Sentence examples for they rationalized from inspiring English sources
They rationalized their actions by maligning the quality of Soviet condoms, which were known to rupture or slide off.
Flynn was merely helping a businessman, they rationalized, and not acting as an agent of a foreign government.
They rationalized high valuations away by invoking the decoupling argument, which said emerging-market growth would be largely unaffected by worsening conditions elsewhere.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Sept. 28 — When the Giants chose Mathias Kiwanuka in the first round of the 2006 draft, they rationalized that a team could never have too many pass-rushing defensive ends.
These old hands had to worry about the numbers, of course, but they rationalized the upticks and downticks through a certain set of professional values, which they themselves spent years imbibing and which they in turn pressed upon their wards.
Hey, grandma, with her 401(k) money, is a big girl (they rationalized).
When they do, they rationalize it.
People are passive and they rationalize.
What motivates someone to commit such monstrous acts and how do they rationalize such evil?
Then they rationalize what they do with damage control later on -- or by blaming it on the right-wing conspiracy.
"If there are a few stumbles, they rationalize them by saying it will be better in the second half.
