Sentence examples for rationalize the fact from inspiring English sources

Ginny Mayer Dana Point, Calif., Feb. 6, 2008 • To the Editor: Re "With Issues of War and Peace on Their Minds, Voters Make Choices" (news article, Feb. 6): It's difficult for me to rationalize the fact that most voters believed that the economy was the most important issue in this primary election.

Honestly, for a company that's never shied away from potentially flooding the market with a million different devices in the same category, it's tough to rationalize the fact that the company didn't release the Sport SKU alongside the original S3 (which already came in two different configurations).

The N.C.A.A. exists to rationalize the tawdry fact that the labor force of a $6 billion business — the estimated revenue of college football and men's basketball — receives no compensation.

Thus, high configurational entropy provides a way to rationalize, after the fact, why a solid solution forms (if it forms), but it is not a useful a priori predictor of which of the so-called high-entropy alloys will form thermodynamically stable single-phase solid solutions.

On the editorial page, The Times called the statue "atrociously bad art" and said it could not "be rationalized by the fact that two other very bad statues already exist near by" - the Alice and Andersen statues.

This assignment was rationalized by the fact that oxygen is always present at the 3-coordinated nitrogen sites in the Ta3N5 structure.

The larger amounts of methane can be rationalized by the fact that Rh is more active in breaking the C C bond compared to Pt [19, 20, 21].

Differences in performance are rationalized by the fact that each descriptor set describes the AA space differently (as also shown in the companion paper) [21].

The size dependence of the QY of a dimer-NP system was rationalized by the fact that local field on the NP's surface is also size-dependent [10].

This simple analysis clearly shows that the long surface Fe OH2 distance can be rationalized by the fact that the surface Fe3+ atoms are already fully charge balanced (i.e. valence saturated) with only 5 neighbors.

Retrospective rationality theories, unlike theories that assert that behavior is prospectively rational and consciously chosen to obtain some goal, suggest that behavior is largely under some external control and behavior is rationalized after the fact (e.g. Aronson 1972).