WASHINGTON — When President Obama announced his new war plan for Afghanistan last year, the centerpiece of the strategy — and a big part of the rationale for sending 30,000 additional troops — was to safeguard the Afghan people, provide them with a competent government and win their allegiance.
In the past six weeks, several Westerners have been kidnapped from Kenya near the Somali border, and Kenyan officials immediately blamed the Shabab for the abductions, citing them as a rationale for sending hundreds of troops into Somalia over the weekend.
The Holiday Bandit's bank robbery spree aside, the annual tally of armed bank robberies has fallen to a few dozen a year in the city, just a fraction of the more than 300 armed bank heists in 1979, when the unit was formed; police officials have cited the lack of cases as one rationale for sending its six detectives and a supervisor elsewhere.
Government and ruling party officials have offered a series of rationales for sending the destroyer to the Indian Ocean, from the need to protect Japanese shipping to the ship's powerful air-conditioning, which they say makes it more appropriate than less sophisticated Japanese warships for use in the tropics.
At the time, the Bush administration was searching for evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) as rationale for sending U.S. troops into the country.
In a memo to F.B.I. employees sent last Friday, Comey explained his rationale for sending his letter to Congress.
This month, the 40th anniversary of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong's first footsteps on the moon, you will hear many rationales for sending humans into space, many noble goals that the challenge of space can help humanity to fulfill.
The lawsuit also contends that the protected religious and political speech of prisoners was used as a rationale to send them to the CMUs.
Histopathology agreements were in place between MRC and all diagnostic hospitals outlining the trial rationale and stressing the importance of sending blocks promptly to the central laboratories.
While the idea of sending astronauts aloft never to return is jarring upon first hearing, the rationale for one-way trips into space has both historical and practical roots.
Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers.
