It was getting on 11 o'clock and all my rationalizations — for example, that people needed time to get home from work, eat dinner, relax a bit — were wearing out.
The story of Supreme Court decisions, for example, is basically extreme intellectual rationalization of gut reactions.
Sidgwick would point out that if it is bad to hide the truth, because 'Government House' types, for example, typically engage in self-deceptive rationalizations of their policies (which seems entirely plausible), then one shouldn't do it.
Trump and his advisers have offered various tortured rationalizations for the firing of Comey initially, for example, on the ground that Comey had been unfair to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Trump and his advisers have offered various tortured rationalizations for the firing of Comey — initially, for example, on the ground that Comey had been unfair to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
Non-stochastic mathematical models may be purely qualitative (for example, models involved in some aspect of social choice theory) or quantitative (involving rationalization of financial variables, for example with hyperbolic coordinates, and/or specific forms of functional relationships between variables).
For example, clinicians' judgments of "low harm" associated with others' behaviors may result from post-hoc rationalizations of their own failures to speak up rather than from concurrent risk assessments.
Rationalizations of the failure revolved around timing and market window problems (see Table 4 for example quotations).
The question which remains to be analysed definitively is whether migrant entrepreneurs confirm the ambivalences of modernity (based on the processes of individualization, rationalization and differentiation) or do they overcome them by initiating an inverse process (de-differentiation processes for example) through their specific embeddedness in the life-worlds?
