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If you persuade enough people to be on time, it becomes rational for everyone else to be on time, too.
Once lots of other people have guns, it becomes rational for you to want your own too.The first time that I was posted to Washington, DC some years ago, the capital and suburbs endured a frightening few days at the hands of a pair of snipers, who took to killing people at random from a shooting position they had established in the boot of a car.
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Sovereignty, which is an anchor of statehood, might not have been overstepped, but what became rational for a small state like the Philippines was not so much to exercise force to defend its sovereign integrity, but to learn how to hedge in an international system where great powers dominate.
As firms are increasingly driven by normative, memetic and coercive pressures for the purpose of legitimacy seeking, the adoption of quality standards becomes rational myths for symbolic value only, not really for quality and efficiency improvements.
In situations in which finding the best alternative is prohibitively costly or impossible, for example, satisficing becomes rational.
In that case it could become rational and morally justifiable to test children for their genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes.
The overall effect of these discursive practices was that denying treatment to patients became reasonable and rational for an organisation even while it continued to espouse traditional NHS values.
Superstitions disappear; cultures grow more homogeneous; life becomes increasingly rational.
This has become a rational tactic for family activities.
In the latter circumstances, the rational actor may well become the rational fool [ 42].
It remains to be seen whether angpt-2 levels will function solely as an early marker of sepsis or whether the manipulation of the angpt/Tie-2 system will become a rational therapeutic target for the management of sepsis.
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