Sentence examples for principal rationale from inspiring English sources

It is also a principal rationale for many of the Fed's unprecedented lending and money-creation activities.

Until Romney picked Ryan, the principal rationale for his candidacy had been that he was a practical businessman who could appeal to independents and get the economy moving.

According to one participant in the briefing, who is still on active duty and not authorized to speak on the record, Chiarelli put forth what would be the principal rationale for the surge that eventually began last February.

Two months after the fall of Baghdad, the third fight is well underway, now that the principal rationale cited by President Bush and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell for war with Iraq -- that Saddam Hussein's possession of chemical and biological weapons posed an imminent threat -- remains clouded by doubt.

His favorable standing, sustained for almost the entire six years since he came to office, has slumped since the war with the failure to discover unconventional weapons -- his principal rationale for taking military action -- and with suspicions that his government manipulated intelligence information to exaggerate the threat.

The suspicion that the government might have misled the public and the continuing failure to find any banned weapons in Iraq -- Britain's principal rationale for sending its troops there -- have caused Mr. Blair's popularity to plummet to the lowest point since he came to office six years ago.

The principal rationales for the invasion — the assertions that led many reluctant liberals to sanction it — turned out to be false.

(On the other hand, what else is there?) All along, one of the Tribunal's principal rationales in the eyes of its proponents was its potential educative function.

"One of the principal — if not the principal — rationales was, the library needed to do this to get the money to continue the research function at 42d Street.

Rocco Iossa, the New Jersey manager of the Bush campaign, said there were two principal rationales: to humiliate Steve Forbes in his home state and chase him from the presidential race as quickly as possible, and to save money by running advertisements in the overlapping New York-New Jersey media market that were aimed at voters in both states at the same time.

The principal rationales advanced over the years are three: to deter crime, to reform criminals and to keep them off the streets.