Rationalizing Sentence Examples

Was she rationalizing, or was it merely sound judgment?

It sounded reasonable, but was she merely rationalizing?

Therefore a Standing Committee will be formed for rationalizing the existing rates of value addition for all commodities including readymade garments.

Also, a majority of Americans are against unauthorized wiretaps regardless of Bush's rhetoric in rationalizing the illegal surveillance.

By rationalizing the number of these specialty fuels, ExxonMobil and other companies could bring fuels to market more efficiently and cost effectively.

I 'm just rationalizing that my OE harness will do fine for now.

Also, a majority of Americans are against unauthorized wiretaps regardless of Bush 's rhetoric in rationalizing the illegal surveillance.

Succeeding generations who have little thought for the morrow could well continue to spend at increasing rates, rationalizing that they won't have anything to retire on anyway.

Rationalizing that he was upset at past-Deidre like everyone else was, she wanted to stop Wynn before he said something worse.

When you're hungry and someone offers a meal, maybe you start rationalizing the price you're paying and start playing by a different set of rules.

As intelligent as Annie Quincy was, I still have trouble rationalizing her exit.

Finally, rationalizing that they needed milk, she headed for the grocery store.

But the progress of husbandry, evidenced by the production of larger and better crops with more certainty, is due to that rationalizing of agricultural practices which is the work of modern times.

This rationalizing method of interpretation is known as Euhemerism.

Old-fashioned in most of his views, he disliked the tendencies alike of the Methodists and other revivalists and of the rationalizing dissenters, yet he had a good word for Priestley and Theophilus Lindsey.

Maurice, the only historian of note who declines to ascribe a rationalizing tendency to Erigena, obscures the question by the manner in which he states it.

It is under the banner of this protest against rationalizing idealism that Schopenhauer advances.

He modified the legends, not with a view to rationalizing them, but rather to adjust them to popular beliefs.

The Government, however, judged otherwise; and after the first part of his book, On Religion within the Limits of Reason alone, had appeared in the Berlin Journal, the publication of the remainder, which treats in a more rationalizing style of the peculiarities of Christianity, was forbidden.

He had an unbounded admiration for Erasmus, with whom he entered into correspondence, and from whom he received a somewhat chilling patronage; whilst the brilliant humanist, Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), taught him to criticize, in a rationalizing way, the medieval doctrines of Rome.