How To Use Rationale In A Sentence

The literature on rationale effects provided a good deal of support for the general position that undesirable behaviors can often be suppressed without resorting to punishment. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
The criticisms of the law, and the absence of any satisfactory rationale justifies this course.
Superficially, the rationale of the style would seem to be its conjuncture of sensitivity and showmanship.
But it actually is ushering in a new rationale for the media's scandal mongering.
But the extended prayer in unison is a metallic Procrusteanism, which absolutely defies the rationale of the whole business, which is the communication of meaning. Leap Year -- Day

Of these, the first three have more or less been OK moving to Santa Monica (well, at least the rationale is there). Archive 2005-07-01
One can understand the rationale behind all of this. Times, Sunday Times
The second exception comes into play if the rationale underlying the patent holder's argument bears only a tangential relation to the equivalent.
The booklet reflected the philosophy behind this managerial approach by showing the economic rationale behind subcontracting.
Background/rationale: One of the most important changes to managed care payments in the BBA was the required implementation of risk adjustment. Presidential Plan To Modernize And Strengthen Medicare A
The whole rationale of a global advertising business is under question.
But other reasons and rationales exist for adopting and strengthening an historical perspective.
This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim.
A former State Department official told the same committee last week that Addington and Yoo had been part of a group of six officials who "colluded" to develop a legal rationale for subjecting detainees to harsh treatment. Torture? What's That?
Reflection on the basic rationale of equity investment, that is.
One thing is clear to me: If biblical studies is to survive in academia, it must move beyond its still religionist, Euroamerican, and bibliolatrous orientation and offer us a more convincing rationale for how it will benefit our broader world and not just faith communities.
Later Iran would be increasingly identified as a putative rationale for extending it into the Persian PSI, US 1,000-Ship Navy: Control Of World's Oceans, Prelude To War
What was the rationale behind the ludicrous decision to cutback on these schemes?
She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water. Distant Shores
With hardly a credible debate on the rationale and justification of rapid disinvestment, some of the most profitable or strategically important public sector undertakings are being privatised.
The economic rationale has two strands. Victimology - the victim and the criminal justice process
Sure, throw a potshot because it went in the ocean, but it had a scientific rationale. President's Science Advisor Talks About NASA - NASA Watch
Still not clear what the Church intends to do with the land in question and the rationale for "centralising" social services all in one location. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
I did not hear the moderator ask both aspirants to detail the rationale for future asset management/disposal strategies.
One rationale claims that the increase was because of growing numbers of people and increased specialized programs. Christianity Today
He explained the rationale for such financing: An article of property, insusceptible of division at all, or not without great diminution of its worth, is sometimes of so large value that no purchaser can be found ... A Back-To-Jefferson Solution For The Housing Crisis
I was not suggesting that these rationales necessarily would be released unsealed and underacted nor that they would necessarily be sufficient for court review in the released version. The Volokh Conspiracy » Fascinating Interview with DNI McConnell about New FISA Legislation:
There are many rationales for Kirk having additional "promotability". TrekMovie.com
This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim.
Though the pathological conditions of hydrophobia and serpent poisoning are by no means parallel, the _rationale_ of the methods employed in opening the emunctories of the skin are the same; and were it not for its powerful protracting effect and depressing action upon the heart, we might perhaps secure valuable aid from jaborandi Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884
At our meeting, Mr. Hansen presented a number of rationales in defence of the proposed increase in holding capacity.
Now coming up with tenuous rationales for persuading unwitting students to choose your major is hardly unique to any field of study.
As summary statements, part of their rationale is to provide a key to the linkages between different articles.
In practice, of course, few paper systems delivered all these benefits but they were the rationale behind their maintenance.
David Allvey, chairman of Costain, said: "The board of Costain continues to believe that there is a compelling strategic rationale for combining Costain and Mouchel and creating an enlarged group with enhanced critical mass to meet the customer trend towards larger and longer-term bundled solutions. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
One of the soldiers responsible for this act of blatant provocation explained the rationale.
The rationale for replacing the old buses remains slightly mysterious.
This Living Dead Girl is no brainless zombie intent only on brains, she is a thinking, rationale being with a strong sense of right and wrong who just happens to be back from the dead…and is a very messy blood-feaster. The Living Dead Girl (1982)
Moreover, the Boston Massacre provided much of the rationale for the Third and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, which protect us from soldiers being quartered in our homes and from “unreasonable searches and seizures.” A Renegade History of the United States
The rationale for disulfiram in treating alcoholism is that most alcoholics taking disulfiram will not drink for fear of getting sick.
Subjects covered in the video included function and rationale for use of excipients, powder sieving and blending, and tablet dedusting/ polishing.
Conversely, the rationale for starting cattle on a diet with less roughage and more concentrate is based on the perceived improvement in performance and, thereby, increased profitability.
The ornament which the bishop is wearing above the chasuble is the rationale, an episcopal humeral, a counterpart of the pallium, and like it worn over the chasuble. The Mater Ter Admirabilis
The "mislaid" rationale presumes the existence of a living owner, or the vigilance of the depositor's descendants; only occasionally can it be helpful for older artifacts, such as those in Idaho, as the likelihood of the original depositor's return diminishes with each passing year. The Slow Death of Treasure Trove
Again, economic analysis explores both the rationale and the efficiency of such government intervention.
Objective: To test the rationale for designing an occlusal rest for a distal - extension removable partial denture.
The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.
We propose two rationales for using primary research articles in a course for non-science majors.
Such a process is somewhat like screening a personal investment portfolio to determine whether the original rationale for investing in a stock is still operative.
'legitimation' and, with it, the rationale for research altogether - esp. in disciplines pertaining to human life, society and meaning. CHE > Latest news
By adopting a comparative approach, this dissertation will analyze the rationale of law draftsman, legislative intent, cases and statutes of different countries.
The admirably informative yet crisp introduction gives no rationale for this inconsistency. The Times Literary Supplement
The rationale behind societal amorality is the myopic question: "How does my immoral behavior hurt you? Our Pal Joey?
Paul also rejected the rationale of both the offender and the offended.
There are a number of rationales for this, but the one most advocated is that those who are blessed with being successful have a greater obligation to pay back society with by paying higher taxes. April « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
We can distinguish between two kinds of rationale or emphasis in general degree courses: the general and the generic.
The privacy rationale for exclusion is much less convincing when you look at a mall as being owned by a bodiless corporation that lets hordes of strangers swarm over its ‘private’ property.
Objective: To test the rationale for designing an occlusal rest for a distal - removable partial denture.
It's hard to knock this decision in political terms, and it has a defensible legal rationale.
The triumphalism flowed, he notes, from a deceptively simple rationale.
The political rationale for this initiative lay in nationalist concerns about Turkey, which prevailed during the period, as well as in the long-standing concerns about the 'demographic problem' given the low birth rate in Greece. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
The scientistic rationale was particularly influential in the creation of modern economic theory.
The rationale for adopting a single platform is that it might be beneficial for students trying to navigate through various courses, since they have a similar format.
We note that the myrmecophily of the two species has the same adaptive rationale.
Lacking in any obvious rationale, the British terrorism-attack practice runs appear more like panicked PR than useful exercises.
The result has been to leave the place without any obvious rationale. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, however, selection is bound to be arbitrary, because rationales for including one country and excluding another are based on judgments as to what the determinant variables are.
This need to deliver exceptionally high quality audio was the rationale behind the Selangor Turf Club's recent purchase of a Jünger Audio d06 Level Magic processor, a two channel digital non destructive loudness normaliser that provides high quality, automatic control of loudness on any incoming source, regardless of its input level. UK Regional Film and Television News
Is it because it puts an entirely different slant on the rationale for the legislation?
American religious historians like me usually do not spend much time thinking about the rationale for doing what we do. Christianity Today
There may be rationales for such beliefs, but the weight of the evidence I've seen does not convince me.
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. Carroll and the ancient genetic tool kit
Man, according to the old scholastic definition, is "a rational animal" (_animal rationale_), and his animality is distinct in nature from his rationality, though inseparably joined, during life, in one common personality. On the Genesis of Species
In constructing the legal rationale for the "Other Intelligence Activities," Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyer John Yoo "did not accurately describe the scope" of the activities, which led former attorney general John Ashcroft to give "his legal authorization to the program for the first two and a half years based on a 'misimpression' of what activities the N.S.A. was actually conducting. The Progress Report: Bush's Secret Spy Programs
The economic rationale, in terms of economic efficiency, was agreed in terms of increasing competitiveness, rather than the change of ownership.
In essence, the rationale for local economic development links economic development to community well-being.
The rationale was that the manual should have pointed out that cruise control does not actually steer a car even if it is maintaining its speed.
It is hard to generalise about the rationale behind these deals and investments. Times, Sunday Times
The draft does not provide the rationale for the proposal. Christianity Today
This is a reflection of the fact that the 'Ideology of Pakistan', indeed the very rationale for the creation and continued existence of the state of Pakistan, is premised on the notion of undying and perpetual hatred of and opposition to India. Countercurrents.org
This moreover reflects the fact that the rationale of warranties in insurance law is that the insurer only accepts the risk provided that the warranty is fulfilled.
The same grim economic rationale driving the mergers is also leading to cuts in officer numbers. Times, Sunday Times
I can understand the rationale behind it, although I have to say I wonder about its workability and whether it will work as its supporters think it will.
In Matzke's defense: While I've found his tone consistently (to this point, at least) off-putting, and I've been none too impressed by quite a lot of his rationales with regards to that tone when it comes to ID, this is this first time I recall him directly touching on the subject of theism/atheism itself. A Pat on the Back for Matzke
The whole rationale of symbolic gestures requires that they disrupt and disturb the secular order.
That is, if the CIA operates drone strikes against a target in Somalia, for example, it might apply the self-defense rationale and say that it is not an armed conflict, and is instead an act of self-defense simpliciter. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
Durham had undercut the entire theological rationale for the revival.
TALLAHASSEE - The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would "emasculate" the state's broad public access laws. Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
The detention of children without a coherent rationale is institutional child abuse.
Another rounding error, another ‘journalistic rationale’ for the wiggles in the market chart.
(It's only later, during AC's "Catastrophe For Two Worlds" event, in an attempt to simplify the morass of rationales for superpowers, that the Prof's "primalised matter" is revealed to be none other than the proteanite toxic to Overman, but in an omicron-irradiated form harmless to the Man of the Future.) The Legion of American Watchers
Williams's answer is interesting and often delightful, if not always fully worked out, and his angle of approach harks back to classic ludenic SF writers like Zelazny and Farmer, whose pocket universes borrowed as much from fantasy as SF, and who pretty much had to weave them from whole cloth in terms of any sort of SFnal rationale. Another Strong Tide of Reviews, Washing In . . .
Encouraging commercial companies by reduction of American Space Quality & Safety standards is not a legitimate rationale for subsidizing them with taxpayer $$, for a few very wealthy space tourists to galavant. Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
Again, economic analysis explores both the rationale and the efficiency of such government intervention.
The rationale is that self-sterile ryes are highly heterozygous and commonly carry deleterious genes (in heterozygous condition), some of which become homozygous in triticale and presumably result in reduced vigor and/or fertility. 8 Research Needs
That model was the only document providing an economic rationale for the Oasis project.
However, the rationale for such in-itiatives is not, of course, solely economic.
The sad but true facts seem to suggest that pure and unadulterated sectarianism is at the base of the rationale that is clouding common sense and sound judgement within unionism.
She soaks the dried chickpeas in cold water and a mixture of bicarb, flour and salt – the last, according to Harold McGee, speeds the eventual cooking time, but reduces the swelling of starch granules within the beans, giving a "mealy internal texture, rather than a smooth one", but the rationale behind the flour I'm unable to fathom. How to make perfect hummus
Yet, in that familiar paradox Freud makes his own, our drives have their own ineluctable logics and rationales.
Over the past two months, our selectors have been chopping and changing the side more in the manner of a butcher in a meat shop rather than making changes with any rationale behind them.
He has what is a very difficult rationale to penetrate, that is that he cannot really say how he would rule on cases, because if he is confirmed, as everybody expects, then it would be undermining his credibility as a sitting judge, or in this particular case, a sitting chief justice. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005
In a meritocratic society, intelligence was a defensible rationale for social distinctions.
In the document he explains the rationale for his plan to build a car for the African market.
For example, he invites us to ‘consider the number of collocations like ‘by and large’ that we use with no discernible compositional rationale.’
However, the rationale for such in-itiatives is not, of course, solely economic.
It is one of the rationales behind the law of trespass.
We had completely lost track of this rationale by the time a boatload of them turned in July this year.
The basis of the punishment is the rationale of a law, or the preceptive aspect of a law. Motherly Advice
Beveridge provided a rationale based on concepts of national efficiency, rationality and the rights of citizenship.
The rationale of this approach is that overall clinical utility of one pattern versus another depends on overall perfusion effects, which intrinsically depend on both pressurization and relief cycles.
Her efforts are bent toward finding a truer, more complex rationale for the character's pain than the script's menopausal musings.
It reveals as mythical much of the past theological rationale for disunity.
Since the end of the Cold War removed the rationale for an anti-communist alliance, the Western powers have tried to legitimise an essentially unipolar, US-dominated world order in the language of humanitarian internationalism.
Clear articulation of the underlying usability analysis, a kind of design rationale, may help.
But this rationale is just another way people try to devalue bisexuality as an identity, the same tactic used to devalue homosexuality, or being transgender, etc.
As to the question of hierarchy, it’s not directly based on the detestableness that I perceive, but the degree it is unwise for impressionable minds to blindly imitate, combined with those ideas that lack a rationally-based rationale so to speak... which, in turn, leads to the “detestableness”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Privacy Law and Ethics Questions:
The rationale for the government's proposed change, however, is incontestable.
The rationale behind prohibiting some exercises of discretion is that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects people against invidious discrimination.
These theories might not be the result of any scientific study, but they are a little more detailed than the rationale offered most often by fans of the rival team, ‘they blankety-blank suck.’
The chemistry of the functional groups is considered here with a mechanistic rationale.
It might appear rational for every government decision to be based upon an evaluation of its expected consequences - a rationale that is termed consequentialism - but that rationale is far from being the general rule. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
My rationale for preparing so detailed a schema rests on (a) my proclivity to divagate and lose focus, (2) the high valuation I put on transitions and continuity, and (iii) the importance of strong, clear, explicit thesis sentences for an audience to orient itself. Akma
Is there any rationale behind his decision to re-embrace the blockbuster? Times, Sunday Times
* Rationales quoque aliae creaturae, et de bono in malum sponte propria profluentes, spiritus pessimi et spiritus appellantur immundi; sicut ibi, Cum autem spiritus immundus exierit ab homine: Pneumatologia
Her appointment is about reassuring the teachers or it has no rationale. Times, Sunday Times
The very rationale of the exclusion at common law of a confession by a third party is the risk of fabrication.
What scared me witless recently, not to be uncouth and say 'shitless', was to look at a topographical representation of the society outlined in Orwell's 1984, delineating the small proportion of 'inner party' as '2\%' - and thinking of the 'trickle down' theory of economics deployed as rationale for tax cuts in the CounterPunch
One rationale claims that the increase was because of growing numbers of people and increased specialized programs. Christianity Today
The rationale for the use of topical preparations is to apply a divalent cation that will bind to form a insoluble salt, thus limiting percutaneous penetration of the fluoride ion. 15 Calcium gluconate gel 2.5 percent is a topical treatment for hydrofluoric acid burns. Hydrofluoric Acid
Still it is very interesting to see all the various excuses and rationales in one place.
The main rationale behind the commuter coach is to lure car drivers away from their vehicles, rather than to compete head-to-head with rival train services. Times, Sunday Times
In essence, the rationale for local economic development links economic development to community well-being.
The rationale behind protecting the head is to escape from the vertical heat rays.
This opposition provides the most convincing rationale for his famous antithesis between bureaucracy and charisma.
Personally, I thought he blabbered on without establishing the rationale for his so-called policy initiatives, other than in sweeping feel-good ideological terms.
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
Due to the rationale of Von Neumann computer are based on mathematical logic, it did a wonderful job when dealing with mathematics problem.
This can provide a rationale for acquisition and divestment.
The economic rationale, in terms of economic efficiency, was agreed in terms of increasing competitiveness, rather than the change of ownership.
Its rationale is that analysing patterns of care will help to reduce the variation in performance among doctors and lead to improvements in the quality of health care.
Apart from this political conjuncture, the debate in 1996 was also driven by years of organized, sustained, and effective attacks on the rationale for welfare and the outcomes ascribed to it.
The NCAA must release documents on Florida State's appeal of an academic cheating penalty, a Florida judge ruled Friday, noting that the NCAA's rationale for keeping the documents secret would 'emasculate' the state's broad public access laws. Statesman - AP Sports
According to her own notes and this account in today's Sun-Sentinel, Jeck asked whether the rationale for Scalia's well-known opposition to cameras in the Supreme Court was "vitiated" by the facts that the Court allows public visitors to view arguments and releases full argument transcripts to the public, and that justices go out on book tours. How Dahlia Lithwick would like you to think about Supreme Court appointments: liberal = moderate, conservative = extreme.
A rationale for adopting a Norwegian shared model is this: right now a sardar or landowner may possess copper that is worth a lot in the present market. IntelliBriefs
The rationale behind this is apparent on our featured deal. Times, Sunday Times
Recommended changes had to be substantiated by explicit statements of rationale, supported by the systematic review of relevant empirical data.
In addition, Leibniz's theory of monadic perception — a psychology of ontological substance — provided the philosophical rationale for placing sensation, intellection, and feeling on a continuum, so that perception, or feeling, might be regarded as a "confused" form of thinking, yet remain clear in its effect. Club Monad
The rationale of Wickard and subsequent rulings is very often justified on the basis of an interconnected natl. economy, one unforeseen, or so it goes, by the founders. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawsuits Against the Health Care Bill
I guess what makes this so obviously reprehensible is the fact that this position is not grounded on any rationale but on unreasoned, exaggerated fear, and not a little bit of an ingredient called “sadism.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
His stated rationale feels like it was copy-and-pasted from the party switchers of yore, but normally when this happens the switcher is some kind of veteran legislator protesting that his old party has become too extreme. Matthew Yglesias » The Weirdness of Parker Griffith
However, the rationale for such in-itiatives is not, of course, solely economic.
But he nonetheless urges the extension of partition and provides a rationale for the continued separation of the two states.
The chain of command is no more functioning effectively, span of control is just limited in formalities, power and authority is not assigned properly for rationale use, unwanted intervention has become a part of commanding culture, security politics is criminalized, accountability, responsibility and answerability are just survived in part of vocabulary and academic lessons of policing. Nepal: Disappearing Security in Occlusion
The President does not need to repeat the rationale behind his decision to raise fuel prices.
The rationale for finding no preemption, the court thought, was “nicely underscored” by the facts here, because the primary claims of copyright infringement were “largely irremediable.” Archive 2009-04-01
Logic, sometimes called philosophia rationales, forms the introduction or propaedeutic to both.
Let's face facts; this is the harsh reality that we've been fighting all along, though we are perpetually shocked by decisions (like Herring) that rationalize a way around a rule until we are left with rules that bear no nexus to their original purpose, a problem that I describe as a rubric without the rationale. Simple Justice
I am a name nude known to collectors, an overdosed under-achiever, greatest pilot to the inhospitable middle-class rationale. Oogy Wawa
Opening the seminar, outlined the rationale of the development programme and the approach being adopted.
You can dress up your rationale for admitting you find "pulsating" a desirable characteristic in a candidate all you want; but there's no logical connection between pulsating and strength of character. Liberals ideate furiously over the black-and-white McCain website.
I can never understand the rationale behind some of the things that women do these days.
It is important to both the engagement process and to the ultimate success of counseling that the adolescent endorse an individualized rationale for counseling.
2C receptors with SB206553 or cyproheptadine, in both rats and humans, largely eliminates these calcium currents and muscle spasms, providing a new rationale for antispastic drug therapy. receptor activity, but not residual 5-HT, causes spasms. Naturejobs - All Jobs
The rationale of the argument is a move from imaginability to real possibility. Dualism
Therapists should of course avoid a spiritual rationale with clients disinclined toward a theistic worldview.
The 1970s witnessed dramatic changes in policy rationales for state involvement in economic affairs.
Even those who had for weeks recited the political rationale of the meeting found themselves stunned at the sight of a British prime minister lunching with one of the world's most notorious dictators.
His rationale for this is that adults can feel pain in the subcortex even if their sensory cortex is removed. New Scientist - Online News
With arguments often eerily reminiscent of old rationales for black oppression, gays and lesbians remain openly, legally and even, 'righteously', discriminated against. Michael Henry Adams: Celebrating Homo-Harlem
I think the real rationale for the American system is provided by Barry Goldwater, patron saint of the modern conservative movement, who explained “I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.” Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Civil Servants
As long ago I had formulated untutored the _rationale_ of coitus, so now imagination, groping in the dark, conceived a fresh fillip for the appetite -- _cunnilinctus_. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
The rationale for investing in off-grid energy development is three-fold. Let the Market Pay for Renewable Energy
In 1943 Yatsugi Kazuo, a member of the Center for National Strategy, approached Nishida and asked him to contribute a scholarly account of Japan's role in East Asia, that is, to help provide a rationale for the creation of the so-called “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.” The Kyoto School
What if some one could undergo that absorption with a cool ... dare I say it? ... scientific rationale.
Stockhausen Serves Imperialism" was published in 1974 and contained his rationale for switching from avant-garde composition - which he characterized as elitist - to more folk based writing. Undefined
In other words, the rationale for ‘choosing’ a caesarean section was not derived from a positive attitude based on accurate information about the risks and benefits of the procedure, but to avoid negative ‘side effects.’
The Board also agreed to the definition of Manual Harvest Worker unamended as the underlying rationale was to address field work during a restricted harvesting season.
I'd like to ask Mr. Napper for his rationale in this behavior but somehow I think he wouldn't be able to explain it and would probably stomp off in a huff when asked.
The board of Costain continues to believe that there is a compelling strategic rationale for combining Costain and Mouchel and creating an enlarged group with enhanced critical mass to meet the customer trend towards larger and longer-term bundled solutions," Costain Chairman David Allvey said. Costain Raises Mouchel Offer to $236 Million
Those differences and the rationales behind them will be discussed below.
At our meeting, Mr. Hansen presented a number of rationales in defence of the proposed increase in holding capacity.
The official rationale behind this policy is that alcohol burns more cleanly than pure gasoline, which supposedly means less air pollution.
The rationale behind occupational licensing is that it protects consumers from harm. Times, Sunday Times
Distance gap and projected time gap data will be verified here using a similar rationale.
Although the verse refers to a judge, the rationale applies to anyone in a position of public trust.
His rationale is unflinching, it is all about standards.
A fad is a short lived mania, of no apparent rationale that in retrospect looks pretty silly.
They could come back with their list and the rationale behind it for publication on Webdiary.
The rationale for minimally invasive pedicle screw insertion into the spine, which can be performed percutaneously or via a paramedian mini-open technique, is to preserve multifidus muscle function.
The rationale of the exercise was that if man performed the sacrificial rituals correctly, the devas would reciprocate by performing their cosmic function in the most beneficent way.
The Bill now limits mandatory jury inquests to death in custody and police cases, without explaining the rationale for this. Times, Sunday Times
Zamboni's hypothesis does not have "a reasonable scientific rationale".
The scientific rationale behind this supposed cause and effect was based on observation, experimental evidence, and maybe the collected epiphanies and anecdotes of those who had successfully managed to bant. 'Good Calories, Bad Calories'
Not only is there a strong moral agenda, but a clear economic rationale to this argument. Times, Sunday Times
Blaming them also provides a rationale for renationalizing Argentine firms, erecting barriers to imports and foreign investment, and increasing government spending.
The managerialism of the current university system has meant that Internet-based pedagogy has been focussed on design issues, rather than rationale, intentions or applications.
Can you please explain the rationale? Times, Sunday Times
To develop so strong a brand on so conspicuously threadbare a rationale is hugely creative – revolutionary even. 2009 January 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
It is to use an existing iron ore seminar on November 26 to explain its rationale to shareholders. Times, Sunday Times

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