Sentence examples for partly rational from inspiring English sources

Genetic manipulation has been busy producing useless or noxious monsters such as green rabbits, rakunks, and partly rational pigs.

The decision-making process had been only "partly rational" in the cases of the Tours-Bordeaux line, which is due to open in 2017 at an estimated cost of €8.8bn (£6.9Bordeauxdeaux to Toulouse and Poitiers to Limoges.

"There's a growing amount of work that suggests that people are only partly rational," he notes.

Explication is a necessary precondition to discovery, and it consists in a partly empirical, partly rational process.

The first stage in creation is that God imparts his own intelligence and reason to the pre-cosmic non-rational soul, making it into a partly rational thing (De an. procr.

We'd all be better off if we saw ourselves as we are - intermittently and only ever partly-rational creatures, who never really grow up.

The subjects might still be basing their choices partly on rational considerations.

Reflective experience is mediated, rational, partly analytical.

The modern state is partly founded on rational principles and is given shape by bureaucratic hierarchies and evolving canons of law.

This is hitting small firms particularly hard.Banks' cosy relationships with business have kept many inefficient firms alive for too long; today's tighter credit partly reflects more rational behaviour.

The novel was established as a major art form in English literature partly by a rational realism shown in the works of Henry Fielding, Daniel Defoe, and Tobias Smollett and partly by the psychological probing of the novels of Samuel Richardson and of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.