They are intelligent and can rationalize staying together just as much as they can rationalize breaking up.
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You can rationalize things that have never before been rationalized.
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And it can cause us to rationalize the logically absurd.
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They are looking to rationalize toolsets and add very selectively.
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You can rationalize death a lot due to the circumstances.
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I tend to rationalize purchases like these in this manner.
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"It's not really hard to rationalize," said BNY Mellon's Mellor.
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We knew that would rationalize over some period of time.
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Rationalize all you want, but this time is not different.
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She is as quick to rationalize her propensity for mythmaking.
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The FDA has recently taken steps to rationalize its process.
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But nevertheless I have to be able to rationalize it.
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They rationalize it, ideologically, perhaps better than any other entertainment form.
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The Republican spin machine is working overtime to rationalize this behavior.
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So like, how do you rationalize the tones, the multiple tones.
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Unfortunately, being visionary can easily seduce founders to rationalize away reality.
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How can our experiences and physical life rationalize the material world?
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The president's supposed overseers instead rationalize and deny his bullying away.
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We must not normalize or rationalize hateful, cruel and demeaning behavior.
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The fear of being emasculated leads men to rationalize awful behavior.
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When are we going to stop trying to rationalize the irrational?
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"I can't rationalize my thinking because I wasn't thinking," he said.
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Now, if you had amnesia, this booking would be difficult to rationalize.
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And she is in the business so how do you rationalize that?
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If you want me to rationalize or justify it, I can not.
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Data actually helps you to rationalize but you need to be intuitive.
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It's a really good way for them to rationalize what they're doing.
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I rationalize it by telling myself I worked it off in yoga.
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At that price point, it wasn't hard to rationalize picking one up.
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I tried to rationalize with him, to convince him he was mistaken.
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"It doesn't work to rationalize about these numbers not mattering," Cramer argued.
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It was easy to rationalize going, because I felt like a spy.
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If you want me to rationalize it or justify it, I cannot.
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Accept it, and don't deny it or rationalize it as something else.
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The world is full of spontaneous gifts you can't control or rationalize.
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He then allegedly tried to rationalize his decision to kill the neighbors.
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Republicans in Congress tried once again to rationalize the president's irrational behavior.
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But no explanation can rationalize turning your own children into suicidal jihadists.
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Many CEOs will rationalize their career decisions in the moment, Drath noted.
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She attempts to rationalize it by analogizing impeachment to a court case.
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COOPERMAN: Mistake, it's an insurance policy – they rationalize it anyway they want.
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For surfers, rooting for hurricane swell may be increasingly difficult to rationalize.
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With a "proof of value" business leaders can rationalize and prioritize technology investments.
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Don't filter out or rationalize away negative information about a partner or relationship.
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So don't judge your grief, or try to rationalize your way around it.
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She added that the company is trying to rationalize its portfolio of products.
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In the way it's sometimes been twisted, to rationalize bullying and oppression, yes.
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In a state of psychosis, this inability to rationalize can have dangerous consequences.
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Some were even able to rationalize Rizin's choosing Singh as Fedor's comeback opponent.
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They rationalize the president's authority to address the emergency with Washington's awesome resources.
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When someone really believes this, they can rationalize all kinds of destructive behavior.
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You don't successfully rationalize your own tawdriness by claiming your opponents are satanic.
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We think like primates; we make very simple models to rationalize very complicated realities.
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Cramer said he doesn't know how Eisman can "understand or can rationalize" his assessment.
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But he criticized the report for at times attempting to rationalize the doctor's misconduct.
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Practice your ability to rationalize your argument by advocating for it with your stakeholders.
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Even if you can rationalize your away around that, it's still an impossible twist.
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Some people, primarily fans of Trump, excuse or rationalize the lies for various reasons.
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"In my waking life, I could rationalize that that would never happen," he says.
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Even if they did, they could rationalize those consequences as outside of their control.
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"Greed can get people to rationalize pretty bad behavior," Andrew Kolodny had told me.
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Ali was petulant afterward and tried to rationalize why he had called Frazier ignorant.
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Chris Christie cannot rationalize Mr. Trump's unrelenting attack on Gold Star Pakistani-American parents.
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They continually rationalize why the way they are is OK, even though it's not.
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It doesn't help that Democratic leaders have attempted to rationalize and protect this individual.
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How do you rationalize a cut given all that great news you just said?
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His supporters can rationalize his methods, but they can't invent results that don't exist.
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If numbers were everything, it would be easier to absorb and rationalize those bumps.
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Banks can just rationalize any mild hit as a campaign contribution by another name.
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They rationalize that Trump's indulgence of certain religious factions absolves him of his sins.
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Creating them cannot be conveniently classified as "conduct, not expression" to rationalize state coercion.
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Post-factum statements meant to rationalize police violence are an old dance, of course.
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Because you can use them to rationalize or "prove," so to speak, their racial thinking.
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Do we really need to explain, rationalize and lend science to the newest fidget toy?
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Rationalize that the problems don't exist and you'll just be another depressing startup post-mortem.
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I'm saying, not that Trump is a rational actor, but that reality will rationalize him.
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And we still need a powerful metaphor like the marketplace to rationalize and support it.
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"The thing with suicide is that you can never rationalize an irrational choice," Boudreau says.
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Scrolling through the images, however, it's easy to rationalize possible deeper meanings for these posts.
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First of all, if there's something you do, you're going to try and rationalize it.
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Sometimes things make perfect sense and it's easy to rationalize why we've fallen for someone.
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And maybe I&aposm just trying to rationalize it, but I&aposm a huge fan.
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But just because you can rationalize a decision doesn't make it right, or even smart.
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I thought it was a drone for a second because I try to rationalize everything.
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As we age, people tend to rationalize unfairness, or become comfortable with the status quo.
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I did ask Mr. Malone as well, when he thinks things will start to rationalize.
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Adelson almost certainly won't be the last prominent Republican to rationalize supporting Trump like this.
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Knowing where they're coming from and being able to rationalize that will help deepen your empathy.
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"You evoke 22011/21 to rationalize everything from domestic plunder to imperialist aggression worldwide," said Glick.
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I think she's trying to rationalize within her own mind and fight her own battles: why?
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As the number of charging stations increases, it's easier for potential buyers to rationalize a purchase.
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In the piece, Stephens seemed to rationalize skepticism about climate change and its potentially dire outcomes.
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I'm sure I'll rationalize the purchase of an AI-driven personal assistant in the same way.
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" Dig deeper into how you're feeling, advises Major: "Work out what's worrying you and rationalize it.
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"I can't rationalize my thinking because I wasn't thinking and that's my own fault," he said.
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The state techniques, media practices, and political ideologies help to rationalize and keep these events invisible.
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If Slate reports that Clinton is winning, Clinton supporters will use that to rationalize winning big.
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And make no mistake, the mass market is necessary to rationalize Tesla's huge $46 billion valuation.
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Without limits, Clausewitz argued, theory could be misused to justify and rationalize the unjust and irrational.
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But it will be more difficult, if not impossible, to rationalize that curious arrangement after Brexit.
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To start, it was eerie in the sense that I couldn't rationalize what I was seeing.
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Over 10 days, officials have struggled to rationalize the decision that risked a war with Iran.
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Academy voters sometimes use technical virtuosity — as well as genre and "seriousness" — to rationalize their choices.
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This fellow may rationalize his repeated calling by telling himself that you're not getting his messages.
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And I'm not saying that's okay, I'm just saying I'm trying to rationalize where he's at.
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The progressive left, in Britain and beyond, may choose to ignore, downplay, or rationalize this. Fine.
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Not necessarily to rationalize it, to make it something formal, but more in terms of general culture.
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Especially when you're a smart person who can rationalize just about anything on the Internet as research.
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So a 'melt down' scenario is somehow easier to visualize and rationalize than a 'melt up' scenario.
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"You could rationalize that it helps the Russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible," Clapper said. 3.
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If I feel certain emotions coming at me, I try to rationalize it and push it away.
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By using the past to rationalize the present, we are permitting the cycle of violence to continue.
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Sometimes I was able to rationalize that my role in the outcome of these cases was minimal.
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Tropical Cyclones are one of them and we occasionally rationalize away the fickle characteristics of Mother Nature.
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If Slate reports the election is tight, people will use that to rationalize their decision to vote.
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They rationalize that, since the opposition is so evil, anything that serves their career serves the country.
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They put profit first, trust in crazed markets and even rationalize dumping toxic waste on poor countries.
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Until it actually happened, however, they neither truly believed it nor were able to rationalize with it.
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I think we need to rationalize corporate taxation and I think that that will include lowering it.
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I keep myself so busy that I cannot rationalize spending two hours a day at the gym.
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I attempted to rationalize: As a white, cisgendered, middle class woman, how broken could I really be?
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Since then, Zakaria has said FGV will rationalize its operations to address its "structural and financial issues".
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And if you squint at it, you can rationalize putting $1 billion or more into BAM Tech.
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"I just couldn't rationalize it," Lee said of letting Danny play tackle football at a young age.
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Protesters' demands are attempts to rationalize outrageous behavior, like an ugly, foolish child bargaining with his parent.
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Most of this break was spent congratulating myself on how I can apparently rationalize just about anything.
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It's difficult for even supporters of the bank to rationalize and defend this sort of abhorrent behavior.
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" Romero said the First Amendment cannot be used as "sword or shield to justify or rationalize violence.
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I'd want to ask her how she was able to rationalize putting the public health in jeopardy.
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Coughing up cash may strengthen the commitment to quitting, since users have a financial cost to rationalize.
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"There are times when somebody might be doing this to rationalize getting out of [a relationship]," he says.
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Some of the items, though, were still too expensive for too little clothing for me to rationalize buying.
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Today, we struggle to rationalize Peter Thiel's power and influence as he moves further and further out there.
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Men rationalize cheating all the time but to see women do it had a lot of men shook.
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And no matter how astronomically priced that investment became, we continued to rationalize it as a worthwhile one.
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To rationalize the deaths of many "foreigners," the West conveniently categorized the people they were fighting as homogenous.
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Sometimes the mind that is trying to rationalize all the ramifications needs to give way to the gut.
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I began to play that game in my head, trying to rationalize whether it was OK to leave.
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And a diehard Trump supporter could rationalize the purchase of these masks as a great protest against globalization.
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It's a way to rationalize clinging even more vehemently to a ruinous, oligarchic status quo—democracy be damned.
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One or two of them rationalize assault weapons the same way I justify what sits by my bed.
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The smaller stores mark the latest attempt by Sears to rationalize floor space as shopping increasingly shifts online.
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He urged measures to rationalize spending, reduce public debt and combat corruption and wastefulness, but without giving specifics.
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There's a reason people tend to instinctively rationalize or have self-protective thoughts after they've made a mistake.
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They rationalize that the means- justify-the-ends, even when the end looks eerily similar to the beginning.
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Perhaps the difference this time is it's harder for his supporters to rationalize that Trump was just joking.
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Meanwhile, some Trump loyalists rationalize his mood as an understandable swing after the rigors of the campaign trail.
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A fourth is to incentivize owners to rationalize the pay differential between the highest and lowest paid employees.
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Individual people hold conflicting views about politics that they try to rationalize, but people make regular cognitive errors.
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So Republicans who privately bemoan the president's recklessness are content to rationalize, wring their hands and do nothing.
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They rationalize that she is at least better than Trump, whose glaring deficiencies are enhancing her electability daily.
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The foolhardy logic I use to rationalize my commitment to her will no doubt worsen my inevitable heartbreak.
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When his reflection suddenly disappears from a nighttime window in the remote house, he strains to rationalize it.
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What do the words "history" and "heritage" mean to these people who use them to rationalize their protests?
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Sometimes, as with Elizabeth — the more militant of the couple — the impulse will be to defend and rationalize.
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It's harder to rationalize spending time, money, and resources on enhancing games that are no longer big sellers.
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I managed to rationalize away reading about it — but in hindsight, of course I was breaking my Trumpcation rules.
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But that worldview will not change, and it means many people will continue to rationalize a very tight relationship.
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We rationalize this uncomfortable truth because smart technology does have the potential to make life easier and, perhaps, safer.
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It's easiest for me to rationalize skipping these elaborate destination weekends when I'm a member of the bridal party.
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A trade war is really not about trade war because if it's about numbers, numerically you can rationalize it.
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Brands can rationalize this in a marketing budget and get early mover visibility for whatever they're trying to promote.
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And if it's okay for the boss to cheat a little, it's easy for subordinates to rationalize similar behavior.
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Shares are now down just 4% from initial trading prices as the industry continues to, you guessed it, rationalize.
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It happens when founders rationalize problems until it's too late and put off dealing with their most profound challenges.
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Amy Schumer made the mistake of trying to rationalize with some passionate Trump supporters, and it didn't end well.
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"We have to find a way to rationalize the cost of hospital care," NPPA Chairman Bhupendra Singh told Reuters.
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Sling/Dish used to rationalize this pitch by arguing that they were going after other people's pay TV customers.
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There is no way for the justices to rationalize capital punishment — not in Mr. Buck's case, or any other.
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In recent interviews, she has struggled to at once criticize and rationalize some of Mr. Trump's more outrageous behavior.
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They will do so simply to make a quick buck, and they will find ways to rationalize the indefensible.
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"Because that's how bad Hillary Clinton is," Mr. Rubio said when asked Friday how he could rationalize his position.
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There are two main arguments used to rationalize the destruction of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil production.
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It is much harder to rationalize having the students spread over so many campuses that are individually too small.
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A fourth investor, invested in both the UK and Dutch shares, said it made sense to rationalize the headquarters.
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We all want to eat the best food we possibly can, but sometimes it's hard to rationalize the price.
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Because, again, that's one of the things you don't necessarily rationalize when you're a gamer, but you feel it.
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While I check my bank account, I consider another way to rationalize buying maternity that Serota brings up: seasonality.
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Policymakers who are willing to concede the economic argument call upon another popular Washington trope to rationalize problematic sales.
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After her powers first manifest, Syd tries to rationalize it: "It's probably just puberty," she says in a voiceover.
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"When you are in such a tough market, you start to rationalize things that are pretty crazy," she said.
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As our reality and expectations continued to diverge, so did the various ways we tried to rationalize the disconnect.
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If we can pinpoint just one cause of tragedies such as this, our minds can begin to rationalize them.
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"You don't want to be the bad guy, so you kind of rationalize it in your head," Hegewisch said.
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It is an unrelenting study on the human ability to rationalize evil behavior in the name of self-preservation.
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The question that obsesses the survey's authors is whether there are abuses so severe that even partisans won't rationalize them.
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Here's Mosseri, for example: I don't understand how one can rationalize censorship, no matter how wrong or evil the message.
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Could a New York-based outfit find enough seed-stage, enterprise-focused, East Coast opportunities to rationalize a bigger fund?
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That Kindly Care provides payroll and other back office functions presumably help many families, and caregivers, rationalize the cost, too.
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Peterson's book has numerous sections which I would characterize as sexist because they naturalize and rationalize a patriarchal social order.
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In a lot of ways, the id's urges do control our actions, though we rationalize them in more civilized terms.
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"It's always easy to rationalize those deaths away, but they may be a harbinger of things to come," he says.
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Politicians often make too much of poisoned wells to rationalize counterproductive obstruction, but poison was the quintessence of Trump's appeal.
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Lawyers, by contrast, have found ways to rationalize this, invoking fancy legal arguments that defy common sense and basic fairness.
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Letter from Washington A number of Republicans rationalize Donald J. Trump's proposals on immigration and trade as just political show.
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Without these limits, the government could rationalize just about any labeling requirement, thereby running roughshod over business's First Amendment rights.
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"This isn't simply a problem of disparate right-wing groups being able to rationalize their existence more easily," Cobb wrote.
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It shows you the lengths Mr. Trump's supporters will go to in order to rationalize their enthusiastic support of him.
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Congress has the opportunity to rationalize our criminal justice policies and reform sentencing for individuals who pose the least risk.
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I know I cannot rationalize why we are paying so much for the drugs to therefore give to our members.
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"Doctors soon realized...they could give hormones to smooth out and rationalize the variations in a woman's body," Langston writes.
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It's hard to rationalize New York's mindset without assuming they're abnormally confident in their ability to land two major stars.
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Voters who are hungry for female leadership won't be forced to rationalize away the flaws of a lone woman contender.
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And in this particular instance, there was no evidence of wrongdoing that might rationalize the opening of such an inquiry.
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Along the way, Yang shows how those conflicts impact the people involved, and how they rationalize what they're fighting for.
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They might try to rationalize their conduct as protected by the First and Second Amendments, but let's not be fooled.
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Remember how it felt to rationalize your behavior and pinpoint that feeling as cognitive dissonance the next time it happens.
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A: We went into the other room, I was just trying to like rationalize it in my head, you know.
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That was enough to rationalize a purchase price of $21,750,000, and in September 2018, the St. Francis Center paid it.
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Second, it distorts the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion to rationalize this presidential legislating and to grant a de facto amnesty.
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The current intense competition will likely rationalize over the next few years due to continued consolidation and listings of private peers.
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It is so impossibly difficult to rationalize how someone could find this remotely close to humor, wit, or an original idea.
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Analysts across the board tend to give CHAI and the Clinton Foundation credit for its role in helping rationalize the market.
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They're just likely frightened parents trying to figure out what happened to their daughter and trying to rationalize this freak occurrence.
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If I don't have a chance to rationalize the fear, then my breathing becomes aggressively short and my body starts convulsing.
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What's happening here is quite common: we generalize from very few data points and create narratives to rationalize what we see.
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"That's how he's been for the last three years," Kim says, trying to explain or rationalize or just empathize with Chyna.
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That's a long walk to rationalize a merger that would cost Amazon $28 billion and would be its largest ever acquisition.
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The suit alleges Mader's termination was used to defend and rationalize the deadly force used by the officer who shot Williams.
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Investor SoftBank Group could help rationalize the U.S. food delivery market where it has also invested in DoorDash, the industry leader.
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Along those lines we have to ask how vision — art itself — is used to rationalize and perpetuate racism, inadvertently or not.
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Politics like this are toxic and unhealthy and hurting our effort to move forward and better rationalize the cost delivery systems.
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In particular, he said, he's learning how to rationalize with men who will reject their wives rather than welcoming them back.
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Our biggest weakness is ... I say this about Google, it's like, "Smart people can convince themselves of anything," can rationalize anything.
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Your goal is not to excuse their behavior, but rather, to help you rationalize where they could have been coming from.
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Democrats sharply criticized Mr. Rosenstein, accusing him of helping to create a cover story for the president to rationalize the termination.
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But let's rationalize a bit — how many people are actually shopping for a TV that costs as much as a car?
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After some levity, Wilmore makes a powerful point about the way society tries to rationalize the irrationality of deaths like Sterling's.
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"In my experience, the Chinese project, rationalize and then minimize," Mr. Stengel said, explaining that senior Chinese officials denied any problems.
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It was going to be the only choice all along, but I'd spent so many days trying to rationalize the trip.
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The pull to rationalize is made stronger by the fact that the president doesn't allow for nuance in the Republican ranks.
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When it comes to worrying about the relationship itself, Solomon warns that we often concoct false narratives to rationalize our fears.
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In a highly humorous attempt to rationalize the aging process and not working out, DADBODS are supposedly the new six-packs.
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Trump has a point about U.N. overreach in recent years with ideas like "right to protect" that can rationalize military interventions.
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Many people in the wine industry rationalize that these are gateway bottles, wines for people who have little experience with wine.
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On my worst days, I rationalize that I went through that terror so I might be able to help someone else.
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He doesn't even have the professional competency to rationalize even the most unscrupulous of agents keeping him on as a client.
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The chupacabra is a way indigenous people of the western hemisphere have come to rationalize military and paramilitary activity, science and technology.
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On Wednesday, he again used his Twitter account to rationalize and explain away his loss to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote.
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The difference between these two plays is so minute that attempting to rationalize the referee's decision would almost certainly be headache inducing.
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It was never a lot of blood, and in my relative ignorance about my body, I could easily rationalize any fear away.
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Despite this, Silicon Valley tech companies have shown a willingness to put aside their idealism — or rationalize their decisions to court Beijing.
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ET. Weaker-than-expected job growth could be the lever the Fed needs to rationalize an interest rate cut later this month.
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This poor return is upsetting, but growth is the mantra and Fuego's executives and investors rationalize that this can be fixed later.
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I can even rationalize my Perot vote as strategically useful, prodding Clinton into being a tax raiser instead of a tax cutter.
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Trump's next step Trump's decision to rationalize rather than deny his racist approach hints at a more sinister aspect of his strategy.
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All of which is really just an elaborate, if feeble, attempt to try to rationalize Kylie Jenner's choice in fur-accented apparel.
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These tires make me feel like I'm driving on clouds, or at least that's what I tell myself to rationalize the expense.
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There, I realized: people often think they're making logical decisions; in reality, they make emotional decisions and try to rationalize with logic.
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The lawsuit cites studies showing trauma can effectively rewire a child's brain, making it hard for them to concentrate, memorize, or rationalize.
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When negative partisanship is strong, Republicans are willing to believe the worst about Democrats — and rationalize away any sins committed by Republicans.
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And you rationalize it within yourself … but it's mystifying, the idea of somebody being cruel for the sake of attention, I guess?
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It's easy to rationalize things when it makes lots of money and your social circle, supporting your family etc depends on it.
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HOW DO WE RATIONALIZE SOMETHING THAT YOU TAUGHT ME, WHICH IS IF YOU PUT TARIFFS IN THE WAY, THEN WORLD GROWTH SLOWS.
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Under that bizarre logic, he could rationalize ruling out judges from every demographic group he has insulted or happens not to like.
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Too often, they deride reason as a Eurocentric creation used to rationalize the existence of colonialism, slavery and genocide of native peoples.
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Some are describing these actions as perpetuating a modern form of colonialism, while others continue to rationalize and legitimize the pipeline construction.
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"I cannot rationalize how much we're paying for drugs," Tyson told CNBC's "Squawk Box" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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When speaking of black victims of violence, he will try to rationalize it using every indiscretion the victim has made since adolescence.
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He can lie in public proclamations, and the Republican cowards in Congress will find a way to defend, rationalize or forgive it.
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When you get out of that line of work, the need to maximize efficiency, rationalize effort, raise productivity, modernize relentlessly, is diminished.
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In my defense, it's so much easier to rationalize and diminish why your needs aren't being met when you're falling for someone.
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It's also a habit that's easy to rationalize, since a chance to play typically only sets you back a buck or two.
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Deepak Ahuja, Tesla's chief financial officer, said the company might be able to spend less as it attempts to rationalize its production.
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These are the children who grow up able to engage in elongated speech codes, where they learn to rationalize and give reasons.
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Despite this, Silicon Valley tech companies have shown a willingness to put aside their idealism or rationalize their decisions to court Beijing.
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Time and again, Trump's pet outlets find a way to rationalize the president's claims, even claims as apparently baseless as the wiretapping conspiracy.
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But since there's only so many $65 pairs of sweatpants for four-year-olds I can rationalize, here are my ten favorite pieces.
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Afterwards, there are a few people who 'get' the prank and can rationalize it as an artistic language, making them feel less alone.
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The great hope of Bernie Sanders's candidacy is that it might help rationalize American politics by pulling that center back where it belongs.
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"They rationalize it by saying that the animals are going to be slaughtered anyways, but that's the wrong attitude to take," she said.
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Imagine a man opposing everything that president stands for, and who can now more easily rationalize taking illegal measures to undermine that president.
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As the incredible savings in human lives becomes clear, it will become more difficult to rationalize allowing human beings on the open road.
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For France, Gaspar said "the first priority" should be for the government to focus on public expenditure — to "rationalize" the public expenditure side.
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His slight intrusions of pale color offer instead a way to rationalize the totalizing effects of the brutality to which he was witness.
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Usually, it's understandable that people try to rationalize their behavior when they screw up—but sexual assault is far from your average mistake.
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It makes the deed easier to rationalize, both in the moment and in the seconds, hours, years to come after it is done.
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However, with yields on Treasury securities at historically low rates, investors can rationalize paying a higher multiple of earnings for blue chip stocks.
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Barr often appeared to excuse or rationalize Trump's conduct, asserting that the president may not necessarily have been trying to derail Mueller's investigation.
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BAC continues to drive efficiencies across all of its businesses, and in the consumer segment this includes continuing to rationalize its branch footprint.
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They find it difficult to comprehend how a modern society that only recently voted for marriage equality could rationalize such a callous system.
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Sadly, lots of writers, including some prominent ones, rationalize little or no pay as the inevitable cost of "making it" in the business.
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I do mind when they rationalize and excuse bad acts out of a completely misguided and faithless sense of cultural and political necessity.
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Everyone in the industry seems to rationalize it by shifting the blame, assuming way too much cognizance on the part of their victims.
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Rogers said he began to attempt to rationalize the deal with Gates but stopped when Welch kicked Rogers under the board room table.
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In some respects, a slowdown might help the Big Three better rationalize US capacity, idling some plants that are running at about 30%.
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Kendi meticulously tracks how those concepts arrived in America and evolved over time to rationalize racist policies like segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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This trend has arisen largely as an attempt to rationalize various forms of inequality, often in terms of an "oppression" or "victimhood" narrative.
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On opening night back in October, with Kyle Kuzma and Rondo out injured, it was easier for the Lakers to rationalize their defeat.
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Little details — like the fact that Mr. Simmons called in to "Today" instead of appearing on video — are used to rationalize the project.
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Others rationalize that the emergency declaration, while outrageous, may be technically legal, and thus should be left to the courts to sort out.
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Online, hard leftists increasingly discuss politics in dire terms, and rationalize violence as a necessity— even the true inheritor of traditional progressive activism.
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Lottery reform can't guarantee they land a marquee talent, but it does rationalize the path they're on and the strategy they've been committed to.
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During this week's campaign swings, Bloomberg called the old "stop-and-frisk" policy his worst mistake as mayor, making no attempt to rationalize it.
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We routinely procrastinate, make poor investments, waste time, fumble important decisions, avoid problems and rationalize our unproductive behaviors, like checking Facebook instead of working.
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Campaigns are chaotic, they were amateurs, and when you feel the other side has every advantage, it's easy to rationalize your actions in response.
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All denials, all lies and she stole an election, and she says there is a difference between the dossier she funded, rationalize propaganda, misinformation.
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Still, Lena cannot rationalize why her husband entered the Shimmer, and why he chose not to tell her of the nature of the journey.
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It would also give it more opportunity to digest and rationalize the assets it has bought using often complex bank borrowing and debt arrangements.
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With a potential windfall like that, it's easy to rationalize throwing down $2 for a ticket and a shot at a life of leisure.
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In 1781, Thomas Jefferson, who had written that wonderful phrase about equality into the Declaration of Independence, attempted to rationalize his and our hypocrisy.
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Since each generation of Jewish scholars must study, interpret, and re-rationalize the law for their own times, cherem is not a stable category.
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The people I had spent the better part of a decade covering surprised even me with their callous ability to rationalize a person's death.
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That may mean our lies are not always deliberate, or we may rationalize our falsehoods by believing they relate only to small, insignificant matters.
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Each decision offers a trade-off, both in terms of repercussions in the game and how you're able to rationalize your choice outside of.
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More generally, though, there is no way conventional financial analysis can help any company rationalize an acquisition of the purveyor of 140-character messages.
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When the headache wouldn't go away, Reed, who later admitted he had initially hidden the injury from Redskins doctors, tried to rationalize it away.
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After the loss, center Frans Nielsen emphasized that injuries were always part of the game but could not be used to rationalize poor play.
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Ralph Northam attempted on Saturday to rationalize his decision to not step down after a racist photo surfaced from his medical school yearbook page.
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We dismissed Howard Dean at first, then sought to rationalize his popularity, then missed the fact that John Kerry was somehow winning the nomination.
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Mr. Rosenstein cited the handling of the Clinton case in a memo the White House used to rationalize Mr. Trump's firing of Mr. Comey.
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The dreaded reminder pops up on my phone: A friend (more of an acquaintance, really, I rationalize) is having a birthday party later tonight.
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And when you see people as something less than, well, people you can rationalize treating them in ways that no person should be treated.
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"We have decided to rationalize our U.S. oil and gas investment banking coverage footprint which will include closing our Houston office," the memo said.
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They can rationalize it this way: They passed a bill in 2017 (even if the Senate didn't), yet voters still kept them in power.
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It didn't matter that advocates of the deal could rationalize the economics with future gains from the jobs and community benefits Amazon would provide.
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To listen means not to patronize Trump supporters and Brexit voters and Sanders fans, and not to rationalize away their pain, pride, hope or anger.
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Cook also attempted to rationalize spending $1,000 on a slightly more sophisticated rectangle by comparing it to the purchase of a fancy cup of coffee.
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The exhibition concept examines how visual and legal hegemonies are constructed over time and how these hegemonies rationalize sex, gender, and race as a result.
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More inflation, in the 2 percent range, has been something the Federal Reserve has been looking for in order to rationalize another interest rate hike.
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Understanding all of these biological curiosities, and the way our brains rationalize a sense of "sameness" will be crucial to recognizing AI when it arrives.
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" Cerf initially said he had "no idea" why this was done and then speculated that it may have been "an effort to rationalize the databases.
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Porat didn't explain exactly how Google intends to "rationalize" its lofty projects, but it's possible we'll get some news at Google I/O next month.
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According to Köbis, people often perceive these sort of dishonest gainful opportunities to be victimless, or rationalize the behavior to see it as being harmless.
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After the Taiwanese teashop, Jia Yi stayed away for three days, which gave Tiffany the opportunity to rationalize the haunting as evidence of her imagination.
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Danger of communist subversion served to rationalize the dictatorship, although in practice the repression was directed at least as much against agitation for Taiwan independence.
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Federal legislation could help rationalize this patchwork and clarify which agency has the authority to police the underlying virtual currency cash market, the regulators said.
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I often think I rationalize being misgendered based on the fact that I'm able to live in America as opposed to still living in Jamaica.
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But well-known excesses in the policing of speech have handed Trump a gift: he can rationalize despicable attitudes as honest reactions to political correctness.
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In terms of profitability, the company's internal initiatives to rationalize its SKUs and reduce costs and expenses were the main drivers behind the margin expansion.
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"Going forward, we hope this additional transparency will encourage these companies to rationalize their pricing and end the practice of annual double-digit price increases."
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By adding contextual markers, communities can counter the Lost Cause, which became widely recognized as former Confederates tried to rationalize and cope with their defeat.
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However, for the sake of encouraging or even achieving these policy wins, Christians cannot be seen to excuse lies, rationalize incompetence or impose double standards.
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He has long been able to rely on his wife to step in to rationalize his behavior, dismiss his accusers or hit back against naysayers.
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President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, elected in December in a vote opposed by the protest movement, had already pushed for his new government to "rationalize" public spending.
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The bill, which must now go to the Senate, will also rationalize fiscal incentives to ensure that only qualified companies would be granted tax relief.
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Etihad and Emirates serve similar markets and "a merger would allow the combined entity to rationalize capacity, and adjust schedules to better compete," he added.
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Keystone XL will reduce transport costs, further rationalize the allocation of various crude types among U.S. refineries, and improve the safety of crude oil transportation.
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Pundits' attempts to rationalize aside, the stock has more in common with dutch tulip bulbs at the moment than it does to Tesla's actual prospects.
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That's where Robert Lucas came in: trying to rationalize the observed facts of business cycles with perfectly rational behavior in the face of imperfect information.
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The new loan aims to support government efforts to rationalize spending, improve energy efficiency and enhance governance at state-owned companies, the World Bank said.
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Patterson said that with Uber's market share across transportation, delivery and freight, its growth will accelerate and the competition will "rationalize" over the next 12 months.
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You can watch Penn rationalize his decisions and ask actual journalists for their "journalist license" on 60 Minutes this Sunday or on Charlie Rose on Monday.
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Since the colonial founding of this country, Protestant divines have been singularly obsessed with how to rationalize, justify — and ultimately sanctify — the accumulation of American wealth.
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Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said in a press call the competitive environment was starting to rationalize and had been "progressively improving" since the first quarter.
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Even as the aircraft groundings are currently impacting Jet's operations, the airline needs to rationalize its fleet and focus on profitable routes, said HDFC Securities' Ladha.
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Some job seekers rationalize taking a lower-paying job by telling themselves they can just push for a higher salary when performance review season rolls around.
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Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC's weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.
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Brazil's Federal Police and France's Macron are both trying to rationalize censorship as a means to stamp out election interference following the 2016 US presidential election.
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The story of Milo Yiannopoulos's fall from conservative grace ended when a conservative blog posted video footage of him making comments that seemed to rationalize pedophilia.
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It puts Trump's tortured staff in a bigger jam: How do they look their African American friends in the eye, and rationalize their support of Trump?
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That's when Trump fumed about the pictures about crowd size at his inauguration, and sent his press secretary Sean Spicer, out there to rationalize his obsession.
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It says these measures were proposed by the minister of economy and planning to "rationalize spending and increase its efficiency", and were approved by the king.
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"Low intensity smokers often downplay their use of tobacco – may even identify as nonsmokers – and may rationalize their behavior as low risk," Prochaska said by email.
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Though the injection of funds into Ant Financial doesn't necessarily mean the whole is really worth $60 billion, it's possible to rationalize that kind of valuation.
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But if past is predictor, Mr. Ryan and Republican leaders will rationalize their way toward Mr. Trump, because they are desperate to win the White House.
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Our perception of animals as tools, property or food is precisely what enables us to rationalize our use of them for research, consumption, labor and entertainment.
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Germany is the prime organizer of NATO's Framework Nation Concept and, most recently, the efforts to rationalize European Union defense cooperation through Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO).
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And the more founders and investors try to live up to their principles, the tougher it becomes to rationalize the things that fall short of them.
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In her speech Thursday, Suu Kyi again brought up a favorite theme, the rule of law, frequently used to rationalize the government's actions against the Rohingya.
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As worrisome as these issues are, many investors heavily exposed to stocks rationalize the high valuations by pointing out that other investments are even more expensive.
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Since announcing his presidential bid last week, he's spent most of his time trying to explain, rationalize, or express regret over key moments in his career.
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"They try to rationalize that you get the tips, but people don't always tip," Rita, an Instacart worker in the San Francisco Bay Area, told TechCrunch.
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Airlines are seeking to rationalize their fleets in preparation for the plane's return to service after more than five months of grounding following two deadly crashes.
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It started with Karl Marx, who in "The German Ideology" cast all intellectuals as "ideologists" whose job is to rationalize the pretensions of the ruling class.
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But then the initial outrage would subside, she said, and people would fall back into denial about the prevalence of sexual assault or rationalize the crime.
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We are going through all of this – we have to rationalize the number of deaths, and say, well, we lose that many in the flu season.
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"Any fan base, and it doesn't matter which, they'll rationalize whatever they're doing," said the ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, a former Krzyzewski player and assistant coach.
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Mixing bowls When you don't have a ton of space to prep and store food, it's easy to rationalize skimping on a full mixing bowl set.
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But hey, maybe you want to consider them to be alive so that it's easier to personify them or rationalize things in a more palatable way.
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True story: A few weeks ago I was at Totokaelo, trying on a black Bode lace overshirt, attempting to rationalize the $500-or-so price tag.
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I have come to realize that people who react to my engagement may just be trying to rationalize their own decisions or make sense of mine.
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If, for whatever reason, the catalyst doesn't play out like you expected, don't rationalize [and] try to come up with a new reason to own it.
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She is so far inside it that she uses it to rationalize her treatment of the people in her life, including the abuse of her daughter.
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His instinct is always to rationalize and he says his system will be fairer, though there are concerns that his changes will mean less for some.
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I rationalize that I don't have to pack a lunch this morning so I can stay under the covers for a few more minutes to cuddle.
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But in a city where rampant poverty bleeds into jailhouses and schoolhouses, others can't rationalize giving taxpayer money to wealthy owners of a private entertainment enterprise.
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He didn't rationalize why he sent around 4,000 more troops into a 16-year war that the US couldn't win with 33,000 fighters at one point.
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Some Sanders fans at the Bernie or Bust rally tried to rationalize the distinction between Sanders the political ideal and Sanders the politician who endorsed Clinton.
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It provides the key psychological scaffolding for the long con, during the course of which the mark finds a way to rationalize any number of warning signs.
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Nyanzi says she wanted to push the government to hear her case on the vagina poem, and to rationalize exactly why they have put her in jail.
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Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said in a press call the competitive environment is starting to rationalize and it has been "progressively improving" since the first quarter.
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Wanda is also considering a Hong Kong listing for its sports assets as part of efforts to rationalize its portfolio, according to people familiar with the situation.
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For viewers who had regrettable crushes in high school, it might even be a little uncomfortable watching Sara rationalize his obnoxious attempts to be cool and funny.
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"What we can do is rationalize the situation in (Polish) mining firms, so that the coal is cheaper, so that better quality coal is produced," Sasin said.
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But Porter's individual scoring takes a dramatic blow, and it's hard for Brooks to rationalize reducing minutes for his starting five, a group that's absolutely crushing people.
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"What we can do is rationalize the situation in (Polish) mining firms, so that the coal is cheaper, so that better quality coal is produced," Sasin said.
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Will be interesting to see how some GOP senators rationalize the idea that it's suddenly now ok to debate an open SCOTUS seat in an election year.
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At the same time, it substantiates (albeit unintentionally) the premise that men will be men, groping and exposing, raping and molesting, and women must modify, rationalize, forget.
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So even when Facebook is making us unhappy – when photos of vacations and restaurants and conflict-free families are actively depressing us – we'll likely rationalize that behavior.
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Interestingly, the Internet may also offer couples a way to stay loyal to each other -- or at least that's how many people rationalize their use of it.
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" In other areas, where Google has had multiple teams developing different approaches to a similar technology, she said, "we have been evaluating how to rationalize these approaches.
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"The comprehensive review found that over a sustained period of time, rising pressure to meet operational demands led those in command to rationalize declining standards," he said.
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I tried to rationalize my cowardice by telling myself it was the holidays and I was choosing to give them a donation in the spirit of Christmas.
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As the next week begins, never forget how effortlessly people in power can normalize, rationalize and bargain away their core beliefs in pursuit of the bottom line.
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This is like professing love for the people who abuse you; they defend the abuser's practices or deny, minimize or rationalize the threatening nature of the abuse.
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Mr. Kelly has also greatly empowered Rob Porter, the White House Staff secretary — a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar — to rationalize the administration's tangled policy-making process.
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Mr. Kelly has told his staff, time and time again, that his goal is to rationalize the chaos that has engulfed the management of the West Wing.
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If you're the type to avoid conflict, you might rationalize it away by saying you want to keep the peace, or you don't want to upset anyone.
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It's alarming that following his performative hostility led him to where it did: attempting to rationalize the use of anti-Semitic speech under the guise of transgression.
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The release of the NOAA statement provoked complaints that the Trump administration was improperly intruding in the professional weather forecasting system to rationalize an inaccurate presidential assertion.
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It is hard to rationalize Sessions' personal interest in beating the war drum against marijuana especially when so much progress has been made in the regulated markets.
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"There are people who love his music so much, they are willing to ignore or rationalize the awful realities brought to life in the documentary," he added.
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You've written about how when a con artist is a really compelling storyteller, people are more likely to believe them and therefore rationalize away any warning signs.
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The auction is a cool concept ... if you can rationalize spending that much on clothes, and also considering there's zero chance they would re-wear this stuff.
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We can only hope that this is an embarrassing attempt to save face and not something that Wei Lei actually tells himself to rationalize his inability to fight.
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The work week begins with a new moon in Aquarius on Monday, February 4 at 4:04 PM, helping us rationalize things with an incredible amount of clarity.
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The allure of a disruptive solution that will tidily rationalize medicine has too many short-term winners to question—even if those winners are neither physicians nor patients.
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If someone we admire says something we don't agree with, then we often try to find ways to rationalize the conflicting messages in our brain, Dr. Hoffman explained.
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"He is tacking to the center and trying to sound more moderate … But a lot of people rationalize and say he didn't really mean these things," Pereira said.
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Rather than objectively analyzing evidence and arguments, we judge their validity within milliseconds, then rationalize our conclusions—and we get better at doing this as time goes on.
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It is this presumed weakness that will tempt all factions of the right to rationalize away defeat, and to treat the Clinton presidency as essentially (or actually) illegitimate.
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In addition to being told that "clients would never book her," others would attempt to rationalize her beauty by assuming she's mixed or pigeonhole her into subsidiary work.
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" On mitigating the skills gap in cybersecurity: "I think one thing we have to rationalize is that there's 1.5 million cybersecurity jobs that will be unfilled by 2020.
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But, later, when Bill gratuitously describes an encounter with a black man at the bookie's who's maybe all right—for a black man—I just couldn't rationalize it.
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But while clients may be willing to make decisions on a broker's reputation and intuitions, the inclusion of actual data can help the buyer better rationalize the transaction.
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And when taxpayers envision a potential audit, they "rationalize their expenses as if they are going to be talking to an elementary school assistant principal," Mr. Garafolo added.
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The smarter a person is, the greater his or her ability to rationalize and reinterpret discordant information, and the greater the polarizing boomerang effect is likely to be.
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That is what they tell themselves, at least, during the drudgery of a slump or when trying to rationalize the pucks that don't go in, won't go in.
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Gerry Meandering from Ohio had some ideas for reining in guns: Defenders of gun violence always compare deaths by automobile to deaths by shooting to rationalize these tragedies.
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It is, at this point, expected that they will confirm Trump's unqualified nominees, ignore his obvious conflicts of interest, overlook his dangerous comments, and rationalize his worst behavior.
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For starters, the Commonwealth could rationalize its 130 agencies, 15 departments and 78 municipalities, centralize procurement for goods and services, and consolidate and centralize applications for federal funds.
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I note this lack among many white Americans not to defend or a rationalize this ignorance, but to call on white people to be accountable, to level up.
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It's always disturbing to see how they rationalize their support for "free market" solutions in an industry devoid of meaningful competition and rife with inherent conflicts of interest.
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It notes that it is possible a voter first decided not to vote for Clinton, and then in turn cited false stories in order to rationalize their vote.
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Make no mistake: No matter how folks try to rationalize this bill, it has nothing to do with a desire to help the middle class or the poor.
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The last thing this country needs right now is someone in charge whose inclination is to rationalize ways to keep power in the hands of the already powerful.
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The only nit I could pick with this ingenious puzzle by Kevin G. Der was that the puzzle didn't try to rationalize which rows and columns moved backward.
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Imagine how loudly your most basic, primal self-interest would have cried out to you in that moment, and all the ways you could rationalize accepting the offer.
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That conversation really did happen about 25 years ago, but in hindsight, I can't blame my nana for trying to make the effort to rationalize it for me.
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Yet even among more middle-class millennials, a stronger economic backdrop could be enough for them to rationalize spending more this Christmas, and finally release some pent-up demand.
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Rather than striving to rationalize or clarify these nuances for larger audiences, Afteur Pasteur resumes the collective's humorously inquisitive tone that eschews answers for the sake of more questions.
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Marko Mršnik, a sovereign analyst at S&P Global Ratings, said governments should act early to "rationalize" social security systems, in order to spread the impact of unpopular cuts.
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It's a chilling preview, made all the more frightening as various characters rationalize the society that they've built, saying that they're making the world a better place — for some.
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That our metadata is accessible by governments, corporations and malicious third-parties is already a fact of life that we're often ready to rationalize and take somewhat for granted.
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With other states taking the reins, would-be jihadists are hard-pressed to rationalize attacks against the United States and its Western allies under the guise of "defensive" jihad.
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"It is *extremely* difficult to justify/rationalize his verified status (the fact that he's still on the platform at all is a tough sell too)," the policy manager wrote.
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When looking at actors for this role, Mayfield and Schubert had to look for someone who could convey a killer who could rationalize and analytically process his vicious crimes.
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It sounds like Facebook believes a U.S. ban on Libra/Calibra would cause a domino effect in other top markets, and therefore make it tough to rationalize still launching.
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That our metadata is accessible by governments, corporations and malicious third-parties is already a fact of life that we're often ready to rationalize and take somewhat for granted.
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When I subscribed to wellness, it gave me the means to rationalize my food insecurities, while glossing over my fear of food with the respectable veneer of health-consciousness.
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The question to ask, if you're going to rationalize a big smartphone spend, is whether your reasoning holds up in the age of Pretty Darn Good Non-Flagship phones.
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"With Uber and Lyft becoming public companies, shareholders will expect them to rationalize prices on rides towards sustainable levels," said Paul Hudson, founding partner at Glade Brook Capital Partners.
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Curious about how parents who are against vaccines rationalize their decision, I reached out to Jasmin Corningstone, a Sydney mother who refuses to vaccinate her four-month-old baby.
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This alien really doesn't have any fiendish strategy, and no personality ever emerges—the astronauts can't rationalize with it, and nothing they try seems to kill the little bugger.
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But watching a woman—or rather, a group of women—fight about, rationalize, and try to explain an identity they had in a past life was still very sad.
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China is driving a major campaign to rationalize its sprawling state sector from steel to energy as it looks to reduce overcapacity and increase state control of key markets.
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" He added that regulators needed to wrap their head around the details of how the technology works and "rationalize what it offers compared to what the current rules are.
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A party that once believed in free trade must rationalize a President who imposes tariffs on the country's closest allies and employs aides who attack the Canadian prime minister.
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"With Uber and Lyft becoming public companies, shareholders will expect them to rationalize prices on rides toward sustainable levels," said Paul Hudson, founding partner at Glade Brook Capital Partners.
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A national pharmaceutical distribution network resembling Amazon would rationalize the supply chain so that margins become less arbitrary and cost structures become market-driven based on a national scale.
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"However, I think the way the Chinese are tackling this, both the government and I think the corporate sector, is 'let's look at the ways to rationalize,'" he said.
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In a moment defined by paranoia, revenge fantasies, and a sense of moral crusade, it is not particularly surprising that "A Problem From Hell" was employed to rationalize war.
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But what you're going to see is that they're going to support and rationalize the corruption that has nothing to do with any of those conservative values or ideas.
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Of course, as a viewer, you're going to want to try and rationalize everything that she's done, but I really think a lot of it is pure emotional reaction.
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The willingness to justify, rationalize and ultimately cheer its toxic leader demonstrates the moral vacuity that lies at the heart of the Republican Party in the age of Trump.
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It's tempting to rationalize our wish to have that one friend over or to see that one client in our office, especially when our economic interests are at stake.
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Rather it appears the authorities want to continue to rationalize steel capacity and target illegal factories in a bid to cut pollution from burning coal in steel blast furnaces.
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"We appreciate serious efforts to rationalize and simplify the rules in this area, and we welcome the opportunity to comment," said Payson Peabody, SIFMA managing director and tax counsel.
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White lives matter insists that the power of the white race to dictate and rationalize the death of other groups is central to the preservation of their racial superiority.
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If we aren't willing to rationalize the Endangered Species Act, the best we can hope for is that politicians devolve more authority to wildlife managers rather than to judges.
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Michael Bloomberg has a history of believing the kind of nonsense that billionaires tell themselves to make their complicated business dealings and powerful impact on society simpler to rationalize.
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Partisan voters have well-developed abilities to filter out and rationalize negative behavior by their chosen candidate and to view any criticism of him as illegitimate and suspiciously motivated.
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White House Reconciliation was created through the Congressional Budget Act of 23762, a Watergate-era law that sought to rationalize the process by which Congress set the federal budget.
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This has always been true, a collision of imperfect information and the impulse to rationalize, to make the previously unthinkable square with what we thought we knew about the world.
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That this woman had to work so hard to rationalize accepting a black son-in-law is a reminder that this mindset is not confined to troubled law enforcement departments.
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Those operators, Wood Mackenzie said, were likely to store their oil to sell later, only shutting fields if mechanical or maintenance problems required investments they "can't rationalize" at current prices.
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There's no reason why many of Trump's strongest supporters wouldn't also be able to rationalize his use of a racial slur, especially given their enthusiasm for his culture-war provocations.
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The government is driving a major campaign to rationalize its sprawling state sector from steel to energy as it looks to reduce overcapacity and increase state control of key markets.
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We all rationalize losses, and not content with already being considered a modern day dynasty with or without that win, the Tyree catch was tossed aside as an inexplicable phenomenon.
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Yet, McCarty does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does she attempt to rationalize the girls' actions or to vilify them.
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Even when they know they are going to be a second wife, some rationalize it with excuses like, 'His first wife can't give him kids, he is a nice man.
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The company has been benefiting from new house varieties it launched last year and is developing a new construction specification that will help rationalize the number of suppliers it uses.
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The company has been benefiting from new house varieties it launched last year and is developing a new construction specification that will help rationalize the number of suppliers it uses.
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Resolution planning for US global systemically important banks was constructive for their Brexit contingency planning because of the requirement to rationalize and understand their global legal entity structure and activities.
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"These tariffs could help Chinese companies and the economy rationalize and become more competitive and profitable," Siva Yam, president of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce in Chicago, told me.
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New York City's official zoning book is now 4,257 pages long (warning: 83MB PDF file), the point of which is to rationalize what a beautiful, functional city should look like.
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The possession ended with two points for the Jazz, but moments like this help rationalize Milwaukee's decision to select Wilson with the 173th overall pick in last month's NBA draft.
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The United States -- more or less alone among developed countries -- has no direct mechanism to rationalize prices for medical encounters, to insure they are at least nominally related to value.
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I've got kids, I'd rationalize, and I'll only have one chance to capture my five-year-old daughter in one of those close-up shots that zooms into outer space.
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Victims, Houser said, may remain in contact with their abusers to rationalize what happened, or out of fear that there could be additional consequences if they leave or speak out.
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Desperate to rationalize their increasingly unprincipled support for the Republican nominee, conservatives have taken a leading role in spreading the idea that nothing is more important than the Supreme Court.
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Mark Pitcavage, a senior researcher at the Anti-Defamation League, suggested that these extremist groups might be trying to rationalize the growing certainty of a Trump loss for their supporters.
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This was true before VR headsets were released, when you could rationalize the response by how difficult it was convey what it was like inside VR, but it's stayed true.
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Yet, as Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet has frequently complained, compensation consultants more often seem to be used to rationalize a pre-ordained result by cherry-picking the right peer group.
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I get into this state of paranoia, and although I'm still able to rationalize the situation in my head—Hey, you're only thinking these things because you're stoned, you weirdo!
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The party that passed that law is now using the resulting debt to rationalize taking grocery money, health care and other essentials from the disabled, retirees, and families with children.
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"We would rationalize that most of the 104 miles of transmission pipe that make up our steam distribution system would contain asbestos," said Philip O'Brien, a spokesman for Con Edison.
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All of those processes are incorporated because this immigration would not exist were it not for very strategic socially, scientifically, and economically constructed interventions to rationalize a market-based economy.
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Mr. Sorrell helped rationalize a business that had long been far from rational, to the great benefit of shareholders and to the abiding chagrin of a lot of ad creators.
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"It is such a heavily Republican district, and I think that some voters will rationalize that a Republican, at least in policy terms, is better than a Democrat," he said.
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Something prettier, more wearable, designed for the woman who secretly adored the whimsy of that Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino but can't rationalize a mermaid-hued mane at her 9-to-5?
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Rod J. Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general whose 2017 memo about Mr. Comey was cited to rationalize the firing of the F.B.I. director that May, has been particularly cutting.
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"What happens to all of us is we tend to rationalize what's in our best business interest," said Daniel Lubetzky, CEO of Kind Bar, which has advocated for industry transparency.
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The New Deal inflated the size of the federal government, and politicians turned to economists to make sense of their new complicated initiatives and help rationalize their policies to constituents.
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Setting the negative consequences aside, some Republicans rationalize their support for government-provided paid leave by telling themselves government-provided paid leave is inevitable and only government will provide it.
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Calls for more aggressive interventions remain a distinct possibility, especially when advocates don't realize that the dietary guidelines they use to rationalize their interventions may themselves be public health hazards.
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Some might rationalize a more explicit response on the theory that you somehow owe it to your employer to explain the problems you had and how they might be addressed.
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Most of the people I interviewed found a way to rationalize the contradiction — often by arguing that Sanders was somehow compelled to support Clinton even though he didn't want to.
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" — NBC News' Chuck Todd "Will be interesting to see how some GOP senators rationalize the idea that it's suddenly now ok to debate an open SCOTUS seat in an election year.
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Trump's former aide was running her mouth about life in the White House Thursday night on "Celebrity Big Brother" ... trying to rationalize why she's stuck by Trump for so many years.
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I have also explained why Trump would be unable to revive the heyday of coal employment in Appalachia, and his fallacy in pointing to China to rationalize renegotiating the Paris agreement.
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If Gorsuch is confirmed, Senate Democrats can rationalize, he will simply pick another conservative to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and that won't alter the ideological balance of the Court.
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Despite occasional doubts that women have about the effects of hormones on one's body, I am nearly always able to rationalize, through science, why these medications are both safe and necessary.
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"The comprehensive review found that over a sustained period of time, rising pressure to meet operational demands led those in command to rationalize declining standards," said the Navy's top officer, Adm.
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But our Sisyphean pursuit of the good life has higher stakes, and its amalgam of fantasy and futility is something that we process as experience before we rationalize it in thought.
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It is particularly difficult to rationalize, absent weather shocks, why the TSA would not know the flow of passengers, given that it has years of micro-data detailing this precise information.
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Viewers may rationalize that meddling comes from a place of love, but in reality, it may come from insecurity or from having a parent who behaved in the same, meddling way.
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Vali Maduro, a clinical psychologist based in Panama City, Panama, uses mentalization-based treatment (MBT)—which focuses on helping people to compartmentalize and rationalize thoughts and feelings—to understand these behaviors.
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Following his attacks on the media and Democrats, Trump tried to rationalize his loss to Clinton in New Hampshire in 2016 by advancing a baseless conspiracy theory about massive voter fraud.
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What has alarmed me throughout this episode has been the willingness of my fellow citizens to rationalize the President's behavior even after they suspected, and later knew, that he was lying.
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"Securities firms continue to adapt to the business environment and cost cutting remains a clear focus as larger firms rationalize operations and digitize trading platforms," said Justin Fuller, Senior Director, Fitch Ratings.
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At the same time, the pressure is on for the world's largest fossil fuel companies to rationalize their existence in a future where carbon emissions must plunge by 80 percent before 73.
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"Faced with these challenges, we are today announcing decisive plans to further integrate the business and reduce the cost base, rationalize our product development and focus on fewer, bigger opportunities," he said.
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But the evidence from our study is clear: the deeming regulations, if implemented as they are currently written, rationalize several behaviors that would significantly increase e-cigarette users risk for ill health.
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Research has shown that immediately after making an overt choice (think voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton), our conviction strengthens as we tend to rationalize our choices to ourselves and others.
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I've been following the recent activity, but trying to even rationalize when the elections over there take place is mental, because the campaigning basically starts the day after the election, doesn't it?
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The group has already begun to rationalize its businesses and a merger of three of its shipping and marine services businesses is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
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At the same time, from economic theory alone it is difficult to rationalize why an optimal tax credit would give nothing to a family with no earnings even when they are destitute.
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"Closed minds, of whatever persuasion, are unwarranted on the nature-nurture aspects of human behavior and serve mainly to aid and abet those who must rationalize their prejudices," he told the committee.
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Mucic forecast SAP would make 4.5 billion euros in free cash flow in 2020, predicting compound annual growth of 15%-25% after that as the company moves to rationalize its hardware infrastructure.
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By painting the protestors as victims in lieu of a group of two year-olds acting out, a narrative is being created that seeks to rationalize ridiculous behavior instead of correcting it.
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"CRM could tell you what customers you have, how many sales you're making, who is achieving quota or not, but never give me the information to rationalize and improve operations," he said.
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Both real estate companies are overseen by state investment fund Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), which has in recent months said it intends to restructure its core portfolio and rationalize its property investments.
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Experts told Motherboard that the algorithm could be trying (and failing) to rationalize gibberish typed into the box, especially because languages like Maori and Somali have a smaller body of translated texts.
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When I politely point out incomplete and sloppy work done by men there, my employer always defends them and finds a way to rationalize their work and discount my observations and concerns.
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More likely, voters will attach themselves to a candidate based on their own partisan leanings and various aspects of the political environment, and then they'll rationalize that choice based on candidate qualities.
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" He adds, "merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather—like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime—a pretense, constructed to rationalize an unjust distribution of advantage.
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You might try to rationalize the Sanders position by saying that Medicare for All is an aspirational plan, and that in practice he would be willing to accept a more gradualist approach.
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In Inventing Black on Black Violence, University of Illinois geography professor David Wilson explains that "inner cities" were a way to rationalize the urban decay in these neighborhoods that followed white flight.
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The combination of social media pressure and an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain that helps us rationalize decisions, control impulsivity and make judgments, can contribute to offensive online posts.
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It isn't yet mass-manufacturing or selling its glass solar roof tiles, a product Musk touted to rationalize the acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, a deal that also contributed to Tesla's debt.
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The Italian bank will put its acquisition strategy on hold to focus on internal growth and rationalize its business, new CEO Luciano Colombini said in an interview with Il Sole 24 Ore.
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However, if exports provide a glimmer of hope to under-pressure mills and domestic steel prices continue, or at least consolidate, their recent gains, the impetus to rationalize the sector loses momentum.
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It took the phrase that Donald Trump used to dismiss and rationalize his own vulgar and patronizing speech and moved it out of Billy Bush's bus and onto the campus in Cambridge.
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Or they may go so far as to deny, or rationalize, the enormous death toll caused by The Great Purge, which kept the USSR ideologically pure at the cost of millions of lives.
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According to a number of banking sources, private equity firm Apollo is considering acquiring both the Esso and Total/Erg's 2,600 stations to allow it to rationalize the portfolio and squeeze better profits.
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Yet the film makes it nonetheless, by sidelining the rumors of Goodwin's pedophilia (something that even the noncommittal Glen can't rationalize away) as a "really personal story" Goodwin promises to explain over drinks.
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"Pragmatic and effective patriotism only counts If we can all rationalize our actions, converting patriotic concept into action, contributing to the national development by fulfilling our own duties," state news agency Xinhua commented.
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I could try to rationalize the process and say that I am able to write about the experience and that it's good for Gizmodo to have a pair of Spectacles to play with.
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In the end, I rationalize that since the shearling and Patagonia coats together are the same price as the one I bought a few days ago, I will return the other one. Score!
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Monday's announcements throw 1MDB's efforts to rationalize its debt into doubt, said Christian de Guzman, a credit analyst at Moody's Investors Service in Singapore, which rates the $1.75 billion 1MDB-linked energy bonds.
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" In these cases, the powers that be somehow rationalize protecting the accused, and in turn the institution, "without recognizing what they are actually doing is sacrificing the victim to their priorities and goals.
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The decision underscores steps by Chief Executive Officer Pedro Parente to rationalize capital spending at Petrobras, and cope with the impact of low oil prices and a sweeping corruption scandal involving the company.
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So as we celebrate our nation's birthday this week, the president of the United States is squandering taxpayer resources putting Americans' personal data at risk to rationalize a statement everyone knows is false.
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If the man were to turn on you at that point, someone would probably have come to your aid; it's hard to rationalize doing nothing when a morally justified stranger is being menaced.
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Of all the pre-surgery steps, that was the hardest for me: I could rationalize the uncomfortable tests I'd had earlier as abstract preventive health; it was more difficult to distract my stomach.
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It's an exuberantly energetic, well-crafted saga about, well, hustling — to get by, to get yours, and to rationalize away any prickles of conscience by telling yourself it's all just brutal capitalism, baby.
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Khalilzad is negotiating from a position of weakness, and the Taliban are fully aware that Trump is eager to reach a deal to rationalize a significant withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.
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Monday's announcements throw into doubt 1MDB's efforts to rationalize its debt, said Christian de Guzman, a credit analyst at Moody's Investors Service in Singapore, which rates the $1.75 billion 1MDB-linked energy bonds.
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Locked in our houses and apartments, staring at an easily clickable button and trying to rationalize why it's worth paying hundreds of dollars for something that, in a few months, could be cheaper.
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In April, an 11-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employers can't use a woman's salary history to rationalize paying her less than a man doing the same job.
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WHITMAN: BOTH TEAMS GOT TOGETHER AND LOOKED AT THE COST STRUCTURE OF CSC AND LOOKED AT THE COST STRUCTURE OF E.S., AND THERE'S A LOT OF CHANCES TO RATIONALIZE AND DELIVER SERVICES MORE EFFECTIVELY.
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The Federal Reserve may be hard pressed to rationalize another interest rate cut at its next meeting in September because the economy is "a little better than people realize," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
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Indeed the Auditing Standards Board has identified three preconditions it labels "the fraud triangle": employees who face pressure to meet benchmarks, who have the opportunity to commit fraud, and who can rationalize it away.
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It's easy to rationalize spending hours picking a business entity, changing your company name, designing a logo, tweaking your website, and so on, but none of this stuff is going to make you money.
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According to a new report from GLSEN, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ students, a big part of whether or not you rationalize away your sexuality has to do with where you went to school.
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"You can make cases that AI helps you rationalize processes and increase productivity," he said, adding that AI no longer needed a lot of data to learn as it was becoming more rules-based.
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Marlene McCarty's Murder Girls series does not give us the satisfaction of a neatly wrapped moral or a happy ending, nor does the artist attempt to rationalize the girls' actions or to vilify them.
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Rationalize the supervision of multinational financial institutions The Clearing House advocates that FinCEN should reclaim supervisory responsibility over large, multinational financial institutions that it delegated to the federal banking regulators over 20 years ago.
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The internet was supposed to not only democratize information but also rationalize it—to create markets where impartial metrics would automatically surface the truest ideas and best products, at a vast and incorruptible scale.
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Rising pressure to meet demands for more and more Navy operations, particularly in the Asia-Pacific, led those in command to rationalize declining standards that ranged from basic seamanship to operational safety, Richardson said.
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" She continued, "Boy moms rarely make it a point to have special 'mom and sons only' time … Trying to rationalize your 'no boys allowed' party with a lot of political justifications is harmful nonsense.
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To rationalize this proposal, which a former Republican member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has dubbed "the antithesis of good economics, " Secretary Perry points to uncompensated benefits generated by coal and nuclear plants.
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The weekend meeting of China's ruling Communist party certainly provided sparks of good news, with a commitment to increase economic stimulation, as well as to rationalize the massive overcapacity among loss-making steel mills.
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I would not be surprised if the U.N. appeal will be used to help rationalize South Korean aid to the North as a "deliverable" when they hold their North-South Summit on April 27.
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Sinek traces the connection to biological roots in our brains&apos neocortex and limbic systems, which support the logical and emotional processing of what we call "gut feelings," which we later rationalize with facts.
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Compliance is also likely to increase over time due to the human tendency to rationalize repeated behavior patterns, a tendency noted by Dr. Markey-Towler in his 2018 work, An Architecture of The Mind.
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They have followed up an unsightly road loss to Atlanta in their final game before the All-Star break with harder-to-rationalize road losses to New Orleans, Memphis and Phoenix since the break.
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After all, violent crime was used by politicians for decades to rationalize "get tough" rhetoric, declarations of war, harsh mandatory minimum sentencing, and a prison-building boom unlike anything the world has ever seen.
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The company planned to expand its specialty products business, and to continue to rationalize lower-margin product lines, Chief Executive Tim Go said on a March 5 conference call following the company's earnings release.
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Mike: It's hard to act according to all your values in every single facet of your life, so maybe folks rationalize it and pick their battles, which doesn't include taking a stance on Uber.
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On Monday, an 11-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employers can't use a woman's salary history to rationalize paying her less than a man doing the same job.
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Even though we try to rationalize it, we try to politicize it, we try to do this and that ... the digital revolution has sped up a part of man's evolution that is to the extreme.
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While sycophants might begin their campaign with condescension for the target they plan to exploit, they rationalize their behavior over time, constructing in their own minds a target more worthy of the abasements they perform.
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RBC analysts believe the market under-appreciates Uber's profit potential while analysts at Mizuho Securities expect the intense competition to rationalize over the next few years due to continued consolidation and listings of private peers.
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All of which is really just our way of attempting to rationalize how in the world Zayn Malik left his house and went for a hike wearing two completely different pairs of shoes. AKM-GSI
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The cumulative effect of these and countless other revisions is to rationalize Los Pepes as an aberration borne of specific conditions, the misguided but well-intentioned byproduct of a misguided but well-intentioned drug war.
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"Without tangible, physical evidence that a crime has been committed—blood; bullet shells; shattered glass—it's difficult and time-consuming for law enforcement to rationalize dedicating attention and manpower to investigating victims' claims," Moore explains.
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"I probably rationalize things by telling myself that cocaine in and of itself doesn't have to harm animals, people, or the environment, especially if it was made legally in a lab," she says to me.
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Instead, the summit communique reaffirmed a commitment, first made in 2009, "to rationalize and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption over the medium term, recognizing the need to support the poor".
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I get it, sure, but this attempt to rationalize in the face of such an overwhelming defeat looks desperate, especially for a fan base whose squad got absolutely FUCKED UP in the playoffs this year.
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"There is an elitism that makes it far too easy for them to rationalize their behavior with their belief that they are the smartest guys — and, yes, it's always guys — in the room," she said.
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It's easy for a Jill Stein voter in New York, or a Gary Johnson voter in Oklahoma, to rationalize his or her vote, which is likely to do little to swing their state's electoral outcome.
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If the system could rationalize the cost model on a national scale, the patient load across a broader range of service providers would likely stabilize, access would improve and increased competition would drive down costs.
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But by the end, it becomes clear she's performed this penance so she can rationalize being with him, the only way to wipe his slate clean enough that she can admit her feelings out loud.
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"There is an elitism that makes it far too easy for them to rationalize their behavior with their belief that they are the smartest guys — and, yes, it's always guys — in the room," she said.
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I'm annoyed by my own mistake, but I rationalize that, since I have to go to the restaurant supply store for coffee travelers, I can just pick up the items I need there as well.
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Anyone who watched the season saw Jessica trying to rationalize why she and Barnett weren't together — see episode 8, where she talked to Barnett, again, about their connection — and going through the motions with Mark.
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Whatever the president says to rationalize what he is doing on the world stage, we must prepare ourselves for a global order that is going to be decidedly less shaped by American interests and values.
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In highly polarized times, when partisans view victory by the opposition as a threat to the nation, Republicans will easily find ways to rationalize continued economic deterioration and the ongoing demonization of immigrants and minorities.
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Until this scandal broke, I had not realized to what extent such pressure could promote or help parents rationalize outright corruption of some of the most cherished ideals of merit-based fairness in college admissions.
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Because the reason a request like this gets made -- and the reason that Mulvaney feels the need to go on TV and attempt to rationalize it -- is because of the culture Trump has created around him.
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This same "logic" was applied to rationalize slavery -- that people from Africa were somehow inherently less than the white European Americans and, therefore, it made perfect sense for the one to subjugate and oppress the other.
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But it is because I'm aware of my own fear that I know that even "good" cops can kill unarmed black men and millions of non-deplorable people can find ways to rationalize every such shooting.
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Using this theory, you can track performance of your business and rationalize decisions; it's even a great way to explain your business internally and externally — use it to show you're in full control without overwhelming anyone.
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A new report from researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland, led by Dr. Selma Rudert, recently explored how and why we use others' appearances to rationalize the way in which we interact with them.
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Collina has worked extensively as a researcher, analyst and advocate to strengthen the efforts to end U.S. nuclear testing, rationalize anti-missile programs, extend the Nonproliferation Treaty, and secure Senate ratification of the New START Treaty.
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She said often victims are trying to rationalize what happened, make sense of it all, and control the narrative, adding that there is also a fear that there could be additional consequences if they speak out.
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She said victims are often trying to rationalize what happened, make sense of it all, and control the narrative, adding that there is also a fear that there could be additional consequences if they speak out.
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"If we continue to keep getting strong economic data it will become hard for the Fed to rationalize not hiking rates," said Erik Wytenus, global investment specialist at J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Palm Beach Florida.
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That's upset and frustrated a lot of true Pokémon addicts, but Niantic — which has watched the game become more popular than Twitter, Tinder and a host of other top apps — has tried to rationalize the situation.
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You're busy early in the week as your planetary ruler Mercury meets the sun on Monday morning—your ability to clearly rationalize and process the order of your to-do list gives you a productive edge.
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Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, stunned Washington and announced he'd back the bill despite the fact that the legislation still adds to the nation's deficit -- a fact he had once used to rationalize his opposition.
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More from Andrew on how that could play out: Of course, it is possible that a price war could end with the three companies deciding to "rationalize" their pricing just the way the large airlines have.
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After two weeks on the job, Mr. Jackson recalled in an interview, he met with Mr. Huizenga and told him that to rationalize the business, it should sell off many pieces and focus on new cars.
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My scale has spent 2017 traveling ever northward, creeping into previously unexplored regions that I rationalize by figuring the scale is broken, or that it's off because we live near a gate to the Upside Down.
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More common is a desire to subscribe to something called the just world fallacy, which is the tendency to rationalize fortune or misfortune by believing that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get.
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The firm, whose founding partners originally spun out of Sigma Partners, invests primarily in U.S.-based software-as-a-service and marketplace companies, with occasional outliers if it can find a way to rationalize the investment.
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"I think that's me just probably trying to rationalize my obscene spending on clothes," he admits to CNBC Make It. Lemonis' interest in fashion is well-documented — and it's now even a part of his business.
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We have learned how to rationalize and accept the transmission from generation to generation, but Mr. Brooks provides the missing piece of the puzzle: the codes and social structures that maintain the comfortable exclusivity of privilege.
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The point of these books is to blame women for their own professional shortcomings, or at the very least, to rationalize why women are paid less money and taken less seriously than their male co-workers.
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But at Thursday's undercard Republican debate, Santorum offered a genuinely innovative way to rationalize the forced removal of millions from the U.S. "I'm gonna give them a gift," Santorum said about America's approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants.
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But I also know that I am really good at rationalizing whatever I want to rationalize, so it helps me to regularly talk to my doctor or therapist about my relationship with any medication or substance use.
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Nonetheless Saint-Amans, a leading force behind the OECD's push to rationalize international tax policy, said that he did not believe the case was likely to serve as a precedent for tax treatment of future multinational profits.
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For Wednesday's print, investors should be prepared for ESPN sub declines to worsen as vMVPDs rationalize, but we think ESPN+ is a vital new offset, and we offer a deep dive on both it and Disney+ within.
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The fact that Uber chose not to follow the precise terms of the Agreement for the 20163 months of the class period and is now attempting to rationalize its conduct is not relevant to the instant claim.
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Lots of pressure, the dawn of a sacred quest, the fact that Olympic hosts traditionally start a bit slow in their first matches — you could rationalize the whole thing as a fluke, if you really wanted to.
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Andrew Koch, lead co-author of the paper, tells Axios the research was meant to pull together and rationalize all of the research by Ruddiman and others, including the carbon record from ice cores pulled from Antarctica.
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The researchers explain that this may be due to the idea that participating in behavior one knows to be unethical is psychologically burdensome, and thus it is easier to live with and rationalize a single corrupt act.
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Political leaders typically minimize, or rationalize, policy mistakes and resulting problems, but Mexico is a curious case of the exact opposite – a largely positive story, and arguably a major U.S. policy win, portrayed inaccurately as a disaster.
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Second, everyone — policymakers, the media, the public — should recognize how the Tempe crash may feed a dangerous pattern of irrationality: Human beings are quick to rationalize their own errors and quick to obsess over a machine's errors.
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Today's Democratic Party, along with much of the center-left establishment, is so infected with "Trump Derangement Syndrome" that members will engage in whatever delusional ideological gymnastics are required to rationalize their support for a Sanders candidacy.
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It's the San Francisco startup's way of making itself more accessible to a broader audience that perhaps can't rationalize paying $90 per class or $180 for a yearly all-access pass, especially in this increasingly grim market.
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Allies have started to rationalize Tuesday's defeat as something positive: That losing in stunning fashion is better than a marginal loss, because it will force campaign leadership to make the strategic shake-ups they have long resisted.
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Parapolitics traces the history of freedom as an ideology with its own aesthetics: an ideology that prioritizes individual rights over communities, and can rationalize such American freedoms as the right to bear arms or limitless free speech.
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Polls show that the majority of Israelis and Palestinians now both reject pursuing the Oslo Process, which lives on mostly in the rhetoric of Western leaders where it serves to rationalize their own passivity on the issue.
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Whether or not the perpetrators face professional consequences like Taylor has or try to rationalize their words like Paladino, that's a theme that will evidently continue through the Obamas' last day in the White House and beyond.
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Mr. Trump's approach seems intended less to rationalize the immigration system than to inflame his core supporters by demonizing nonwhite people, as he did when he disparaged immigrants from nations like Haiti and Mexico while praising Norwegians.
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And Iran's behavior outside of the nuclear accord, particularly its efforts to project its influence in the region, gave Trump and his hawkish advisers justification to rationalize leaving the accord and exerting pressure on Iran wherever they could.
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The only way to rationalize these moves is to think that the players all assumed that Chris was dead in the water, that the jury would never award someone a million dollars for 13 days of gameplay. Oops!
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In an interview on "Fox & Friends," Dershowitz stated that an excessive or undisclosed campaign donation would not be enough for Democrats to rationalize impeaching the president if the claims made by Cohen in court filings Tuesday are true.
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My sincere best wishes to Better Angels, the nonprofit mentioned by Mr. Brooks, and its effort to rationalize political discourse in this country, but red-versus-blue stereotyping is simply not the issue when it comes to guns.
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Oil giant Saudi Aramco on Sunday posted a 92.63% decline in 292.6 net profit due to a drop in oil prices and production, and said it plans to "rationalize" capital spending in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Those in favor of a BAT try to rationalize it by arguing it will lead to lower taxes for large corporations, but it would do so at the expense of hardworking American families struggling to make ends meet.
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For almost three years miles of newsprint industrywide have been published that wrangle and rationalize to explain what's going on, rather than just stepping back and printing the above statement in a plain font on the front page.
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"Short-term fundamentals look a little top heavy and it may be more and more difficult for the market to rationalize the stiff premiums of futures to the cash," brokerage R.J. O'Brien said in a note to clients.
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C. gets nugs and I get a McChicken with fries and an orange juice (my hungover self will not rationalize her choices to you, if this is what she needs to not die, it's what I'm giving her).
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The difference is that this movie tries to rationalize both its violence and its characters' behavior, which shifts dramatically when Santiago suggests that he and his buddies rob the drug lord, who's bunkered in an Amazonian Fort Knox.
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Decision-making, especially within groups, is often carried out in a haphazard way, broken up by irregular moments of collective reflection in which the members of the group attempt to rationalize the choices in terms of the outcomes.
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A communique issued by the G20 economies in Hangzhou, China, on Monday said the countries "reaffirm our commitment to rationalize and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption, recognizing the need to support the poor". bit.
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Barninder had been vocal on Facebook in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, not comprehending how Trump's Sikh supporters could rationalize voting for a man whose vision of America seemed to have no place for them.
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AND IT'S THE REASON FOR WHICH I AM VERY HAPPY, AND I WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT VLADIMIR PUTIN AS WELL AS DONALD TRUMP WERE READY TO BEGIN DISCUSSIONS TO RATIONALIZE AND PACIFY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS.
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These authorities give the Treasury secretary and FSOC the ability to identify emerging market threats formed by rules issued under Dodd-Frank, authorities to address those threats, and a roadmap for Congress to rationalize any changes to the Act.
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Meanwhile, those same prequels attempted to rationalize Darth Vader by showing how innocent young Anakin Skywalker became a homicidal cyborg, but Lucas—far from the visionary he'd been when he first created Star Wars in 1977—bungled the transformation.
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"Will be interesting to see how some GOP senators rationalize the idea that it's suddenly now ok to debate an open SCOTUS seat in an election year," Todd tweeted Wednesday, after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement.
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Given the complex challenges the Sisi government faces, it might be tempting to rationalize some of its practices as merely motivated by the exigencies of national security, with the belief that this could "buy time" for later democratic reforms.
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Pioneers frequently invoked their own property holdings to rationalize their rights to the land, positioning Native American transience as justification for dispossession: The Kickapoo could not truly lay claim to the land because they had not put down roots.
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If the company has decided it doesn't want to fire Person A even though he lacks "needed skills," it may also rationalize his compensation in ways that won't do you any good — pointing to seniority, experience and the like.
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I think, had there been even a small fee, I would have been put off, but I was able to rationalize it to myself as if I was buying the clothes next month and just getting them in advance.
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To the Editor: David Brooks gives an ennobling description of moderates' measured approach to political and social issues, but doesn't mention that the cloak of moderation can be — and often is — invoked to rationalize the inappropriate, unjust and immoral.
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I think we rationalize that since we can't solve a problem on our own then it isn't worth addressing the problem and we instead focus on the things we can and need to attend to in our own lives.
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"I think there are very high expectations for executions on some of the economic parts of the program, cutting taxes, trying to rationalize their taxes to bring some of the $2 trillion trapped offshore to onshore, de-regulation," he said.
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On one hand, I didn't want people to put the emphasis on the act itself, but on the other, I wanted everyone to know that the aggressor will rationalize everything and use the victim's trust for him to achieve his goal.
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For a while it seemed like all of Maggy's prediction came true, but as with all prophecies in Game of Thrones, you can rationalize that Cersei's belief and attempt to avoid them iconically caused her to fulfill them all herself.
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It was one of those situations where you're supposed to step in and say "Hey buddy, that's not okay," but it's a lot easier to say you're going to do something like that, and rationalize that you'd just moved in.
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If you're like me and a miserable wreck, the minute you find yourself taking the faintest bit of pleasure in anything, you begin reaching for ways to rationalize it, because how dare anybody have fun at a time like this?
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When party leaders, even President Obama, talk about "pragmatism" and "incremental change," they're using code words; ones that rationalize the revolving door between corporate America, Wall Street, K Street, and Washington, D.C.—the one they've been complicit in swinging wide open.
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Companies with respectable linear growth stories that want to raise venture capital often rationalize why they need to invest aggressively in their businesses to drive an exponential curve, even when they have limited evidence to support the probability of that curve.
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"I usually rationalize it, or sort of come to terms with it, by saying it's usually the product of people who are really unhappy — unhappy with their own lives, unhappy with what they've done or where they are," she said.
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"Piling on the frontrunner is a rich political tradition, but to rationalize attempts to stifle free speech is not a Republican tradition and I suspect will serve to strengthen the standing of Donald Trump," Cramer, who has not endorsed anyone, wrote.
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Let this woman's brave statement peel the blinders off young men who rationalize this behavior and who have been steeped in a culture that allows these behaviors to seem normal and then go unpunished (if one is white and privileged).
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They overlook, rationalize and even delight in Mr. Trump's obsessive name-calling and Twitter attacks, his threats and acts of intimidation, his vindictiveness and casual cruelty (including mocking the disabled and P.O.W.s), all of which masquerade as strength and toughness.
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Rather than focusing on winning the election, Trump is preoccupied with spreading unsubstantiated allegations of rigged elections to rationalize his likely loss and creating paranoia among voters, without regard to the damage he does to people's faith in the democratic process.
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That abstraction allowed voters who may not necessarily subscribe to the more extreme racialized edges of the American conservative movement to rationalize voting for politicians that might, under other circumstances, be unacceptable to anyone other than a small minority of reactionaries.
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If he doesn't make those around him better and isn't efficient enough scoring the ball to rationalize placement as a go-to option, then, particularly within the context of Minnesota's long-term hierarchy (assuming Jimmy Butler re-signs), what is he?
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Rules are made to be broken, there's always an exception to the rule—choose whatever idiomatic way you'd like to explain why we all rationalize non-compliance with our own rules because that cat is a pretty good cat up there.
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I know why I don't use Apple, but even after a month of thinking about it, I still couldn't rationalize why anyone would spend a night sleeping outside an Apple store to get their hands on one of its overpriced products.
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So the most logical argument would be that at some point, the number of people who want to pay for sports will stabilize, and that number will be pretty big, and sports rights deals will eventually rationalize to fit that number.
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"It will only become clearer whether Noble's business profile is sustainable after it has completed and implemented its strategic review plans to rationalize the businesses and seek strategic investors; and after working out new terms with its bankers," the agency said.
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A source familiar said that after Washington's health board recommended canceling all large gatherings in the District, amid conversations among the attending physician on the Hill, the sergeant-at-arms and leadership, it was hard to rationalize continuing the tours.
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Poem Although the religious observance of Pentecost has come and gone this year, Laura Read's poem suggests that we can never rationalize away the attitude of waiting, hoping against hope for any sign from loved ones who have left this earth.
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Photographs from 2006 taken from the Iranian side of the border showed that a military rifle range had been erected where the cemetery used to be, presumably by Azerbaijan's armed forces, to rationalize the existence of the freshly flattened soil.
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Last year, James Damore, a little-known engineer on Google's search infrastructure team, incited outrage at the company and across Silicon Valley for making an argument that seemed to rationalize the pay and opportunity gap between genders at technology companies.
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The speech offered the architects of the new segregationist order a beguiling metaphor to rationalize their efforts; the races would now work, Washington vowed, "separate as the fingers … one as the hand" in the restlessly improving spirit of free enterprise.
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The more interesting and maybe predictive group are the Republicans who, to varying degrees, tried to make do with Trump, found ways to rationalize him and still won't acknowledge how offensive he is but have fled or are fleeing government nonetheless.
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They need to think independently to tighten the wiggle room that "long term" gives to CEOs — while corporate leaders should think in terms of years, not quarters, they must not rationalize sustained subpar performance by perpetual pleas to shareholder patience.
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You may, after all, rationalize this away by arguing that the efficiencies you grant oil companies in their extractive endeavors pale in comparison into the investments you might make in renewable power and cleaner technologies, or donations to environmental nonprofits.
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Her parents try to brush off her honesty by dismissing bisexuality as fictional, and then rationalize it away by figuring that there's still a good chance she'll marry a man and have the picture-perfect heterosexual life they always pictured for her.
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When my home-state of Ohio flashed red, I immediately thought back to that moment with my family at Christmas along with the dozens of other times that I had heard people try to rationalize a Trump presidency and I had said nothing.
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If the project will allow the startup to speed up the development of a core technology that is generally applicable to other customers, it would seem far more worthy of consideration — but beware our human ability to rationalize (first and foremost to ourselves).
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You might be able to rationalize why a totalitarian (or any kind of) government would outlaw drugs, but a mark of totalitarianism is the passage of arbitrary laws to keep citizens in line, and a total lack of due process for the accused.
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On top of this, in places where food is abundant, people have a talent for finding ways to rationalize throwing away perfectly good food, whether it's because their pear is lightly blemished or because their soup has passed some arbitrary "best by" date.
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For example: CFO Nelson Chai said Uber is "still in the middle of our planning mode" but that the company is "investing in a number of different bets" such as e-scooters and Freight (shipping) and expects the market to further rationalize.
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Four EPA officials familiar with Pruitt's travel arrangements tell the newspaper that Pruitt created the list shortly after taking office last year and directed aides to plan visits to countries on the list while finding official EPA business to rationalize the travel.
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This is the perfect way to rationalize how much you've been Keeping Up with the Kardashians all these years: it's so you can prove to Kim Kardashian herself you are such a superfan that you should win the chance to hang out.
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Although a fundamentally decent person like Vinnie might rationalize the benefits of the brothels that arise in consequence — they keep the women out of the cold, say, and better protect them from abusive clients — there's nobody of Colvin's moral stature behind the operation.
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The North Carolina-based retailer also announced it will be shuttering its 99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores by year-end to "aggressively rationalize store inventory," in what was one of Ellison's first major decisions since joining the company as CEO July 24.50.
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They have cast his foray into politics as divinely inspired; equated him to biblical figures such as Esther, an Old Testament heroine; and frequently cited Scripture to rationalize his most controversial policies — actions that other religious scholars and leaders have found particularly cringeworthy.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The South African unit of India's Bank of Baroda will stop operating in South Africa at the end of March as part of its strategic plan to rationalize the branches in international markets, the lender said on Monday.
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And in that new place it's easy to forget how expensive and frustrating the quest for good reliable child care was, and for women to rationalize lost opportunities and less equality at home as just some of the many trade-offs motherhood involves.
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One segment shows how people work to rationalize and predict the behavior that leads to death; the other uses the technology that catalogues city spaces and records the manner in which people move about it, thereby foreseeing how heavily trafficked the cityscapes are.
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The Republican Party's instant and still-hardening opposition to considering anyone President Barack Obama might nominate to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has generated tremendous demand for post hoc conservative arguments that rationalize blanket obstruction as a matter of precedent and principle.
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And to the extent there is an awareness that harm is being done, the executive may rationalize that an illicit action may be necessary to preserve the jobs of those at her company or to help boost the stock price for investors, Morvillo said.
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So for a leading role in a high-profile movie to vanish at the behest of studio execs -- insiders who rationalize their decisions with rueful musings about how there are "no Asian stars" big enough to play Asian characters in major movies -- wasn't just unfortunate.
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So our view is that the first priority should be to focus on the public expenditure side, to rationalize the public expenditure side, and we do see that France has the administrative capacity and the opportunity to get quite sizable gains in that dimension.
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We have further learned that the President's full-throated claim that he had had no business ties with Russia was false (in an effort to rationalize his behavior, the President himself tweeted on Friday that he "lightly" looked at a building project in Russia).
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Rank said on Friday the acquisition is expected to deliver at least 13 million pounds of pretax recurring annual cost savings within the third year after the deal closes, adding it expects to cut duplicate jobs and rationalize the geographic spread of the combined operation.
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This approach would make it easier to rationalize Medicaid reform by treating separately long term care from health care, limit the complexity of providing coverage to persons with pre-existing conditions, encourage innovation and provide an array of choices for both patients and providers.
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The memo, called "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber," angered many in Silicon Valley because it relied on certain gender stereotypes — like the notion that women are less interested in high-stress jobs because they are more anxious — to rationalize the gender gap in the tech industry.
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"I believe the answer to all of it lies in how we rationalize the three companies and how we bring in a 25 percent shareholder to help us with both management as well as on finances," Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown told a parliamentary committee.
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And having decided that they can tolerate a confessed sexual predator in the White House and accommodate his desire to run his businesses in a way that makes it easy to bribe him, congressional Republicans can no doubt rationalize the bribery issue away, too.
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Honestly, for a company that's never shied away from potentially flooding the market with a million different devices in the same category, it's tough to rationalize the fact that the company didn't release the Sport SKU alongside the original S3 (which already came in two different configurations).
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I mean, we're sitting here in Washington, DC, where we're surrounded by people who simply want to use government for their own private benefit, and they will use the ideology of free-market capitalism to rationalize things that are very much not in the public interest.
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The American media's rush to rationalize Trump as part of a worldwide upsurge in nativism belies the consistent polling that shows him to be uniformly rejected by the rest of the world by astonishing margins, even in nations whose own nativist anti-establishment candidates poll strongly.
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Clinton's career up to timing, the same way it's tempting to use timing to both rationalize our cowardice (I want a female president, it just isn't the right time) and discharge ourselves from any duty to take action (someday one of those little girls who hugged Mrs.
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And they continued to rationalize their portfolios: GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer announced that they plan to merge their consumer-health divisions in a joint venture, less than a year after Glaxo consolidated a similar business it had earlier acquired from Novartis, also by way of a joint venture.
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Alex was hoping to garner industry support to create an entire cruise (or resort or pre-spring) week and rationalize what is a whole mess of shows and presentations spread over more than a month, and the CFDA got behind him, but it hasn't entirely happened.
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"They have a very strong plan going into the next decade where they're going to attempt to generate $50 billion of free cash flow, they're going to do a lot of asset sales and just essentially rationalize their operations all across the board," he added. Disclaimer
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Now, you might choose to rationalize the possible booking of this rematch by noting that, if the shopworn, 2016 versions of Cro Cop and Fedor are too stubborn to retire, it's better they fight each other than some mortar-fisted heavyweights 15 years fresher than they are.
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Related: A Former CIA Official Apologizes to 'Every American' For Iraq Intelligence Failures On one hand, if you're talking about a good guy getting this or that powerful technology, then you'll rationalize to yourself that there's no reason that this power has to be used for evil purposes.
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Revenue for Europe's two big network gear suppliers remains under pressure in 2018, even if they are making progress towards seeing growth stabilize in 2019, analysts at UBS said, adding this is "more so for Nokia than Ericsson, where there remains much work to be done to rationalize contracts".
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Billions of non-human animals suffer terribly at human hands every year, and while we may rationalize our injurious conduct and tell ourselves that other animals don't deserve any better, the truth is that our mistreatment of other creatures says more about us than it does about them.
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In due time, more details about the gunman's motivation will probably be revealed, but whatever he believed and however he attempted to rationalize his actions will likely be only a symptom of a larger sociological problem that would still exist even if his access to guns were more restricted.
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Airlines that fly the Boeing 737 Max have continued to move the aircraft during its grounding, frequently flying empty planes between locations around the world, seeking to rationalize their fleets in preparation for its return to service after more than five months out of action following two deadly crashes.
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The commission relied on the expert testimony of psychologists who said that the practice of confession, including the absolution granted by priests, assuaged the guilt of child abusers, at times allowing them to rationalize their behavior and proceed as if with a clean moral slate, leading to more abuse.
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Knowing how likely it is that any one of us could get cancer, the fact that I know now that I am almost guaranteed to, and I will be very regularly and thoroughly screened for it — well (I rationalize), doesn't that actually decrease my mortality rate compared to the average person?
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Even then, I felt awkward about that choice, but I also knew that our black and rational President, plus freedom of assembly-loving American citizens, would create such a significant hue and cry that all would eventually be made right with the world, allowing me to faultily rationalize my decision.
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I think we are just looking to rationalize how we spend make sure that we have a sustainable economy and introduce slowly, and that's what we have announced, and the balanced budget program, introduced over the next 4 years, various reforms that will ensure that our economy is sustainable, is diversified.
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As expected, young adults often report peer pressure as having been the impetuous to use marijuana; parents fail to realize that a majority of young adults (63 percent) rationalize their marijuana use by suggesting that it is a harmless drug, and 38 percent actually believe marijuana benefits mind and body development.
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WASHINGTON — In the days after the F.B.I. director James B. Comey was fired last year, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, repeatedly expressed anger about how the White House used him to rationalize the firing, saying the experience damaged his reputation, according to four people familiar with his outbursts.
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While the deal raised questions at the time about how Fifth Wall could rationalize the deal, "[W]hen you look at that business, a huge part of it depends on distribution to where consumers are, which is real estate assets and establishing charging and docking stations at those assets," Wallace said.
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Maybe they rationalize that since Google's heart is in the right place and their words on net neutrality are the correct ones, they can trust that Google would never discriminate against another edge provider or garage start-up by blocking or throttling their free and open choice of ad model.
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What ties together the 47 percent, the bitter clingers, and the basket of deplorables is an apparent tradition of violating this ritual at fundraising talks — badmouthing not the opposition party but its voters in an effort to rationalize away the fact that the candidate won't be able to secure their votes.
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AXELROD: So that's, you know, yes, I would've liked if we had come to office and we didn't have, you know, a massive economic crisis and some of the other things, but I would've liked to have concentrated on this project, which is; how do you rationalize government for the 43 Century?
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It's extraordinary, the writing seems to say, this compelling need to rationalize the trade-offs, endure the intermingling of contradictory emotions—admiration, dislike, desire, distrust, stimulation and boredom, exile and ease—none of which will ever separate out; and all because of the blind hunger to mate that, without exception, characterizes animal life.
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"While efforts have been made to rationalize distribution of resources, the repeated attacks on health facilities as well as the loss of personnel have caused many facilities to shutter their doors and to fear sharing any data with research personnel for fear that it could be used to target them," he said.
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They could rationalize a vote against May as acting in the best interests of the UK. There would also be a buffer or cooling-off period between the PM losing the vote and another general election being triggered, under which the government would have two weeks to muster support in the Commons.
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"Now more than ever, as retailers rationalize store counts [and] retail square footage, and malls consolidate, and seasoned and new retailers are more selective with real estate, it's evident that dominant properties like ours will outperform, gain market share and become even more valuable, " Taubman CEO Bobby Taubman told analysts and investors.
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Absent some kind of common measuring stick, it's all too easy for universities to rationalize policies which advantage those who bring dollars or connections to the institution, those who have the right parents or right ethnic profile, or those who reflect the views and values of those who work in the admissions office.
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But even with all the dramatic black-site interludes — which are viscerally upsetting to watch, and morally infuriating — and even with all the insights the film offers as to how officials could rationalize away such atrocities, there are only so many close-ups of Driver's disapproving face — or Bening's — an audience can take.
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If you're one of the millions of people drinking an estimated 4.2 billion pints of beer (and 166 billion gallons of water) on March 17, there may be a new way to rationalize your fundamentally irrational St. Patty's day beer binge, beyond the worn-out "Everybody's Irish on St-Patrick's Day!" catchphrase.
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In the absence of national policy to rationalize the corporate-subsidy game, states and cities can impose caps on as-of-right subsidies, demand full transparency and accountability from individual companies and make incentives more inclusive, so they support businesses that pay salaries that can support families and invest in training workers.
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This "excusing" mentality can, too often, be found in our friends, family, or other people who are known for their integrity, as they try to rationalize the type of behavior Weinstein is accused of -- even as they, and other women they respect, are its victims in myriad ways throughout the workplace and the larger culture.
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The study "shows in a very natural, experimental way our decisions about dishonesty are not about a rational cost-benefit analysis but about what we feel comfortable with from a social norm perspective and how much we can rationalize our decisions," economist Dan Ariely, who studies dishonesty at Duke University, said of the experiment.
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In one of the more interesting findings, the study identified what we have labeled the Person of Color Endorsement Effect: a pattern of casting people of color as characters who rationalize immoral and unjust law enforcement behavior, which then makes it harder for a viewer to see that behavior as racially biased or problematic.
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The long-time China critic was said to be furious about the leaking of his argument with Mnuchin on the sidelines in Beijing, believing it was intended to make him look short-tempered and rationalize his being kept out of upcoming talks with the Chinese in Washington, according to a person involved in the process.
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"The idea of joint training could be used as a propaganda tool to rationalize how far-sighted Kim Jong Un was in making what was actually an anachronistic decision to build the ski resort at a time when ordinary citizens are starving to death", said Kim Sung-han, a former South Korean vice foreign minister.
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In short, he's pitting the notion of a battle between the inside and outside against the more abstract reality that all art might be is a momentarily useful, socially-constructed label to elevate the activities of people on the fringes of society who are attempting to rationalize their existences to, first and foremost, themselves.
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They struggle daily to walk with God in a way that's best for everyone—and still were able to rationalize their way into participating in some of the ugliness that grew up in the wake of the country electing its first black president, and followed that by proudly supporting a man who ran on a platform of open bigotry.
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"We are trying to rationalize it by pretending what's happening in the U.S. stock market has to do with factors beyond our control…so people can continue to pretend that everything is fine, that we have a legitimate recovery, the Fed can continue to raise interest rates and everything is going to be great," he added.
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But for the last 25 years this argument has been used to rationalize a perverse politics in which Democratic presidents ally with big business and Republicans to make trade deals that expose American workers to brutal competition, and then complain that they are helpless to stop these same "allies" from dismantling social safety nets and destroying labor unions.
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Unbuttoned Last week, Sonia Rykiel, the French house owned by First Heritage Brands that has been undergoing something of a buzz renaissance under the designer Julie de Libran (though still struggling financially), announced it was incorporating its more affordable Sonia by Sonia Rykiel line into its main one, the better to rationalize the brand image and message to customers.
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Publicly, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, has shown no hint that he had second thoughts about his role in the firing of James Comey, the former director of the F.B.I. But privately, sources say, Mr. Rosenstein appeared "frantic, nervous, upset and emotionally disregulated," expressing anger about how the Trump administration used him to rationalize Mr. Comey's firing.
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Much more remains to be done — to assist caregivers who care for veterans day in and day out, to expand our use of telehealth technologies to treat more veterans no matter where they live, and to consolidate and rationalize our many community-care authorities into a single veteran- friendly, provider-friendly system offering veterans more choice of quality care.
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So I have to be able to rationalize, I have to explain to myself what's going on in the sequence in order to choose it, in order to cut it, and then I have to be able to explain to myself what the consequences are of creating the order of the sequences, in order to find a structure.
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"If you're feeling depressed, you're feeling like you want to avoid them, you're crying a lot, if you're not feeling good about it or you don't want to be with them, or you worked really hard to rationalize to yourself why it is a good relationship — these are all signs the relationship is taking a toll on your emotional health," Dr. Bartell says.
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"They had not only infrastructure that could take on Amazon's but they also had experience working in this legacy IT environment, so it makes sense that the DOD might choose Microsoft for that, because Microsoft has this ability to do the next-gen IT migration and at the same time help them manage and rationalize their legacy footprint," Bach said.
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Mr. Schmidt's goal is to improve the museum's flow; oversee a building renovation; reorganize the administration; rationalize a haphazard exhibition schedule; foster serious scholarship; rewrite wall labels; and find innovative ways to showcase a collection that has more than 218,258 paintings, 265,28 ancient sculptures, and 29,22 prints and drawings, including works from Latin America collected over the centuries but rarely shown.
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Having the winners decide who goes home makes for good television—especially when someone like BenDeLaCreme tries to rationalize it for hours on end—but I don't think that it's good for the show if the finale is just the few mediocre queens who managed to skate by and be inoffensive enough that no one wanted to send them home.
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" Nazworth, who has previously criticized Trump -- "Evangelicals who rationalize Donald Trump's misbehavior are sacrificing their moral authority at the altar of politics," he wrote in February for the Post -- said on Twitter he plans to take "some time off" over the holidays but will "say more about how Christians sully the name of Christ in their alliance with Trump in the new year.
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The cruise has been in the works for at least eight months, meaning that real human beings—who presumably operate on logic—have had nearly the amount of time it takes to create a human life to rationalize that they want to drop somewhere between $700 - $1,100 for rooms, and $225 in additional fees just to be close to Gronk's sweaty, undulating body.
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From von Trier, who once said that watching Nicole Kidman wear a dog collar with a bell on it while shooting Dogville gave him "personal pleasure," to Hitchcock, who sexually harassed Tippi Hedren while making a film about sexual violence, a man directing can rationalize almost any behavior toward women if what emerges as a final product is something beautiful in the eyes of other men.
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I could rationalize this, too: subjecting myself to restrictions on self expression came with the territory, and if some of these rules were draconian and weird—restrictions on what you're allowed to post on social media, not being allowed to grow your hair past your eyes unless you make the dean's list, a prohibition of wearing du-rags in public—then I could live with them.
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Tonight's deftly plotted episode, "Boasts and Rails," considers two actions that, on their face, would seem to be impossible to rationalize: Chuck and Bryan setting up another employee at Axe Capital in order to keep their mole from exposure and Bobby seizing advantage of the stock market on 9/11 while his colleagues and future brother-in-law were in the towers, about to die.
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Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE used the expression "locker room talk" five times during Sunday night's debate to rationalize his comments about violating women in a 85033 video with NBC's Billy Bush.
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That's the distillable substance of an unusual speech given by the billionaire, libertarian entrepreneur at the National Press Club on Monday, in which he tried to rationalize his support for Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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Unable to declare victory or rationalize defeat, Sanders has begun stumping ahead of the Granite State primary next Tuesday with one eye on the slow-motion rollout of the caucus results, which have left the campaign in a state of frustrated suspense as Sanders -- like the rest of the Democratic primary field -- tries to craft a coherent narrative from incomplete and in many ways incoherent information.
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The question now is whether it will be harder for British and American legislators and voters to rationalize a leader's breaking of the law to influence a future election than it has been for many of them to accept breaking the law -- or, a the very least, staggering violations of the rule of law and democratic norms -- to deliver on an perceived electoral mandate.
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Kellyanne Conway, a top aide to President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, pushed back Wednesday at a question from a 17-year-old student about how she can "rationalize" working for someone who faces claims of sexual assault.
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Sources told the Times that Rosenstein believed Trump had manipulated him and his letter, which criticized the FBI's handling of the 2016 investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's use of a private email server, in order to rationalize Comey's firing.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark ZuckerbergMark Elliot ZuckerbergFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2018 breach Social media never intended to be in the news business — but just wait till AI takes over Facebook exploring deals with media outlets for news section: report MORE on Thursday issued a statement condemning an internal memo issued by his longtime business partner that appeared to rationalize prioritizing the website's explosive user growth above ethical concerns.
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I spend my days chain-smoking (the world's going to end before I grow old enough to face the consequences, I rationalize); incessantly posting ultra-filtered selfies (my content is a form of art, I assure myself); and forgetting to eat until I can no longer ignore my stomach crying out for nourishment, at which point I open yet another app and order fast food (eating McDonald's allows me to tap into the spirit of Real America all the way from Brooklyn, I justify).
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That is the sentiment that we normally associate with Noam Chomsky and the hard left that try to explain away and rationalize the horrors of these Stalinists like Kim Jong Un. So as a general rule I don&apost really like that kind of thing, and of course it would be great if you got a deal that got rid of nuclear, and I&aposm not saying you don&apost do diplomacy, but I don&apost think that Trump needed to go as far as he did in his flattery.
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