Sentence examples for plausible rationales from inspiring English sources

Canellas, who was the firm's director of finance, said that he made numerous false accounting adjustments in order to keep the firm in compliance with its loan agreements, and that he and Joel Sanders, the firm's chief financial officer, discussed "plausible rationales" for the adjustments that would satisfy the auditors.

(Plausible rationales were cooked up to make each type of expectation seem believable).

And while it's difficult to pinpoint the cause(s) of low protester turnout, there are some plausible rationales.

It is time to turn away from retrospective and observational studies or meta-analysis and test the plausible rationales that have been put forth.

Each of these offices certainly has a plausible rationale.

Or, the Administration had better come up with a fresh & ideologically plausible rationale for continuing involvement there.

What adds to the awesomeness of the whole phenomenon is the absence of any halfway plausible rationale.

That was a problem, because for a majority of the Justices a simple dislike of gay sex was no longer a plausible rationale.

However, the issue of cost and state deficits was successfully leveraged to provide a superficially plausible rationale for the transition to workfare regimes.

And it may even be defended as appropriate -- auto insurers and car rental companies have a plausible rationale for treating young people differently, for instance.

Instead, they should confine themselves to examining the text of the order to determine if it was "facially legitimate" — if it was written in the right form, properly cited laws, and offered a plausible rationale, such as fighting terrorism.