Sentence examples for irrational given from inspiring English sources

Precisely this idea was used in the first proof that π is irrational, given by Johann Lambert in 1767.

Besides, it's delicious watching Republicans go after Democrats for being too emotional and irrational given the G.O.P. shame spiral.

David Foster Wallace hated to fly, and claimed his fear was far from irrational, given that "a definite percentage of commercial airliners crash every year".

The logic is ridiculous: You could just as easily say that robbing banks is economically irrational, given the risks involved, and therefore it does not happen.

Witnesses before the committee described their extreme frustration at these decisions, which they described as "irrational" given the current focus on reducing demand.

Numerous pundits have already pegged the jump in the stock as mystifying and irrational, given the fact that having to raise $34 billion hardly looks like a sign that Bank of America is healthy.

"Being afraid of highway driving, or driving itself, is certainly not an irrational fear, given that for most people, driving in general is the riskiest thing they'll probably do in their life," said Tom Vanderbilt, author of the new book, "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do" (Knopf).

However, these temporary increases are set to expire on April 10th and have left Brennan saying that "removing the surcharge and reducing our prices is an irrational outcome," given their financial conditions.

Women who stood up to protest the way she was talked about and treated were dismissed based on many of those same beliefs: women are irrational and given to emotional overstatement.

Provision of LLINs and their effective use would complement the effort as IPT in schools [ 59, 60] could be irrational today given the cost of the new malaria drug compounds and the need to prevent rapid emergence of resistance resulting from drug abuse.

The consensus was that his ideas, and his technique of confronting clients with their irrational thoughts, gave birth to the cognitive-behavioral approach that dominates psychotherapy today.