That makes thinking about the market a rational exercise, rather than just a guessing exercise.
It should follow from a President's rational exercise of his authority.
As one 18th-century British consumer, Lady Caroline Lennox, put it, shopping was more than just instant gratification: it was a "rational exercise, a commitment to the civilizing powers of trade".
Public administration is not a politically neutral nor purely rational exercise.
In this 15-year survey of paintings and sculpture by Julie Small-Gamby, the title implies that her art-making is not a rational or intellectual exercise.
The exercise on P-drug selection has the objective of promoting rational use of medicines by students in their future career as doctors.
Like a vast biological individual, to them God was a conscious rational being, exercising providence over life and to whom we might approach in prayer.
While a "commitment to constitutional principles must not be a suicide pact," he said, "the rational and measured exercise of jurisprudence must be zealously sustained, even in time of war, including the war on terrorism".
The novels illustrate Murdoch's conviction that although human beings think they are free to exercise rational control over their lives and behaviour, they are actually at the mercy of the unconscious mind, the determining effects of society at large, and other, more inhuman, forces.
(See e.g., Feinberg 1985, Donnerstein et al. 1987, Dworkin 1985) This solution respects the freedom of rational agents to exercise their own rational capacities in deciding what to think and how to live.
Logos, in his view, is one of the numerous designations (epinoiai) which are conferred on the second person to define his relation, not to the Father (as "Son" and "Wisdom" do) but to his creatures (CommJohn 2.9.66 etc).: he is Logos as the paradigm and parent of all the logikai, or rational beings, who exercise reason only by participation in him.
