Sentence examples for had rationalized from inspiring English sources

Ai Dan told me that their father never gave up his faith in the Party, and I asked how he had rationalized his suffering.

He said yesterday that his change of heart had come after seven or eight meetings with the government, and after "I had rationalized everything that had gone on".

They had rationalized the ball and bat games of preindustrial society and endowed the resulting amalgam with the language of modernism emphasizing order, science, and manliness.

He said that he took EPO, but "not a lot," and that he had rationalized his use of testosterone because one of his testicles had been removed during his battle against cancer.

They lived in the city where Irving Thalberg was enshrined; Thalberg, the saint of M-G-M, had rationalized Mayer's system of putting teams of writers to work simultaneously and in relays on the same project.

In their paper "Negotiating White Power Activist Stigma," published in the journal Social Problems, in 2009, Simi and Futrell quoted a white supremacist in Southern California who had rationalized the banal necessity of making a living: "A pure white homeland is not going to happen in a big shoot-out tomorrow afternoon.

"The company has rationalized its portfolio.

They've rationalized becoming stupid & watching television.

"People have rationalized that they need these big cars," Ms. Gates said.

This, I have rationalized, is why M.M.A. is really safer than boxing.

Mr. Gates and Mr. Obama — the president seemed concerned about these circumstances during his election campaign — now appear to have rationalized them.