adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a logical/rational explanation (= one that is based on facts )
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Physics finally gave us a rational explanation for the atom’s strange behaviour.
intelligent/conscious/rational etc being
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a story about alien beings who invade Earth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Conventional histories of penology tend to represent these developments in penal thought and practice as rational , progressive, scientific and humane.
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The play is more an act of self-immolation masquerading as rational justification.
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Statement E: Racism as rational self interest I think that's absolute nonsense.
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The decision was as rational a move as every other move in Jackie's career.
more
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It was often more rational for the cattle owner to accept the loss, or to take a different course of action.
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It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
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Now would be the time to put the debate on a more rational and realistic basis.
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Elsewhere, the arguments may seem more rational but are equally zealous.
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It is more prudent, more rational and more natural to use organic materials - manures.
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She had a more rational thought.
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But I was thinking that the white man's beliefs are no more rational than the red man's.
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In many ways the underworld of heterosexuality seems no more rational than the free-for-all of homosexual life.
most
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The words people use are too often interpreted literally to signify little more than their immediate and most rational translation.
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The most rational therapy in these conditions is calcium supplementation and vitamin D replacement.
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Hardly the moment when a man is at his most rational .
perfectly
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He was still perfectly rational if you analysed his thought-processes.
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It is perfectly rational for individual banks to want to foreclose early on companies having trouble repaying their loans.
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But they are perfectly rational to the people who were interviewed and to their families.
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At the time he was perfectly rational - he didn't feel schizoid - he was playing a part.
■ NOUN
agent
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Because of this Barro treats as the best prediction that could be made by rational agents of the value of.
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What will the rational agent do?
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In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity, judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends.
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There is a second condition required for a rational agent to be indifferent between equal forward and expected future spot rates.
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Could I in fact have chosen in a manner more worthy of my dignity as a rational agent ?
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The rational agent is a bargain-hunter.
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Human beings are not rational agents .
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But how do rational agents put themselves in a position of being able to anticipate changes in the money stock?
analysis
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It is important not to read Quinn as calling for the destruction of formal corporate planning or rational analysis .
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There is also the fact that in our culture romantic love eludes both rational analysis and individual control.
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To depart substantially from them invites question unless it can be demonstrated that such departure conforms to accepted practice by rational analysis .
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Indeed, some stakeholders may take action to prevent a rational analysis of their stance or at least any debate over it.
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Power relationships affect outcomes, but so does rational analysis .
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Of course, once our schemas are shaken, we may well resort, at least inpart, to rational analysis to reformulate them.
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Finally, our belief systems are not stored in our minds as a complete rational analysis .
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Butin order to arrive at a balanced judgment, a more rational analysis of the factors involved is required.
approach
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Survivors of sudden cardiac death: a rational approach to evaluation and therapy of patients surviving ventricular fibrillation.
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The third and final key element in a rational approach concerns the time-scale of the budget.
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However, despite early adoption there have been considerable doubts as to the effectiveness of such rational approaches .
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Despite these criticisms, recent approaches to decision making have sought to pursue the rational approach.
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Adhoc arrangements of this nature are far from a rational approach towards planning an appropriate budget.
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However, it is difficult to say that it is a rational approach .
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Political approaches Because of the criticisms of rational approaches discussed above, political budgetary approaches show a remarkable capacity to persist.
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The formula framework promises a rational approach but, in fact, the contrary may be the case.
argument
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Its conclusions repeated a long-standing cry: Social vision and a collective determination was added to the rational argument of Barlow.
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Logical deals are killed, rational arguments are shouted down, ambitious engineers are demoralized.
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Nuclear weapons are so inherently absurd that rational argument about their use is scarcely possible.
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I'd never set much store by rational argument where Karen was concerned.
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The banning of the ordeal symbolized a triumph for rational argument over the old magical formulas.
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He told himself that it was late, the end of a busy day, the worst possible time for rational argument .
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Often the interaction between interest groups has consisted largely of assertion not fully supported by objective data or rational argument .
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The faithful went on believing despite all rational argument .
basis
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Within those areas covered by the rational basis part of the test there would be greater certainty.
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Authority is rarely delegated on a rational basis .
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A criterion of reasonableness or rational basis is obviously a narrower standard of review.
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That commitment can waver or disappear if the arguments of the philosopher or the historian appear to destroy its rational basis .
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Business planning also provides a rational basis for measuring performance and helps managers to work as a team.
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Not withstanding this, any regulatory policy should have a rational basis .
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But it is hardly a rational basis for a business decision.
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It would however be misleading to say that the United States courts have always utilised the rational basis test.
being
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In turn, this presupposes treating the other as a person, as, at least partly, a rational being .
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It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.
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So indeterminism is a necessary condition of the later development of morally important freedom in rational beings .
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I am not convinced that the principle of natural selection alone makes the emergence of rational beings probable.
choice
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Economics assumes that consumers are perfectly knowledgeable and make rational choices .
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Meader found that by any standard, even if one disagrees with their decisions, voters exercised informed judgment and rational choices .
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Economically this is still a rational choice .
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Politics is a matter of gambles, not a domain of rational choice .
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Nor are subjective meanings or rational choices independent of public social rules for doing the right or rational thing.
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The project explores the foundations of rational choice theory, probing the limitations of this theory and developing new approaches.
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Or, conversely, do alleged causes finally need to make sense in a system of rules and rational choices ?
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In their portrayal, delinquency is seen as a natural and rational choice for residents of these areas.
decision
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What this discussion reveals is the difficulty that the consumer faces in making a rational decision when it comes to sport.
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It was a very sensible, rational decision at the time.
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The purpose of evaluation is to collect and analyse information that can be used for rational decision making.
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Of course, making a rational decision about when to have children is asking a great deal of lovers.
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What would a rational decision to live in Bali be like, if this is not one?
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If it has been a long hot summer, I become too weak to make rational decisions , to change channels.
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They are all angry, they are desolate, but they have made a rational decision not to be bitter.
discussion
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But a rational discussion with the young Pardy was not something easily achieved.
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These are ideas that replicate because of psychological needs, not because of rational discussions .
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A more rational discussion could do much to change public opinion.
expectations
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It was this criticism of the adaptive expectations hypothesis that led to the development of the rational expectations hypothesis.
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The aggregate supply curve slope can be explained along rational expectations lines due to misperceptions of prices.
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The restrictions generated by rational expectations models are very often non-linear and are also imposed across equations rather than in a single equation.
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Possession of such direct observations on expectations would allow us to test the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis in two ways.
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This is where the theory of rational expectations emerges once again.
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The market efficiency hypothesis states that the market behaves as if traders possessed rational expectations .
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Therefore the rational expectations hypothesis suggests a valid method of incorporating additional information when estimating macroeconomic models which contain expectation terms.
explanation
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Only now have scientists begun to offer rational explanations for this phenomenon.
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Through their various plights, the drama questions a world where feminine ideals regularly defy rational explanation .
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This is the mystery of sin which has no rational explanation , for it is ultimately and radically inexplicable.
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Either way, there has to be some rational explanation of Clinton's conduct.
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There was a rational explanation for all this and, when Carol arrived, he'd discover what it was.
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I told myself that there must be some simple, rational explanation , something Illingworth had overlooked.
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In any case, Amiss's mind was racing, grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation .
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Some constructs may reflect pre-verbal bases of organization which can not be accounted for by rational explanation .
man
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All such considerations pointed rational men to peace.
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Culture was where rational men were free to think and to act and to play public roles.
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It is now time to call attention to an incongruity in the conception of the rational man from which this chapter started.
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He was a rational man and a police officer, but No. 22 seemed obstinately to be producing its own evidence.
mind
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Taking care to avoid certain members of his household ... So the rational mind lays its rational plans.
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They need to provide the factual knowledge and the reasoning skills that a rational mind requires.
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She has a very logical, rational mind when it comes to a problem.
model
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Planning and the rational model fell into disrepute in the mid to late 1970s for a number of reasons.
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As we indicated above, the rational model may generate untried solutions.
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As we saw above, there are limitations with the rational model as a method of solving problems.
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Second, political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand.
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The practical critics of scientific management Point to the impossibility of meeting the strict demands of the rational model of decision-making.
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Even the apparently rational model of planning on page 42 is, nevertheless, subject to political pressures.
person
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Exactly how a rational person will solve it we shall show later on.
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Nevertheless, this holiday buying season still offers more new classical titles than any rational person could wish for.
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With every actor reasoning in the same way, however, no narrowly rational person will participate.
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Nor had she wanted stepmother status any more than any rational person might.
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The mental stance the rational person seeks to organize in this way includes both beliefs and attitudes.
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Is there a way to restructure the traditional feminine economy so that an economically rational person could choose the caretaking roles?
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The rational person cares about truth and is disposed to seek it.
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What is needed to counter it is the simple reflection that there are some things that every rational person desires and values.
planning
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Doubts about the importance of formal rational planning in organizations grew during the 1970s and 1980s.
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A moderate reform of capitalism could, it was argued, be effected through a rational planning programme.
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Any system of rational planning must take account of, and answer, two questions.
response
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If so, the only rational response is plain disbelief.
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One fragment of her mind reeled in shock but a rational response formed even as the connection spun its thread: Of course.
thought
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One of the strands of that concept is that even rational thought may not be just what it seems on the surface.
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Many people insist that most of their political knowledge is based on their own rational thought processes.
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We are capable of rational thought and of bringing change.
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Even rational thought will not necessarily enable people to agree on political facts.
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Purism was an exercise in reason and even the Dadaists arrived at their apparent absurdities by a process of rational thought .
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She had a more rational thought .
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What the ventriloquist's voice and the puppeteer's hands are to the puppet, presuppositions are to rational thought .
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An individual can rely on her own rational thought as a means for deciding that something is correct.
way
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We will seek fairer and more rational ways of determining public sector pay within clearly defined budget limits.
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Rational thought was the product of rational ways of organizing industry.
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Have we ever figured out a rational way to explain and triage which drugs should be banned for which reasons?
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By that age there is no rational way to disentangle what has been inherited from what has been learned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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rational behavior
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Education helps us to make rational decisions.
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How can a rational man be taken in by these arguments?
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Let's try and discuss this like two rational human beings.
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Many of the patients have long histories of drug abuse, and they're not always rational .
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No rational person would have agreed to those terms.
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People's behaviour isn't always purely rational .
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Taking action to defend yourself is a completely rational reaction if you're being attacked.
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There appears to be no rational motive for the attack.
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There is no rational explanation for Melanie Hawkin's disappearance.
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There must be some rational explanation for this apparently bizarre phenomenon.
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We're looking for someone with a rational approach to dealing with problems.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Consequently rational members of organizations are more likely to stay loyal and inactive than to be vocal participants.
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Exactly how a rational person will solve it we shall show later on.
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From a rational choice perspective, you would be rather foolish to vote in a presidential election.
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It should be seen as seven functional stages of the budgetary process which take place in a political or rational context.
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Should they, then, be branded as spurious designators and banished from rational discourse?
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Such beliefs serve to explain the system to its members: they make social inequality appear rational and reasonable.
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The talk was lively and, compared to Morrison's drivel, refreshingly rational .