| All kinds of rationalizations for my failure come to mind, apparently designed to protect my ego. |
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| Rand cuckolded her do-nothing spouse in front of his face and with long, tedious rationalizations with which she forced him to agree. |
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| We have an innate tendency to avoid pain, and therefore we are apt to conjure up rationalizations that justify our behavior. |
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| They'll bounce right back with excuses, rationalizations, and inane explanations of powers that weren't there in the first place. |
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| While these statements may provoke defensive reactions, we must resist simple, dismissive rationalizations to complex issues. |
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| Their individual rationalizations for the thousands of murders they committed, with or without theatrical flourish, are both queasily believable and morally incomprehensible. |
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| Our minds are ingenious in concocting self-serving rationalizations. |
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| His apology for the production of ignorant students consists of the same bunch of alibis and rationalizations we've been fed by education professors for decades. |
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| His description of Falluja, tinged with Stockholm syndrome rationalizations, painted a picture of what can only be described as collective insanity. |
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| These rationalizations are resorted to by true believers, to maintain their belief despite the failures and paradoxes that they constantly encounter. |
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| Nevertheless, where interest fulfilled a useful social function elaborate rationalizations were developed for it. |
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| The outcome was to reduce the number of universities and technical institutes through a series of mergers and rationalizations. |
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| These rationalizations are part of the uninterrupted analysis of our processes. |
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| It is interesting that we are hearing, as my colleague from the Bloc mentioned earlier, some rationalizations. |
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| I have been able to identify several fractured rationalizations for drug abuse and to draw up a strategic approach to drug counseling. |
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| And this is as true of architecture as it is of the other arts, and philosophism and scientism, the ultimate rationalizations. |
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| It may not rely upon post-hoc rationalizations. |
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| We know that in this place our colleague from the government side who just spoke is able to bamboozle us with statistical analyses and rationalizations beyond the ability perhaps of any other person in this place. |
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| This report exposes such justifications as rationalizations for repression, and, furthermore, as violations of international laws and conventions to which the states concerned are signatories. |
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| This might resemble George Orwell's 1984 with its tyrannic, manipulative government, glossed over by a veneer of humanitarian-sounding doublethink and moralistic rationalizations, and is a very real possibility. |
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| Cosmo gave her a forum to put her grotesque action and revolting rationalizations in the best possible light. |
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| This increase is mainly due to savings derived from rationalizations activities undertaken in Fiscal 2005, increased revenues sales volumes from our Canadian fluid milk activities, and the inclusion of Fromage Côté. |
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| To continue in the same direction, last September we announced rationalizations to occur over the following months to make better use of our manufacturing capabilities. |
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| We have heard lots of rationalizations as to why the government should not be responsible for this and should download this back onto the provinces but the ultimate fact is that it is the federal government's responsibility. |
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| In these and subsequent works Havel explored the self-deluding rationalizations and moral compromises that characterize life under a totalitarian political system. |
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| Later rationalizations made Picus an early king of Italy. |
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| All other justifications are ex post facto rationalizations. |
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| Rummy begins ladling out rationalizations in the preface. |
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| Its appeals and concessions to fact and its airy handwaving rationalizations of them read like the weightless ad-libs of someone reaching for anything to win an argument on a subject about which he studied little. |
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| They are turned into criminals by faulty rationalizations, by deductions from false premises. |
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| The easiest red flags to spot are rationalizations created to justify our behavior. |
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| Sources had to be solid, not speculations and rationalizations. |
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| But his next words sucked all the air out of my rationalizations. |
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| This leads logically to the Woody Allen syndrome, in which 33 years of psychoanalysis only produce rationalizations for having an affair with one's de facto stepdaughter. |
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| Rationalizations offer suspects the opportunity to make their crimes appear socially acceptable, or within reason, based on the circumstances at the time of the incident. |
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