"rationale to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a justification or reasoning for something. Example: The teacher provided a detailed rationale to explain the importance of the assignment, in order to help the students understand its purpose.
But it has no conservative rationale to explain its action, no language about the importance of social equilibrium it might use to justify itself.
He used the same rationale to explain his decision to retain ownership of the works rather than to give most of his holdings to one or more museums, as he had previously said he would do.
The combination of a geometric approach with a stability analysis yields an estimator design methodology with a nonlinear detectability condition susceptible of testing, a systematic estimator construction, a robust convergence criterion coupled with a simple tuning scheme, as well as a rationale to explain the interplay between sampling time, estimator gains, and estimator functioning.
We suggest two possible rationale to explain this finding.
Learning by growing represents an alternative rationale to explain the size-productivity nexus.
why does FINRA continue to titillate us with just enough facts about its arbitration cases to interest us but then delivers too little rationale to explain the decision?
That way, it's harder for people to get their back up because you're not devising rationales to explain someone else's behavior.
It's only much later that he develops the after-the-fact rationales to explain why his teenage intuition about Facebook was right.
But the latest eruptions are feeding into an atmosphere in which Mr. Obama appears to be looking for rationales to explain why a conflict he called a "war of necessity" two summers ago may no longer be as necessary.
This was observed in our study when students used multiple rationales to explain their classification decisions.
I heard similar rationales to explain the reelection of President Mubarak in Egypt that same year.
