Sentence examples for rationalize actions from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department can't legally rationalize actions with one definition of imminent threat and brush off criticisms with another.

Bourdieu suggested that scholarly attention to rules may be misplaced, noting that they are often used to explain behaviour rather than to direct it; in other words, people often invoke rules only in retrospect, to rationalize actions they have already taken.

It should not be dragged back into the muck and murk by political figures whose sole agenda seems to be to rationalize actions that cost this country dearly — in our inability to hold credible trials for very bad men and in the continued damage to our reputation.

As a result, the elites lose their view of the nation as one community, and rationalize actions of all types that they would find abhorrent if the shoe were on the other foot.

Bilgrami (2006) argues that we can only be held responsible for actions if we know the beliefs and desires that "rationalize" our actions; since we can (by assumption) sometimes be held responsible, we must sometimes know our beliefs and desires.

I don't want to rationalize my actions, because I realize one has to take responsibility for one's actions".

The Democrats who regularly go on Fox News rationalize their actions.

The man who sexually abused her and beat and starved her to induce five miscarriages was also the churchgoer with a bottomless capacity to rationalize his actions.

It took Mr. Smeltzer years to admit his service because of the shame he felt for not being able to rationalize his actions.

"Once you see that you can trade for the thing for 10 cents a disc," he said, "why waste your money?" Even in cases where bands do not sanction live recordings, traders rationalize their actions.

One of the great dangers of religious belief is man's ability (and indeed propensity) to rationalize his actions and, in the case of the faithful, excuse them as the "will of God".