Sentence examples for intelligible reason from inspiring English sources

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But recent letters to a number of Muslim organisations and individuals informing them, without any intelligible reason, that the bank no longer wants their business, raises questions about both claims.

It was a bizarre decision: the secure New World voluntarily joined the Old World slaughterhouse, consigning more than 117,000 Americans to death for no intelligible reason.

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As for addressing what has happened to America and the world since 1997, Haneke has arguably already responded creatively with his great 2005 masterpiece Hidden, in which a well-to-do couple is terrorised, but for intelligible reasons arising from race and empire.

George is exceptionally nimble when he spars with conventional contemporary political and social thought, so much so that it presents us with a puzzle: in ­natural-law terms, humans are rational beings who have "intelligible reasons... for their choices and actions".

Further, intelligible reasons may not be sufficient to justify a law in the sense specified in 2.1.

Intelligible reasons are those that members of the public can see as reasons for those who advance (or rely upon) them, as opposed to mere utterances, expressions of emotions, irrational demands or other irrelevant considerations.

Not all intelligible reasons will, by that very fact, be eligible to figure in a justification of some specific principle L. Some, for example, while intelligible, are not relevant, or at least do not seem to be the sort of reason that should count towards the justification for a law.

The universe is thus, in principle at least, perfectly intelligible to reason.

Thus, in contrast to the eternal, unchanging world intelligible through reason, the inconstant, changing world of everyday perceptual experience is in some sense not "real".

The pursuit of knowledge about the universe is definitionally integral to science (you can look it up!), and you are simply not a scientist if you don't embrace the assumption that the universe is intelligible to reasoned, evidence-based investigation.

In any case, the various dialects are all mutually intelligible, the main reason why linguists traditionally considered them a single language.

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