Sentence examples for rational measure from inspiring English sources

Mr. Taffet said, "By any rational measure, we've had a successful first year".

Rich-country farm subsidies and tariffs are outrageous by any rational measure.

"We strongly believe that the decision to expel Jack Montague was wrong, unfairly determined, arbitrary, and excessive by any rational measure," said Stern.

In any ordinary election year, by any rational measure, you would say that Hillary Clinton trounced Donald Trump in their first debate.

And yet, for all our shared sense that something was wrong with electric bikes, we agreed that, by any rational measure, they are a force for good.

A more rational measure, called the material footprint, includes all the raw materials an economy uses, wherever they happen to be extracted.

By all rational measures, they are a nuisance.

We certainly feel for them but our response must be rational, measured and proportionate.

As the new season approached, the pessimism of VfB Stuttgart fans was palpable and, by most rational measures, justified.

You had to wonder what Vine's callers made of this rational, measured and ultimately subjective discussion.

In his view, zealots on both sides stoked an inferno of mistrust, as "each section's rational measures of self-defense looked to the other like mad provocations".