There should be substantive reasons for collapsing categories (Bond and Fox, 2007), but the authors did not provide a rationale for this choice.
3) Provide greater methodological detail and justification for the analytic choices made, particularly with respect to the rationale for choosing eight states and collapsing across subjects.
Even if Silman's pros ensure that the reading room doesn't collapse, the whole rationale for the plan — the annual millions promised for acquisitions, librarians and so on — comes crashing to earth if the finances don't work out.
But NATO, which has no obvious rationale for its existence with the collapse of the Soviet Union two decades ago, is in deep trouble.
With the Soviet Union's having collapsed a decade previously, the rationale for maintaining America's (or Russia's) standing arsenals had all but disappeared.
Highly leveraged banks are more likely to collapse and to bring down the economy; avoiding this is the central rationale for capital requirements.
The rationale for the request is that should a key person suddenly die, the business would either collapse or be so crippled that it would have to take a huge step back to reboot and rebuild.
The official rationale for the water shut-downs – the Detroit Water Department's need to recoup millions – collapses on inspection.
He said part of the rationale for quickly razing the villa was to avoid any injuries to squatters taking up residence in a building at risk of collapsing because of structural damage from 12 antitank missile strikes.
