In its 1978 Bakke decision, the Supreme Court shifted the rationale away from issues of social justice to the educational value of diversity.
The president later shifted the rationale, declaring it his own decision, informed at least partly by Mr. Comey's oversight of the Russia investigation.
When I suggested that Feith might also admire Lincoln because Lincoln shifted the rationale for his war in the middle of the fighting, Feith replied, with enthusiasm, "I never thought of that.
Mr. Kerry's victory forces General Clark to fight for the same patch of ground -- strength on national security affairs -- and it sharply shifts the rationale for his own candidacy, which had been predicated on being the Democrats' best anti-Dean choice.
For example, students who interpreted phylogenetic trees based on the proximity of organisms along the terminal tips or on knowledge about ecology tended to shift their rationale to rotation-based interpretations by the end of the course.
"The way I look at it, it's my job," he said, recounting and dismissing the shifting rationales for the war, from the weapons of mass destruction that did not exist to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein to the establishment of democracy in the Arab world.
Emergent trends from the data revealed shifts in the rationales students used when interpreting and comparing phylogenetic trees over the course of the semester.
