Rational in sentence

726 examples of Rational in a sentence

It can actually be a tool of public manipulation, eroding the very foundation of a free society, which is rational and well-informed citizens.

It's politics that prevents us doing that rather than a rational solution.

So the Rational Decision-Maker will make the rational decision to do something productive, but the Monkey doesn't like that plan, so he actually takes the wheel, and he says, "Actually, let's read the entire Wikipedia page of the Nancy Kerrigan/ Tonya Harding scandal, because I just remembered that that happened.

But I don't like this definition of trust, because it makes trust sound rational and predictable, and it doesn't really get to the human essence of what it enables us to do and how it empowers us to connect with other people.

They can drive much faster and can take any rational initiative that can speed them up or the cars around them.

We train veterans to be fiercely rational, to systematically gauge the actual statistical probability of encountering, say, an IED here in peacetime America.

And so I set out to do the only rational thing that someone would do in such a circumstance: I quit my job and tried to build this audacious dream, a reinvented, rethought religious life which we called "IKAR," which means "the essence" or "the heart of the matter."

It was anti-Semitism, racism, prejudice, parading as rational discourse.

But underneath, it's that same extremism that I found in Holocaust denial parading as rational discourse.

First of all, we cannot be beguiled by rational appearances.

So it needs to understand how rational and sensible the person is.

The more rational the person, the more willing you are to be switched off.

But if every farmer made that individually rational decision, the land will be overrun, and it will be depleted to the detriment of all the farmers, and of course, to the detriment of the sheep.

And by making the individually rational choice of prioritizing their own safety, they may collectively be diminishing the common good, which is minimizing total harm.

Faith isn't rational or emotional.

Also, we're not economic rational agents.

And you have to have rational projections.

Aging is ghastly, but it's inevitable, so, you know, we've got to find some way to put it out of our minds, and it's rational to do anything that we might want to do, to do that.

So, I think the first thing that the blogosphere tells us is that we need to expand our idea of what counts as rational, and we need to expand our simple equation of value equals money, or, you have to pay for it to be good, but that in fact you can end up with collectively really brilliant products without any money at all changing hands.

But sometimes, these thoughts are totally rational.

This problem of shifting comparisons can bedevil our attempts to make rational decisions.

CA: But is there a rational fear that actually, the reason we're frightened about this is because we think that the Big One is to come?

We're designing these kind of coastal additions, so that even if it's modular and rational, each island can be unique with its own coastal landscape.

Now having transformed the world through the sharing of Western wisdom with the rest of the world, the logical and rational response of the West should have been to say, "Hey, we have to adjust and adapt to this new world."

And the logical and rational answer is that you should work with the remaining 88 percent.

You know, is it rational?

And it's the beginning of rational humanism, and people started to believe that creativity came completely from the self of the individual.

Maybe we can't just erase 500 years of rational humanistic thought in one 18 minute speech.

In the repeated patterns of algebraic formulas and geometric shapes, the orbits of the planets, and the harmonious intervals of musical tones, the Neoplatonists saw a rational cosmic force at work.

And the rational thing for a layman to do is to take seriously the prevailing scientific theory.

Related words