Word: rationale
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“We simply wanted to respond to the quite rational feeling that students from these countries would be in a Catch-22—unable to afford to stay in Cambridge, but perhaps unable to return to Cambridge if they went home,” he said.
A problem just as grave as the execution of innocents is that of executing those who should not be eligible for the same punishment as rational adults: the mentally retarded and juvenile offenders. Forty-four mentally retarded convicts have been put to death since 1976, representing 5.2 percent of all...
No, it isn’t any of these things—irritating as they are. What really gets me is that, unlike most of Harvard’s other inequities, the housing arrangement is almost entirely devoid of a legitimate and rational justification.
The book describes a life filled with adventure and decisions that seem simultaneously shocking and perfectly rational, given the writer’s somewhat rebellious personality.
This depiction of the alphabet as cultural symbol is also evident in Thomas More’s Utopia, for which Peter Giles created a simple and rational alphabet befitting of More’s rational kingdom.