Sentence examples for makes rational sense from inspiring English sources

(Albeit he conceded that while the decision to exit phone-making  makes "rational" sense for Nokia's business, it is "more emotionally complex" for a company that had become so synonymous with phones, at home and abroad).

Jefferies said: While this ruling makes rational sense, it comes as a surprise to the market.

Whether he always makes rational sense or not, he and Musar are proof that wine is more than a collection of aromas and flavors.

Yet if you were the kind of person for whom the sight of hundreds of huddled migrants in flimsy craft on the Mediterranean represents only a threat, it nevertheless makes rational sense to reduce the incentives to make such journeys.

He gives the following example: It makes rational sense for a rich man, but not for a pauper, to pay 9,000 ducats in exchange for a lottery ticket that yields a 50% chance at 20,000 ducats and a 50% chance at nothing.

I'm not sure why the billionaires should be applauded for investing where it makes rational sense.

Let's not leave Freud wriggling on that hook; ask, instead, does his proposition make rational sense?

It didn't make rational sense, and yet Frampton was willing to believe that every supermodel should be so lucky as to score a mate with his intellect.

Pioneering globetrotters snapped up the first RTWs because they represented a once-in-a-lifetime experience: because fares to everywhere were sky high, a big travel splurge made rational sense.

But it also made rational sense: the Russian state is Rotenberg's main client and source of wealth, so it would be far costlier to turn against Putin than to bear the burden of sanctions.

("In Domenic Recchia, the Democrats have fielded a candidate so dumb, ill-informed, evasive and inarticulate that voting for a thuggish Republican who could wind up in a prison jumpsuit starts to make rational sense," the Daily News observed in one of the most comically underwhelming endorsements ever published).