Sentence examples for more rational world from inspiring English sources

Her absence was a defining feature of the colder, more rational world that emerged in the Protestant north.

In a more rational world, of course, the ratification of New Start could have been done by unanimous consent.

In a more rational world, they would embrace -- and enlightened consumers would demand -- milk with a label that boasted, "A Proud Product of rBST-Supplemented Cows".

"Medea has this very potent connection to the gods, the dark arts, and that's not something we have an instant connection to, in our more rational world," she says.

You don't have to be a Protestant to argue for this sort of view; you could say, as many do, that the Reformation's real merit was that it reduced the importance of religion in general, and ushered in a more rational world.

It presents a more rational world, where people highly value long-term issues like health and safety.

Let's call the world we actually have now Reality A and the world that we might have had if 9/11 had never happened Reality B. Then we can't help but notice that the world of Reality B appears to be realer and more rational than the world of Reality A. To put itin different terms, we are living a world that has an even lower level of reality than the unreal world.

In a more just and rational world, the argument goes, the Mets would simply let Harvey sit on the bench for the rest of the season, precisely as Boras said they should (and as the Washington Nationals did with Stephen Strasburg, another Boras client, during their pennant drive in 2012).

Indiscriminate attacks on "religion," as if it were a single note to be demolished instead of a complex spectrum to be reformed, are a very real problem because they obscure what are, in my mind, much more important aims -- making the world a better, more rational place -- with a distracting, destructive and alienating narrative that doesn't account for differences in belief and practice.

Mr. Bush has now turned, he said, to "a more moderate approach, a more rational approach to democratization in the Arab world rather than the threat of force".

Green believes that in this way the world tends to become more rational and more harmonious.