Rationale

The rationale behind certain New Age treatments can be dangerously wrong.

The rationale is simple.

Be leery of those who claim someone is non compos mentis and let rationale be your judge.

He fired me and offered a pretextual rationale for the firing.

He had a sound rationale for his suggestion.

In an era when urban growth and suburban sprawl often threaten the natural habitats of America's wildlife, places where birds, animals and plants can safely thrive have become increasingly precious. That is the rationale behind the nation's National Wildlife Refuge System a set of over 500 preserves where the needs of wildlife are given top priority even over human recreation.

The mysteries of love and friendship go beyond scientific rationale.

However, the passage on the money-changers contains remarkably little of what people ascribe to it today. No context or rationale is provided.

He confirmed that Bashir successfully manipulated Diana’s paranoia by showing her brother, Earl Spencer, forged documents that “proved” her closest advisers had betrayed her to the palace, inflaming her desire to speak out for herself. Bashir lied his way to the biggest TV scoop of the 20th century. Dyson’s censure at least gave her two sons some rationale for why Diana did something so destructive to their happiness.

the local bishop, H.E. Gregor Maria Hanke, is shown wearing that rarest of liturgical garments, the rationale.