Sentence examples for rationale thing from inspiring English sources

That said, I think those who say that the latter isn't possible and that the only rationale thing to do is simply trust Obama's "buck stops here" promise yesterday are being willfully stupid and dishonest - both to themselves and to those they are arguing with.

When we asked O'Leary how he could possibly sign off on more and more plant licenses, he offered his personal rationale: Things would leak before they broke.

Our wall is different; even if you accept the monstrous rationale behind the thing, it's still utterly pointless.

And his position and rationale on other things changed according to political convenience.

These shifting rationales had one thing in common: none of them were credible.

"There are people setting policy and we don't even know who they are and we can't explore their rationale for doing things," he said.

Dr. Diamond is less sure about the health rationale for the gemstone thing.

"My mom never turned around, never reacted in any way, and my dad turned to me, didn't miss a beat and said, 'Whatever happened to the metric system?' " It was drummed into him as a human-sexuality master's student, Vernacchio said, to never be explicit merely for the sake of being explicit: have a rationale for every last thing you say.

Like many things, the rationale only makes sense superficially.

Always excusing people, finding a rationale for the shitty things they do.

And there is the equally problematic issue of missile defense, starting with the basic rationale for having such a thing.