"We may thank the war for rationalizing much of the state," Constantine muses.

Certainly, rationalizing individuals' requests was clearly evident (see Chapter 4).

If anyone argues with them they say that he is rationalizing his own desires, and therefore need not be answered.

But after rationalizing things, I realized I still wanted to buy that home.

And, of course, there is the retrospective rationalizing, which is another way to cope with envy.

During the 1960s Otava faced grave financial difficulties but was able to pull through by rationalizing operations.

They tended to see the legal system as unjust, an opinion they used in rationalizing their own bending of the law.

Amulya frequently accepts Sandip's motives by rationalizing the necessary actions.

Legal thought today, Unger argues, is but a rationalization of existing rules and doctrines that make up contemporary arrangements (he terms it "rationalizing legal analysis").

However, when I suggested to them that they might be romanticizing, even rationalizing, a form of laziness, they jumped back with a testiness I didn't expect.

Gov. Jon Corzine's Commission on Rationalizing New Jersey's Health Care Resources, formed late last year, looks promising.

They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme, rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade, to offset the costs to the poorer tenants.

As an important agency of the Government Board's purpose is multiple and widespread in rationalizing the vision of the government's educational policy and ensuring its implementation within its assigned jurisdiction.

It occupies the former Plains Health Centre, previously a third hospital in Regina which in the course of rationalizing health services in Saskatchewan was in due course closed.

The feud intensified in the autumn of 2007, when Fadl, the author of a canonical encyclopedia of violent jihad, released a new work, "Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World."

When the name is used, the "Gaussian distribution" was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, who introduced the distribution in 1809 as a way of rationalizing the method of least squares as outlined above.

The book Rationalizing Jihad opens with the premise that "there is nothing that invokes the anger of God and His wrath like the unwarranted spilling of blood and wrecking of property."

He kept no special lookout, rationalizing that night feeders would be bedded down and day feeders would hardly be prowling the tree topsnot big ones, anyway; they would be on the ground, stalking herbivores.

Furthermore, some liberals had pushed their rationalizing of the Christian faith to the extreme point where it was fashionable to argue that 'God is dead' and that the only truly Christian thing to do was to abandon the churches altogether.

The author examined significant statistics that showed a need within the community of Bayview Hunters Point in order to "identify gaps in service delivery system to create a road map for improving neighborhood conditions by rationalizing the allocation of city dollars to social service programs" (Burke, 7).

However, following the issuing of Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif anti-terrorist manifesto Rationalizing Jihad in Egypt and the World, he is reported to have "declared on a Web site that he welcomed the rejection of violence as a means of fostering change in the Arab world".

In a television movie based on infamous real events, a well-meaning but compliant nurse named Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) assumes much of the responsibility, rationalizing that the deception is temporary and that the patients' worsening condition gives black doctors a chance to prove they are as able as their white counterparts.

For the right price, most people in power can rationalize anything.

"You have to understand how someone from my position would not think he could be rationalized with."

At that early time the whole thing was so easy to rationalize.

For a while, he played with the thought, not trying to rationalize it.

After a time, perhaps, a choice either way could be rationalized.

And I rationalize that his last months should be free from fear.

No matter how you rationalized it, this was still someone else's body.

He rationalizes that the new world is for the young.

It was something that all five could rationalize themselves into going along with.

Long into the night she tried to rationalize her actions.

But that's just a first, easy step toward rationalizing the financial services industry.

He put his head down and tried to rationalize an appropriate response.

This is just your mind's way of rationalizing my presence.

I put the time to good use by rationalizing my actions.

"And perhaps rationalized to believe that he remained in control."

I never smoke at school in front of my students, she rationalized.

But it is not clear that his political theory could be rationalized.

In a way he could rationalize neither to others nor to himself.

Or was he just trying to rationalize his own sins?

Then she tried to rationalize the execution and did much better.

But rationalizing was a good way to wake up dead.

He would be able to rationalize that there was no time to send help.

That thinking makes it easy to rationalize holding back the tax money a while.

Still, he rationalized, a bowl was exactly what it looked like to him.

"It means less pressure on companies to rationalize their businesses."

These people are trying to rationalise the state of things to themselves.

On the other hand, it is necessary to rationalise the present situation.

I can rationalise a partner getting something better than me.

We have tried to rationalise our procedures in other ways.

In 1986-88 steps were taken to rationalise the use of water resources.

The government must also present its plan to rationalise the judicial system.

"Families will have to seriously rationalise their car use," he says.

Incapable of clear thought, she made no effort to rationalise anything.

No matter how much an intelligent child can rationalise her own experience, the pain will always return.

One that he had used to rationalise his own wish to go anyway.

Later he came to rationalise that, seeing it as part of a family pattern.

We can rationalise and fight our way out, but they are often deeply hurt.

At the same time, the nomenclature of the range was rationalised.

Yes, some elements of this Bill have been amended and rationalised.

That action plan will include measures to rationalise the state aid framework.

Till I almost rationalised any real feeling out of my life altogether.

Our eyes, relying on light, help us to interpret and rationalise the world.

Certainly the process has always been very complex, as a result of historical decisions, and these must eventually be rationalised.

"Within the next thirty years, English spelling will be rationalised."

The point is to change it, not to rationalise it.

This offered the opportunity to rationalise product development, production and marketing.

A dozen times a day he rationalised his thoughts until there were no doubts left.

The number of antibodies required in the panel was therefore rationalised.

The station had four wooden platforms until it was rationalised in 1973.

It has remained this since, though numbering was rationalised around 1896.