So they've had practice in developing a rationalization: Democrats -- like Clinton and John Edwards -- have illicit sex, too!
[37] It is helpful to arrange the negative thought in one column and a rationalization in another column, so that you can confront and undo the negative thinking.
A comparison between the loop region harboring the T432, S431 and T426 sites in CII and the equivalent region in CI provides a rationalization for these differences.
It provided for improvements in royal administration, greater efficiency in the courts, and a rationalization of civil and criminal procedures in the interests of justice.
But that was a rationalization: in truth, I was simply too hungry to mess around.
They derided the rule of double effect in this context as a rationalization, a subtle cover-up, of what they called "slow euthanasia".
The method as stated was no more than a rationalization (in the Taylorian or Fordian sense) of the arrangements for clearing debris, keeping machines ready, and so on, and in fact it involved a large effort by a support team of de-emphasized assistants.
In the history of Western philosophy up to the 1970s, the topic of gender seldom arose, and when it did it was usually in the context of a rationalization of women's lower social status and their exclusion from public life.
Highly specialized scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) has been proven to generate very detailed chemical composition maps; it provides information on local aluminum content and its coordination in dealuminated zeolites, allowing a rationalization of catalytic performance.
Ramachandran traced the delusion to damage in the right superior parietal lobule, the body-map region, where the discrepancy between the absence of signals from the limb to the brain and the presence of the limb on the body results in a defensive rationalization that the arm or leg must be someone else's.
