Sample sentences for RATIONALE

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the reasons for doing or believing something

explain her rationale for proposing the legislation

...an intellectually rigorous and morally lucid speech that balanced the rationale for going to war against the need to build a more peaceful and equitable world.
Joe Klein -- Time, 2009 -- http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/10/a-noble-lecture/ (retrieved 01/14/10)
Is your rationale for the death penalty based on deterrence and/or revenge/justice?
The camerlegno searched his anguished mind for any kind of rationale.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
She wondered whether she was simply going along with Art's rationale, as she had with so many aspects of their relationship.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
She hesitated, conscious that in answering she would be offering a form of defense, a rationale, and that it might enrage him further.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
We now had a rationale and a cause: Justice for Miguel Robles!
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
And with it much of the justification, the rationale for science to do what it does.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Greenberg's rationale was that English was the language of the aviation world.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
He talked to himself to make sure that he remembered his reasoning, to try to avoid too easy a rationale, and for encouragement.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
But their rationale fits perfectly with Dunbar's theories.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
The selection was scarcely based on any statistical, sociological, or scientific rationale.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
For selfish reasons, Eragon disliked the king's edict, but he could understand the rationale behind it; the fight would hardly have been fair otherwise.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
"That's just the rationale, as the French say, of the matter; and so I was telling Mabel, when she ran away and left me.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
I have said enough to convince you that ciphers of this nature are readily soluble, and to give you some insight into the rationale of their development.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
As a form of protest, they did not have a high success rate and the rationale behind them always struck me as quixotic.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
No excuse or rationale necessary.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
Luma didn't explain her rationale.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
Naturally, almost to preserve my reason, I have to think of some rationale to explain her bizarre behavior.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
What was the rationale for fusing science and faith?
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

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