However, Thomas points to a lack of critical discussion and explanation of the very basis for Prevent's community work, the rationale for how some areas are selected rather than others, and a lack of transparency about the proportion of spending on combating different types of extremism.
Nerijus Maliukevicius, a political science lecturer at Vilnius University who studies Russian media, believes this could partly provide the rationale for Sputnik's expansion into English and local language programming.
The rationale was simple: voters trust the IFS more than they do politicians.
Many of Britain's long-distance paths, such as the Ridgeway, have a historical rationale, and none more obviously so than the Grand Union Canal.
One FBI memo, which set out the rationale for investigating campaigners in the Houston area, touted the economic advantages of the pipeline while labelling its opponents "environmental extremists".
The rationale is that such promotions lead to unconscious positive links between alcohol and sport, with people drinking more and at a younger age.
"We are not aware of the full content of these confessions or indeed the full rationale for the exclusion of these men from further consideration".
Exhibit A in the publicly available complaint is the previously confidential 34-page report written by Horowitz, a document that includes his rationale behind the decision.
In a note this week titled, "Inflate This," analysts at Keefe Bruyette & Woods questioned whether the Fed's tendency to put a shiny gloss on the recovery makes sense: The traditional rationale for [lower interest rates] is to cool an overheated economy.
If not, such harmony as has existed in Malaysia could be dashed on the rocks of a sectarianism that provided the rationale for "guided democracy" in the first place.
I've been astonished to find after five full minutes' reflection that there is, actually, a rationale.
