By 2003, the rationale had changed again: the administration argued that reducing taxes on dividend income, the core of its plan, would improve incentives and hence long-run growth -- that is, it had turned to a supply-side argument.
In practice, a stroke of the president's pen is all that is required.Over the years the official rationale for nationalisation has changed.
The conservative rationale for death panels has changed over time -- first focusing on a provision allowing Medicare to cover end-of-life counseling by physicians (which was eventually abandoned by the Obama administration) and then shifting attention to IPAB.
Clausewitz may be able to provide a rationale for war today, but the nature of war itself has changed profoundly since he wrote.
Since then, the fundamental rationale has not changed: to collect high-quality data on the physics, chemistry, biology, and geology of the oceans that can be used to answer known questions as well as those we do not yet know enough to pose, to develop new instruments and systems to explore the ocean in new dimensions, and to engage a new generation of youth in science and technology.
In the past, Hewlett-Packard questioned the credibility of Mr. Hewlett, saying that his rationale for opposing the Compaq deal had changed over the months.
And it's a funny thing, but though the rationale for tax cuts seems to have changed, the distribution of the rewards -- who gets nothing, who gets the big benefits -- always ends up being the same.
We have changed the text to clarify our rationale for pursuing trypanosome targets.
When I received the next draft from the author, what had changed was not the event itself, but the rationale.
23 One explanation of the findings in this study, especially lower mortality in those who had changed their county of residence, could be the rationale to move.
