Sentence examples for understood rationally from inspiring English sources

This analysis leads inexorably to the conclusion that the statute cannot be understood rationally to advance a constitutionally legitimate interest.

Unlike their fictional counterparts, the super powers of these alloys can now be understood rationally, although at the time they were a mystery.

The question of whether Wagner's music ought to be played in Israel cannot be fully understood rationally ["A Cultural Disconnect on Wagner" by Anthony Tommasini, Aug. 5].

He argues that in his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes quietly distinguishes between extended bodies as understood rationally and quantitatively and the "my body" of immediate sensation.

"It doesn't have to be understood rationally.

Science as well as religion need to be understood rationally.

Reason, Leopardi argues, is always a faculty of diminution and disillusion, so that whatever we understand rationally ceases to seem valuable or significant to us.

A biological instinct to steer clear of contagion can kick in even with diseases like cancer that we understand rationally aren't communicable.

However, given the diversity of tree species and their morphological properties, it is important to understand rationally how different trees regulate thermal comfort.

We may understand rationally that psychosis isn't a contagion, yet still we turn aside from the street soliloquisers and avoid the tormented gazes of those being "cared for in the community".

To this end, I use techniques such as protein mutagenesis, expression, and purification systems in addition to x-ray crystallography and chemical-protein structure activity relationships to understand, rationally design, and optimize these small molecule inhibitors for potential use in clinical trials.