Sentence examples for rational given from inspiring English sources

And in a sense, it is rational, given the dearth of alternatives.

Her sense of paranoia sounds either irrational or entirely rational, given that she operated at the highest ranks of Chinese politics, which Reuters calls "a world of infighting and suspicion," characterized by "repeated corruption probes, phone tapping and worries about betrayal".

It is totally rational, given the unprecedented demand.

Although two-boxing is not the act of a maximally rational agent, it is rational given the circumstances of Newcomb's problem.

The parties' deliberations are confined to discussing and agreeing upon the conception that each finds most rational, given their specified interests.

If, for example, a utilitarian claims that I have most reason to give to charity, since that maximizes the general happiness, I could object that giving to charity cannot be rational given my particular preferences, which are for things other than the general happiness.

And the same is true here: Plenty of Boehner's members were being savvy and rational, give their own interests, but for that matter so were plenty of the people involved in the Salem Witch Trials.

I did discover that she was completely resistant to rational give-and-take.

Atakut and Ispir [15] defined the bivariate real Bernstein-type rational functions of the Bernstein-type rational functions given by Balázs in [12] and proved the approximation theorems for these functions.

British settlers in North America were influenced partly by the traditions of the Puritan revolution and the ideas of Locke and partly by the new rational interpretation given to English liberty by contemporary French philosophers.

GGA+U approximation are rational when given a reasonable U, but the U which reproduce a reasonable band gap often yield a significant error in describing other properties such as lattice constant or magnetic moment.