Sentence examples for rationale that it from inspiring English sources

Explaining its decision not to recall the textbooks, Japan stuck with a rationale that it has invoked from the beginning of the controversy: its lack of authority to interfere in textbook matters in the absence of "clear mistakes".

The £500m bank debt was paid off with the proceeds of the 2010 bond issue, under the rationale that it offered more long-term certainty.

There is no ethical dimension to Kardashian's defence of her marriage, merely the rationale that it would have made bad commercial sense to have faked it.

Among some of the war's original powerful proponents, the anniversary has generated an argument — seen by their critics, inevitably, as a last-ditch rationale — that it is too soon to pass judgment on the wisdom of the decision to topple Saddam.

Three months ago, when his former budget director, Peter R. Orszag, proposed extending all the tax cuts for two years — with the rationale that it would be easier to kill them all in 2012 — it was greeted with derision at the highest levels of the administration.

But they've been reduced to this: disclosures that Browne Sanders filed false tax returns for a nonexistent business, and Thomas's twisted rationale that it's O.K. for black men to disrespect black women, but not for white men to do the same.

After the club's director surprises him with a compliment on his performing, Karofsky is the one who suggests that the team perform an extra musical number for the halftime show they are preparing for, though he comes up with a rationale that makes it sound like a necessity to keep up their social status rather than something he particularly wants to do.

Without an obvious rationale for that, it is only more difficult to persuade New Delhi or Islamabad to curb their own nuclear appetites.

We thank the referees for allowing us to better explain the novel methodological approach used and the rationale that brought us to use it.

Now that's a rationale that should get their attention.

"There is a Bush rationale that runs through Vic Mackey.