Some feed them out of fear, reasoning that if the wolf at the door expects a snack, he won't bite.
Thubron went into publishing rather than go to university, reasoning that if he didn't become a writer, at least he would be close to books.
And since suicide is contagious, others have perhaps made copycat attempts already, reasoning that if even Robin Williams couldn't make things work, they can't, either.
Worse still, Tsonga is playing like a man possessed, reasoning that if he's going to lose he'd rather go out in a blaze of glory.
Finally, after ten days, the D.E.A. agent supervising the sting, Louis Milione, packed up, reasoning that if they lingered indefinitely they wouldn't seem real.
I eat pork, based on the reasoning that if you are not properly kosher, this gesture is futile and even insulting.
He still does, reasoning that if a player is distracted by concerns about his daughter, for example, it helps build trust if Fewell at least knows her name.
But sellers began to lighten or eliminate positions in big-cap technology names later on, reasoning that if Intel was having problems, other companies must be having trouble, too.
I avoided the first row, reasoning that if the driver were forced to stop abruptly, it would be preferable to be stopped by the row directly in front of me than to be hurled through the cab.
Following the reasoning that if Rodgers and Hammerstein's You'll Never Walk Alone, the tear-jerking showstopper from Carousel, is a football standard, why not other R and H classics, how about some numbers from The Sound of Music?
Even some opponents of the death penalty favor such a change in lethal injection technique, reasoning that if execution cannot be banned, it should at least be made more humane.
