"The single-minded focus of Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff's marshalling city resources to plan West Side development," she wrote in explaining her rationale, "is a good, if unfortunate, example of the kind of focus possible and necessary for the Zero Waste plan to be successful".
But it's also too simplistic to say that it has unambiguously weakened her, in part because her rationale—"Wir schaffen das," or "We can handle it"—was an expression of the potential for action, rather than simple, open-armed humanitarianism.
Also, she was a Republican and changed parties a year and a half ago, which I thought was suspect, especially since she cited the war in Iraq as her rationale.
Whoever hacked the documents and whoever's releasing them - code-name FOIA 2011 - leaves an intriguing clue to his or her rationale, in a file released with the hacked material.
The participant was asked to explain his or her rationale in choosing an antibiotic agent and why other PCPs might choose nonrecommended antibiotics.
In her unprompted discussion of the rationale by which she accepts evolution, she mentioned several lines of evidence including "the fossil record," "similarities between organisms that are related to each other" and "DNA evidence" and gave clear descriptions of how these lines of evidence support her acceptance of evolution.
In a sense, Jooste's biographical rationale (she grew up in her parents' small hotel in Cape Town's docklands, not in a whites-only suburb) is strangely superfluous.
And then there was Stalin, providing a built-in rationale to continue to build a fighting force.
"We believe the intent of the management's response was to discourage and divide us," the committee wrote in explaining the rationale behind an in-person meeting.
Neither the administration's regular changes in rationale for being in Iraq nor its backing away from its fraudulent claims about Social Security can erase the lies.
