Sentence examples for make it more rational from inspiring English sources

Some have tried to argue that Aristoxenus is refashioning Pythagoreanism in order to make it more rational (e.g., Kahn 2001, 70; Zhmud 2012b, 228), but Aristoxenus, in fact, recognizes the non-rational dimension of Pythagoreanism and Pythagoras' eating of kids and suckling pigs may itself have religious motivations (Huffman 2012b).

One part of him wants to enhance the workings of our government, to make it more rational, civil, effective, and non-partisan--bringing the country together.

In the early drafts of the script, there were "so many copies of people running around the place" which made the story too confusing, so Graham and the production crew worked to make it more rational.

Laboratory staffs are more often aware of the interaction of analytical technology and result interpretation than clinicians, making it more rational to involve the laboratory in the selection of point-of-care equipment, procedures, and therapeutic decisions based on the results.

As David Cutler pointed out in my recent video interview with him, reforming Medicare in order to make it more cost-effective and more rational in the kind of care it promotes is a crucial, if often overlooked, part of the health-care bill Congress is currently considering.

As David Cutler pointed out in my recent (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jamessurowiecki/2009/12/video-david-cutler.html) with him, reforming Medicare in order to make it more cost-effective and more rational in the kind of care it promotes is a crucial, if often overlooked, part of the health-care bill Congress is currently considering.

We are proposing several amendments to simplify the rule and make it a little more rational: there is no room for subsidiarity or for different national laws.

The above discussed diverse functions of lipids and more make it only rational and important to study the changes in the lipidome of a cell, organ or tissue to understand a disease phenomenon.

The model uses more appropriate mathematical forms and includes significant factors ignored previously by others which makes it not only more rational and accurate but also simpler than other existing models reported in the literature.

Some modern scholars are skeptical of Aristoxenus' testimony, seeing his denial that there was a prohibition on eating beans and his assertion that Pythagoras was not a vegetarian and particularly enjoyed eating young pigs and tender kids (Fr. 25 = Gellius IV 11), as attempts to make Pythagoreanism more rational than it was (Burkert 1972a, 107, 180).

Making it simpler and more rational will boost investment and create jobs.