Sentence examples for rational methods from inspiring English sources

Pi slips away from all rational methods used to locate it.

This is one of the rational methods of encouraging the development of a low-carbon economy and of differentiating between more and less damaging forms of fossil fuels.

In 1837 the British Admiralty set up a committee to seek rational methods of ensuring the accuracy of compasses installed on iron ships.

Irrationalism found much in the life of the spirit and in human history that could not be dealt with by the rational methods of science.

It is not only easily available but also readily acceptable, and often preferred, to more rational methods of diagnosis and treatment.

The internal C.I.A. historian continues: It was not an aggressively simplistic solution, clandestinely arrived at, but was instead an official admission … that normal, rational methods of international communication and commerce had failed.

Incrementalism circumvents these problems, producing defensible policies where the rational method is paralyzed.

Yet to suggest itself as a rational method of communication, of infuriating readers into buying the magazine, was strange inverted Timestyle.

Although supposedly an example from mathematics of his rational method, La Géométrie was a technical treatise understandable independently of philosophy.

The two men independently developed a rational method, called activity analysis, for allocating resources so as to attain a given economic objective at the lowest cost.

Where these conditions are unmet (and they will be unmet, according to Lindblom, for most policy issues), the rational method provides no guidance whatsoever for policy makers.