In some respects this is a rationalisation for inaction on human rights.
However, it is also possible that this is a rationalisation for no longer being motivated to attend.
For The Practice plc, the closure of the Camden Road surgery was a rationalisation that followed its acquisition of the business from the American healthcare company UnitedHealth (UH), which had originally won the contract from the north London PCT.
What we're seeing is a rationalisation where the winners are emerging.
Emerging cutting-edge laser techniques can identify plastic types and segregate for reprocessing; but one has to question whether there should be an enforced rationalisation of permissible plastics or bioplastics so that the associated on-costs are not borne downstream.
These are enormous challenges and it will not be easy to get through this, and there will I think need to be a significant amount of rationalisation of debts and credits in the world before we are finally to emerge from the end of this".
The next step for large newspaper groups struggling to maintain profitability is an extensive rationalisation of the entire nation-wide structure of the industry.
The concept of shared value is good but I think it is a post-rationalisation of not getting in trouble with society.
Dresser predicted the price cuts, part of an initiative dubbed "project leaf" internally, would be the good news story on a day when the former Unilever executive is expected to announce a rationalisation of Tesco's 23 head offices as well as potential asset sales.
Almost half this sum is supposed to come from a rationalisation of the welfare bureaucracy, but the outcome is far from guaranteed.
At this point I was faintly aware of a romanticisation taking place, a rationalisation of what had been, in real terms, a pointless experiment.
