Sentence examples for rational definition from inspiring English sources

It wasn't just sloppy and messy and embarrassing and, by any rational definition of the word, not a sandwich.

Some of those methods were torture by any rational definition and many of them violate laws and treaties against abusive and degrading treatment.

Sound trial design also begins with a rational definition of trial arms and the expectations of what the trial is aiming to achieve.

Service life prediction must be used to estimate the duration of a building component and allows a more rational definition of the maintenance operations, reducing unnecessary costs.

By creating presences that elude rational definition, these artists restored to art its ancient aura of myth, mystery, and magic in an age that consistently disclaims their existence.

In a future release, however, API plans to replace these solutions with values based on a more rational definition of reference stress.

Rational definitions for micro and macro mixing are specified.

Both are rational definitions, but they produce very different strategies.

We do need to do careful conceptual work in order to provide a non-trivial definition of strength that is different from either the animal or rational definitions; but we also need to do careful empirical work in behavioral psychology in order to determine if people do, indeed, always act on the strongest of motives in the sense of strength that we develop.

Based on the rational prescribing definition of the World Health Organisation (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs338/en/), rational use of medicines requires that " patients receive medications appropriate to their clinical needs, in doses that meet their own individual requirements, for an adequate period of time, and at the lowest cost to them and their community".

Most recently, there has been a surge of interest to characterize functional and anatomical "connectomes" (Sporns et al. 2005; Van Essen and Ugurbil 2012); a method that could reliably parcellate the brains of individual subjects could drive rational node definition for the purposes of the analysis of large-scale brain networks (Wig et al. 2011).