That depends, in part, on whether you begin from the premise that financial markets are efficient, or that they are inherently prone to irrational behaviour and speculative excess.The rationale behind financial deregulation was that freer markets produced a superior outcome.
Some, I suppose, prefer a bit more rationale in their complete irrational purchases – thus the existence of this $3.2 million dollar iPhone.
No doubt, those who support coercive laws that require a religious rationale might do so in an insular, intransigent, irrational, or otherwise defective manner.
It is important to listen to a teen's opinions and rationale, even when what she is saying sounds irrational.
Egeus's demand – irrational in its Athenian context – could, here, have a plausible, anticolonial rationale.
The first session will focus on the rationale of cognitive behavioral therapy, i.e. the influence of (irrational or dysfunctional) cognitions and attitudes on (restrictive) feelings and behaviors.
The American people wholeheartedly support our troops who were mistakenly sent there, but not the initial or continuing irrational reasons for their being there, nor Mr. Bush's unreasonable, stubborn and mistaken stay-the-course rationale for keeping them there.
Moreover, officials acknowledge that the summit meeting has helped fuel some doubts over much of the rationale for a missile defense, which is that the North Korean government was so irrational and unpredictable that it would not respond to normal threats of deterrence.
Not feminist - based on robust rationale and action - but female in the traditional sense which the feminists set out to change: compliant, irrational, emotionally simplistic.
