rationalizing , also: rationalising BrE

"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.