But, the more they talked it over, the more they were able to rationalize the partnership.
This isn't simply a problem of disparate right-wing groups being able to rationalize their existence more easily.
"Now we'll be able to rationalize our lending policy, linking it to reciprocity, and participate in the design of major exhibitions".
It took Mr. Smeltzer years to admit his service because of the shame he felt for not being able to rationalize his actions.
"If the jury only convicts on this charge," he said, "it will be hard to say the government will be able to rationalize the tremendous time and resources it has spent on this case".
Somehow we are able to rationalize and justify in our minds the kind of treatment that Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen seized and shipped to his native Syria by the United States government, has suffered.
In 1986 Dr. Lifton wrote a well-regarded book called "The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide," which explored the twisted logic by which doctors were able to rationalize their participation in the Holocaust.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who is expected to sign the legislation, said yesterday that "we'll be able to rationalize the streets of the city, where right now it's a hodgepodge of unattractive things that disrupt the flow of people and don't provide as good a service as the public needs".
Our functional GPCR models are able to rationalize subtype selectivity and biased signaling.
The predicted binding modes were able to rationalize the experimental results in most cases.
