Ms. Lacy — friendly, energetic, looking far younger than her 67 years — delivered a persuasive rationale for her brand of public art, now known as "social practice".
As he evaluates the relevant considerations, he concludes that the only persuasive rationale for that measure includes as a crucial premise the claim that homosexual relations are contrary to a God-established natural order.
"It often happens," argues Michael Sandel, the Harvard political theorist, "that presidents, under the pressure of events, especially during war, find themselves needing to articulate new and more persuasive rationales for their policies -- especially when great sacrifices are involved.
White House officials may have thought it would be a persuasive rationale because Comey has come in for criticism from leaders of both political parties.
Until this point, the patient-provider interaction, - including delivering the persuasive rationale and the explanation of the importance of both groups – was similar for all participants.
In 2003, for example, an article by James Atlas in The Times described him and Mr. Kristol as neoconservatives who had felt that the Vietnam War had a "persuasive rationale".
For the neoconservatives who emerged out of the Vietnam era -- most notably Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer and Irving Kristol -- that war had what they felt was a persuasive rationale: the need to avoid the spread of Communism.
Nor is it a persuasive rationale, which can be readily expressed to scientists and the public alike.
[33] Our results were remarkably similar (59% for open-placebo; 35% for no-treatment control), suggesting that open-label placebo in the context of a persuasive rationale may show comparable efficacy to established IBS treatments.
Over the past few years the price of crude oil has advanced almost lockstep with the price of natural gas, and the advance in natural gas prices has served as a persuasive explanation and rationale for the extraordinary escalation in crude prices and in turn gasoline and refined petroleum products.
But his third and latest rationale for his plan is no more persuasive than the first two.
