Sentence examples for had already rationalized from inspiring English sources

I had already rationalized that the loss of Blankie would be better for the boy: no humiliation at camp, no hiding Blankie in the bottom of sleeping bags during sleepovers.

As stated above, in the context of 17th-century absolutism, Louis XIV had already initiated many rationalizing reforms.

I was also very aware that I was opening myself up for a potential world of hurt and rejection, but I rationalized to myself that I had already been rejected and endured a lifetime of knowing that I had been given up for adoption.

The agency's analysts find that they are no longer helping to formulate policy; instead, their job is to rationalize decisions that have already been made.

Bourdieu suggested that scholarly attention to rules may be misplaced, noting that they are often used to explain behaviour rather than to direct it; in other words, people often invoke rules only in retrospect, to rationalize actions they have already taken.

The narrow substrate specificity of PuOMr for di- and polyamines was already rationalized by the suggestion of the presence of an 'anionic point' in the active site.

I've already written about how utopian ideologies motivate and rationalize atrocities, and how such acts arouse terror in our minds.

The implication for everyday thinking is that we often make a decision based on our feelings and then use our reason to rationalize the decisions our emotions have already arrived at.

"We have already compromised some of the agenda, and the leaders rationalize that by saying, 'This is the best we could do,' " complained Representative Raúl M. Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat who is co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

If you are rationalizing an outside intrigue, your ego has already caused you to cross a line.

Small fuel cycle development efforts are sometimes rationalized by stating that tritium processing technology has already been developed by nuclear weapons programs and these existing processes only need rescaling or engineering design to meet the needs of fusion fuel cycles.