Sentence examples for ways of rationalizing from inspiring English sources

But she has found tidy ways of rationalizing both.

"I'm sure everybody understood it was wrong to take other people's work, but they had ways of rationalizing it," said Karina Moy, a 2010 graduate of the school.

That becomes a sort of a convenient way of rationalizing failure.

Some of the food cutbacks are by way of "rationalizing the meal service," Ms. Skornicka said.

Language gives the rest of us a way out — a way of rationalizing, explaining, telling ourselves a story about ourselves.

People have long suggested that the new structures of the American family are "unwholesome" as a way of rationalizing intolerance.

But others, detectives say, choose to cash in as a way of rationalizing their cooperation with the police as a business transaction.

That is a nice way of rationalizing why we now have a pile of lip balm on the floor in the bedroom.

That raises a moderately disturbing question: To what degree is Smith's anxiety a way of rationalizing an aggressive desire that the spotlight not be moved off him until he is done talking?

In an interview with the world music magazine fRoots in 2004, he said he chose the topic "as a way of rationalizing to myself that I hadn't misspent my entire youth listening to records to no purpose".

One way of rationalizing these opposing effects is to posit an overall reduction in the levels of Gli proteins in the mutants, the different consequences reflecting the differing contributions of the activator (Gli-A) and repressor (Gli-R) forms in different tissues.