Sentence examples for that would be irrational from inspiring English sources

The threat of massive retaliation in response to a nuclear attack is a paradigmatic example of a kind of threat that would be irrational to execute after the associated demand is defied — if, for instance, one has already been the victim of one's opponent's first-strike.

Our point here is rather that how one looks at this potential paradox hinges on the way the players will revise their beliefs in "future" rationality in the light of observing a move that would be "irrational" under common knowledge of rationality.

I concluded that voting for that would be irrational and that trying something different with Syriza, however risky, made better sense.

If, however, police were to pull over black drivers at a rate that disproportionately exceeded their likelihood of drug possession, that would be an irrational behavior representing individual or institutional bias.

He'd gladly act for free, as he used to in college, but at the age of 51, with the responsibilities that come with adulthood, that would be highly irrational.

But the theory continues to fascinate, for there does seem something right about it, and recent events may well lead many people to think that the objection that banks would be irrational is perhaps not quite as decisive as it once may have seemed.

Motz noted that it would be irrational to imagine that the threat of terminated internet service would have any effect on those offenders already facing hefty civil penalties for past violations.

Almost everyone agrees that it would be irrational to have prior probabilities that were indifferent between green and grue, and thus made predictions of greenness no more probable than predictions of grueness.

On Friday, AT&T referred to arguments that chief executive Randall Stephenson made before the Senate last year, saying that it would be "irrational business behavior" for AT&T to restrict access to Time Warner's programming.

Letters released following Mrs Miller's apology revealed the Culture Secretary told Ms Hudson that it would be "irrational, perverse and unreasonable" to uphold the complaint against her and warned that she could go over her head to ask the MPs on the Standards Committee to intervene.

The situation seems worrying: Meir Dagan, Israel's legendary former chief of the Mossad has, time and again, made public statements that it would be irrational for Israel to attack Iran, and he has recently re-asserted that he believes Israel is not under imminent military threat.