Sentence examples for may be rationalising from inspiring English sources

But (and I may be rationalising here) I found something presumptuous about the idea I could swoop in from my comfortable life and sort out these women's financial woes.

Torturing a victim to extract secret information may be rationalised, but if there is no obvious gain why cause gratuitous pain?

These features may be rationalised with the deliberate copying of a selection from larger blocks operated by copyists.

it has been claimed that certain preferences (at least in particular environments) may be rationalised as evolutionarily stable.

Treatment of fetal arrhythmias may be rationalised by fetal electrocardiography and magnetocardiography and by further defining the natural history of complete heart block and mechanisms of tachyarrhythmia.

This may be rationalised due to the Lewis basic nature of the hydroxyl groups, which serve to coordinate the incoming metal fragment, thus directing it to the same face of the diene.

Owing to the high dipole moment of nitromethane, the presence of O/O2 in the collision complex may be rationalised as a third body "forcing" the electron to remain in the dipole-bound state long enough for the molecule to adiabatically proceed into its anionic geometry, thereby allowing an intramolecular electron transfer into one of its valence orbitals (in the anionic geometry).

This may be rationalised in terms of a σ-hole being produced on only the least electronegative atom for heteronuclear dihalogens, and is consistent with experimental findings.

The 12th Five Year Plan recommends "in case a facility does not attract expected case-loads, the staff may be rationalised" ([ 74], p.35).

Some authors have suggested that a late role for CA, despite early uncoating, may be rationalised by partial CA uncoating in the cytoplasm.

More importantly, RB24 and its two derivatives (RB14, ZR08) induced irreversible inhibition of EGFR TK when tested alone, a protracted inhibition that may be rationalised in the light of recent data on the mechanism of irreversible acrylamide-based inhibitors.