Sentence examples for as a rational choice from inspiring English sources

Renault, however, sees its cars as a "rational choice" for getting around town.

"There's a whole philosophical history of looking at suicide as a rational choice," he said.

He presented his own regime as a rational choice between communism and Islamism, with occasional forays against the overseas Chinese business interests on whom he generally relied.

He presented his own regime as a rational choice between communism and Islamism, with occasional forays against overseas Chinese business interests.

Leeson is at pains to show the articles as a rational choice, enabling pirates to create a voluntary association that was stable and orderly.

Such is the momentum behind the peer that odds on his eventual premiership were slashed from 200-1 to 16-1 and he is now being openly touted as a rational choice to replace Mr Brown in the event of a Labour defeat at the general election next year.

Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, talks of EU membership as "still a rational choice" but complains, justifiably, about double standards and prejudices.

From there, we have developed the notion of economics as basically a rational choice theory, about how people make these rational choices.

This analysis presupposes that commuting represents what economists call a rational choice, as opposed to a constrained choice.

"Even though son-preference is not rational from the viewpoint of society as a whole, it is a rational choice for an individual," says Li. Chen's home lies near lush rice paddies, where farmers in wide-brimmed straw hats bend double.

"Why can't you believe that he simply objected to US foreign policy and that's why he did it?" In fact, I can and do believe that not only Tamerlan but Jahar as well could have made a rational choice – that is, a choice consistent with their values and their understanding of causal relationships – and, as a result of that choice, set off bombs that killed three people and injured at least 264.