Sentence examples for could be rationally from inspiring English sources

It would operate to maintain inequalities, but no more than those that could be rationally justified.

He kept on wondering how an economy could be rationally planned, without ever wondering whether it should be.

Such thinking was far from a combative 19th-century church's rough-hewn confidence that doctrines could be rationally demonstrated and aligned in an invincible theological system.

Elves and wizards can normally be relied on to supply enough magic and sparkle to transport the most prosaic viewer back to that place in his childhood where none of the things that happened could be rationally accounted for.

The Encyclopédistes the contributors to the great Encyclopédie edited by Denis Diderot (1713 84)—spread the idea that agricultural and manufacturing processes could be rationally analyzed and improved; the work also criticized religious and political orthodoxy.

And here we have a young man who had so much, the highest-paid quarterback, who threw it all away — and for what?" The question was rhetorical because the answer was nothing that could be rationally defended, much less reasonably explained.

A gene vaccine against HER2/ neu could be effective for patients with a HER2/ neu-expressing tumor but could not be rationally used to manage a HER2/ neu-negative tumor.

Besides, what could he be rationally raging about?

Beginning in England in the 17th century, "Whiggish" liberalism places its emphasis on individual freedom and the rule of law, whereas the later continental liberalism was a movement of the French Enlightenment representing "a demand for an emancipation from all prejudice and all beliefs which could not be rationally justified, and for an escape from the authority of 'priests and kings'".

Drawing on the work of Sapir, Darwin and various biological views of selection, they propose the concept of motivated selection which refers to "those regularities that could not be rationally explained away as random, and whose effects in a semantic ensemble appear to constitute a convergence of diverse resources towards some recognisable end" (p.51).

The same argument could also be rationally extended to promoting diversity on other dimensions as well.