Rationales

A vulgar pleasure of the “John Wick” series is that it aestheticizes violence without the usual blah-blah rationales and appeals to conscience.

Despite all these positive rationales, there is a persistent challenge hindering enhanced cooperation between the two countries.

Transphobic rationales about "protecting" patients are inaccurate.

But there are other rationales as well.

The group met with the superintendent, principal and board members and drafted plans and rationales for the renaming.

When rationales, justifications and excuses are offered for why this elite lives a better quality of life than the masses, the slippery slope to another cycle of discontent, dissent, conflict and revolution ensues.

India’s successful test that year of its own PNE solidified both public and private rationales; the Indians always intended a weapon, and so did the South Africans.

More critically, Democrats have been selling impeachment for months — and the American public isn't buying it, even with the shifting rationales Democrats have made in arguing for it.

The rationales for power must convince the citizens.

We too are witnessing the fading of the correctionalist and welfarist rationales of the criminal justice intervention and a decline in the rehabilitative idea.

Robert M. Calhoon, "Loyalism and neutrality" in citation Mark Lender explores why ordinary folk became insurgents against the British even though they were unfamiliar with the ideological rationales being offered.

Southern, 160; Treadgold, 20. Diocletian's reforms also increased the number of financial officials in the provinces: more rationales and magistri privatae are attested under Diocletian's reign than before.