Once the F.B.I. learned the truth — that it was just about sex — it needed a high-minded rationale to keep snooping.
I have no doubt that Mr. Landesman, a journalist and novelist who adapted the story from Vincent Bugliosi's 2008 book, "Four Days in November," had a high-minded rationale.
Shewmon's inquiry has led him from the higher-brain rationale through the whole-brain rationale to his current position: a strong conviction that brain death, while a severe disability, even severe enough to warrant discontinuing life support, is not truly death.
The high-minded rationale for commercial-litigation finance is that it improves the workings of the legal system by increasing access to justice (although only for those who have something to exchange for the funding. It rarely helps the nearly half of the American population who lack access to justice because they can't afford a lawyer).
This is the high-concept rationale for blind blogging.
My guess is Mr. Parsons went to Africa to shoot an elephant, and perhaps some other creatures, and then tried to find some high-sounding rationale for his gambit.
Although the selection of genes in this study has a high theoretic rationale, the complexity of the human genome suggests there may well be other genes and SNPs involved in cachexia.
5) A systematic search and evaluation of evidence Conformance with evidence would require expert judgment The quality of decisions should be higher because rationales are required, there is less scope for decisions to be based on considerations other than the available evidence e.g. lobbying and political pressure, though lobbying will still occur.
What Oxford did, with its Hellenistic sense of human existence, was to provide some high-sounding rationales for upper-class frivolity.
The first is entirely absent from Prof. Christ's discussion, which offers only an economic rationale — higher future earnings.
Mr. Sadler contends that the personal costs of running for office are too high for that rationale, and he's trying to make the case for why a Democrat can win here.
