
Indeed, in the above circumstances, the categorization of ones' own behaviour is less malleable and finding rationalizations for deception is much harder [6].
The BADDS was developed in previous studies by the authors and assesses respondents' rationalizations for drinking and driving, likelihood of future drinking and driving, drinking and driving behaviors, and riding with a drinking driver behavior in the previous month.
