He had a rationale for the prosecco: it seemed more egalitarian than champagne, and less likely to cause hangovers.
But as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. pointed out, the Federal Circuit had a rationale for adding its distinctive gloss to the concept of obviousness.
Candidates don't have a rationale for attacking her directly, except to claim that the agency would improve if they were elected.
From 10-year-old boys to 43-year-old doctors to gift-giving girlfriends, each future Madden 10 owner had a rationale for braving the cool summer night, be it a sentimental tie to the game or a competitive edge.
"My mom never turned around, never reacted in any way, and my dad turned to me, didn't miss a beat and said, 'Whatever happened to the metric system?' " It was drummed into him as a human-sexuality master's student, Vernacchio said, to never be explicit merely for the sake of being explicit: have a rationale for every last thing you say.
Beyond the electoral focus, Altman also had a rationale for his initial concentration on the state of California.
The defendant, the state of Virginia, argued that marriage laws are traditionally under the control of states and it had a rationale for treating interracial marriages different from other marriages because some studies found that children of interracial couples suffered intellectually and emotionally and the Bible clearly revealed God's intention to separate the races.
Thus, we now have a rationale for explaining how the switching mechanism present in an oligopeptide TEGT mixed SAM can control binding capacity on the surface.
Rifampin thus serves as an important benchmark: it has efficacy against persistent M. tuberculosis, so any strategy that does not have a rationale for a shorter therapy should not make the list of new targets.
It should be easy and simple to measure, should be consistent in repetitive measurement, have a rationale for its use, present threshold values that are well documented, be correlated with the presence of illness and with its severity, have a reasonable cost, and finally be measurable in biological fluids that are easily achievable.
