Since last fall, Mr. Obama's antimissile goals have expanded to include not only countering Iranian missiles, but creating a rationale for deep cuts in the nation's nuclear arsenal and ultimately for prompting foes to abandon their missile programs.
"China's leaders are consistently asked what their position is and whether or not they can help, and it puts them in an awkward position … It could be that over time it creates a rationale for a new foreign policy – that they decide they have to be more active and more willing to take the initiative," said Taylor Fravel of the security studies programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Nevertheless, all the great despots of the past have seized upon a single happening or mistake to create a rationale for going to war and Mr. Lamborn has acted in that tradition.
Similar analyses have been conducted to create a rationale for choosing measures for pay-for-performance programs or for prioritizing quality improvement initiatives [ 55- 57].
The above observations would create a rationale for future evaluation of cabozantinib in earlier stages of prostate cancer, such as in the adjuvant setting for high-risk disease or hormone-sensitive disease.
A few studies have found that facility interventions providing routine ANC have minimal beneficial effects to maternal health outcomes, creating a rationale for community-based interventions for pregnant women where educational and support programmes have been successful in increasing/improving skilled delivery, breastfeeding practices and postnatal attendance [ 9- 12].
In addition to on-screen television guides, Gemstar also operates a patented system for publishing and reading electronic books, creating a potential rationale for a deal if reading books on the screen of a hand-held appliance ever becomes popular.
These developments create a strong rationale for the evidence movement to expand its focus to state and local leaders, not just federal, and that would be a positive development in itself.
This creates a strong rationale for the argument that before we continue to apply the RIPLS we need to know more about the "bigger questions" ([ 37] p.141) we are hoping to address with this instrument.
Taken together, all these programs not only expanded government unimaginably but also created a comprehensive new rationale for it, very different from the Founding Fathers' political philosophy.
