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.
Marian Wright Edelman, this country's most effective and passionate advocate for children, is never at a loss for words but the implications of the current congressional battle over welfare "reform" are beyond even her capacity to rationalize them.
And this is especially so given the human capacity to rationalize: People who find that a relative's assisted suicide will be in their interests can quickly persuade themselves that it would be in the relative's interest, too.
And it's human nature for people and organizations to be reluctant to acknowledge mistakes and to have an almost unlimited capacity to rationalize and force facts and theories to conform to their self-interest.
The transformation from an issue-related, technical cooperation into a deep integrated geo-political entity was made possible, among others, by the bureaucracy and its capacity to rationalize and depoliticize issues through standard operating procedures, which led to an institutional spill-over.
These observations not only suggest the importance of protein acetylation in controlling cellular state and differentiation capacity, but also rationalize approaches to potentially correct these abnormalities or treat diseases by targeting HATs and HDACs.
A thorough X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is carried out on the Sb/Na electrochemical cell to rationalize the different electrochemical performances in terms of irreversible capacity on first cycle, cumulated capacity losses, reversible capacity and capacity retention.
As county executive, Mr. Suozzi wants to clean up after years of Republican mismanagement, restore and increase the borrowing capacity of the county government, rationalize the administrative structure he inherited, and minimize the need to raise taxes.
'Rational selection' proposes to rationalize therapeutic choices.
Rather than making thoughtful, reasoned choices, we often end up using the highest capacities of our brain to rationalize, justify and minimize our self-destructive behaviors.
