"The Republican party has rationalised that his guy is sane, that this guy should be president," he said.
Corsini has rationalised its range, so that it does not have to support too many product lines.
Hamas has rationalised that inviting a conflict, while potentially bloody, will see Israel struggle to defeat it.
And Hamas has rationalised, too, that when ordinary Gazans are suffering under Israeli bombs, they are more likely to support it.
Concentrating on the detail is equally part of how the 40-year-old, as all drivers must, has rationalised the dangers involved.
The Obama government has rationalised its failure to prosecute anyone (literally, anyone at all) for bubble-related crimes by saying that while much of Wall Street's behaviour was unwise or unethical, it wasn't illegal.
The governor of the central bank, Charles Soludo, has rationalised the ramshackle banking sector, reducing the number of banks from 89 to 25 and closing 15 of the dodgier ones altogether.
"It's likely the offender has normalised the sexual abuse of children, has rationalised it, minimised it for these females, and therefore the psychological barriers that had stopped those females abusing in the past were then eroded and they took the steps of abusing the children".
A recent approach to dietary manipulation has rationalised knowledge of the foods that commonly provoke IBS symptoms with an understanding of their chemical composition, namely the adoption of a diet low in FODMAPs (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols) [ 49].
What he found particularly depressing about all this was that the contented majority, having rationalised this state of affairs to its own satisfaction as representing the optimal and inevitable working of a benign economic system, was incapable of taking any remedial action.
