Sentence examples for attempted to rationalize from inspiring English sources

He attempted to rationalize the Knicks' struggles this season.

In short, Turgot attempted to rationalize the administrative practices of the French state and to individuate French social and economic life.

The kiosk program's designers had attempted to "rationalize" medical work by embedding a formal representation of triage practices in the kiosk's software.

While there was a model that attempted to rationalize the diverse growth modes observed in pulsed laser deposition of SRO on SrTiO3 (001) substrates, the existence of a highly polar surface of a Ti4+-terminated STO (111) surface may be another factor to avoid step flow mode [23, 24].

Fans of the series have attempted to rationalize MissingNo.

Meanwhile, those same prequels attempted to rationalize Darth Vader by showing how innocent young Anakin Skywalker became a homicidal cyborg, but Lucas far from the visionary he'd been when he first created Star Wars in 1977 bungled the transformation.

"The N.F.L. is attempting to rationalize its decision to keep vital medical information from the players by hiding behind a strict liability policy in its steroid program," said Peter R. Ginsberg, the lawyer for Kevin and Pat Williams.

As "Night Navigation" undulates between Del's point of view and Mark's, Howard lets their tense interactions and inability to communicate propel the novel, never attempting to rationalize their problems or forcing them to succumb to psychoanalytic clichés.

Without resorting to psychobabble or attempting to rationalize his own behavior, Lopate makes clear the connection between his confusion at being an unwilling witness to his father's violence toward his mother and the punches he finds himself bewildered to unleash, as an adolescent, on a younger neighbor he has been hired to tutor.

The protagonist is a forty-two-year-old Los Angeles private detective named Nick Petrov, who, at first unknowingly, suffers from a form of brain cancer ("glioblastoma multiform") whose symptoms he attempts to rationalize or conflate with the progress of his current investigation.

As with the responses to so many others who express similarly unsavory views — most recently the cattle farmer Cliven Bundy, who wondered if folks like me weren't better off during slavery — nothing that I can decipher addresses their deeply held positions, or the divisions and inequalities they attempt to rationalize.