Sentence examples for rationale said from inspiring English sources

"We continue to ask the question, 'What's the rationale?' " said Joe Augustus, a spokesman for Swisher International, a cigar producer.

"I don't see the rationale," said Prof. John C. Coffee Jr., an expert in securities law at Columbia University.

"Initially, the complex had a strong economic rationale," said James W. Hughes, the dean of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University.

"It's a real risky rationale," said George Sansoucy, managing director of Initiative, a media planning and buying agency in New York that has bought space in the magazine.

"I call it the Scooby-Doo profitability rationale," said Robert Aboulafia, an aviation consultant with the Teal Group, a consulting firm.

Whatever the rationale, said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, the affair was a fiasco for the school.

But on Wednesday, Alfred Mutua, the Kenyan government's chief spokesman, revised this rationale, saying the kidnappings were more of a "good launchpad".

In his testimony yesterday, Mr. Stern offered another rationale, saying that without the policy, the parks would be overrun by groups staging special events.

The rationale, says John Murphy, of the United States' Chamber of Commerce, "is more geopolitical than directly commercial .The United States exports $9 billion of goods to the Central American five, but that is barely more than 1% of its total exports.

Later, Russ Feingold made a similar attack on Mr Roberts' rationale, saying that "easy cases rarely get to the Supreme Court".The best background on this is probably Jeffrey Toobin's profile of Mr Roberts.

Trinity Mirror has denied this is the rationale, saying that there was was a desire to make sure the title could build its Scotland-themed content first so as not to be perceived as too England-centric.