rationale
US /ˌræʃəˈnæl/
・UK /ˌræʃəˈnɑ:l/
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n.NounExplanation of justification for something
My rationale for moving here was to find a job, but I still haven't been able to
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#AskGaryVee Episode 72: Casey Neistat on Applying to College & How to Focus on Goals
- Boy, there's a lot of rationale in a 2015 world where college is not the right answer.
Boy, there's a lot of rationale in a 2015 world where college is not the right answer.
- boy there's a lot of
rationale in the 2015 world
boy there's a lot of rationale in the 2015 world
The Lengths We Go To Avoid Love
- If we find ourselves in a relationship, we will assiduously practice the arts of what psychologists call distance management. When the chance of reaching a truly happy state appears, we'll subtly discover ways to introduce a chasm. We'll have an argument, spoil a birthday, ruin a holiday. We'll find we have to do a lot of work for an upcoming exam or presentation, that our gang of friends needs us to be somewhere else, that we forgot to return the credit card or tax bill, that our appearance requires a lot of our attention or that we like to flirt with a stranger at a party who suddenly seems very attractive indeed. In both tiny and large ways, we'll know just how to lower the mood, scupper a bond and destroy trust. Perhaps not enough to end a relationship completely, but certainly enough to worry our partner sufficiently as to our solidity that we can be privately sure things will never truly fly. Friends may commiserate with us on our so-called bad luck. Psychologists will note our superlative skill at romantic sabotage. With this to sound a bit like us, compassion is required. We should reflect back on our pasts and wonder at the connection between our fractured bonds with parental figures and our disrupted adult attachments. We aren't like this because we're wicked, we've just been very badly hurt. Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we'll be in a better position to see that it has in reality outlived its rationale. We may still feel immensely apprehensive at the prospect of contentment, but we may finally be able to admit that we are, first and foremost, acting out of fear. Rather than dismissing our partners, we may stick closer to a much more awkward truth – that we're tempted to draw away from them because we're immensely scared that they might finally be in a position to make us very happy – and that simply nothing so unutterably and boundlessly frightening has ever happened to us before.
If we find ourselves in a relationship, we will assiduously practice the arts of what psychologists call distance management. When the chance of reaching a truly happy state appears, we'll subtly discover ways to introduce a chasm. We'll have an argument, spoil a birthday, ruin a holiday. We'll find we have to do a lot of work for an upcoming exam or presentation, that our gang of friends needs us to be somewhere else, that we forgot to return the credit card or tax bill, that our appearance requires a lot of our attention or that we like to flirt with a stranger at a party who suddenly seems very attractive indeed. In both tiny and large ways, we'll know just how to lower the mood, scupper a bond and destroy trust. Perhaps not enough to end a relationship completely, but certainly enough to worry our partner sufficiently as to our solidity that we can be privately sure things will never truly fly. Friends may commiserate with us on our so-called bad luck. Psychologists will note our superlative skill at romantic sabotage. With this to sound a bit like us, compassion is required. We should reflect back on our pasts and wonder at the connection between our fractured bonds with parental figures and our disrupted adult attachments. We aren't like this because we're wicked, we've just been very badly hurt. Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we'll be in a better position to see that it has in reality outlived its rationale. We may still feel immensely apprehensive at the prospect of contentment, but we may finally be able to admit that we are, first and foremost, acting out of fear. Rather than dismissing our partners, we may stick closer to a much more awkward truth – that we're tempted to draw away from them because we're immensely scared that they might finally be in a position to make us very happy – and that simply nothing so unutterably and boundlessly frightening has ever happened to us before.
- Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we will be in a better position to see that it has, in reality, outlived its rationale.
Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we will be in a better position to see that it has, in reality, outlived its rationale.
Why China-EU trade ties are so tense | DW News
- Is this an issue that Beijing cares about addressing, or is the rationale here that the Europeans should mind their own business?
Is this an issue that Beijing cares about addressing, or is the rationale here that the Europeans should mind their own business?
- Or is the rationale here that the Europeans should mind their own business?
Or is the rationale here that the Europeans should mind their own business?
How To Overcome Psychological Barriers
- They are typically framed in problematic ways - like illnesses that have no rationale.
They are typically framed in problematic ways - like illnesses that have no rationale.
- They're typically framed in problematic ways, like illnesses that have no rationale.
They're typically framed in problematic ways, like illnesses that have no rationale.
India launches strike against Pakistan in wake of tourist massacre
- And the Pakistani perception is that India had been looking for a legal way to abrogate the terms of that Indus water treaty signed in 1960, had been looking for a legal way to do that in recent months and had taken this particular killing of 26 civilians as a rationale and reason to immediately jump to that position.
And the Pakistani perception is that India had been looking for a legal way to abrogate the terms of that Indus water treaty signed in 1960, had been looking for a legal way to do that in recent months and had taken this particular killing of 26 civilians as a rationale and reason to immediately jump to that position.
- And the Pakistani perception is that India had been looking for a legal way to abrogate the terms of that Indus Water Treaty signed in 1960, had been looking for a legal way to do that in recent months and had taken this particular killing of 26 civilians as a rationale and reason to immediately jump to that position.
And the Pakistani perception is that India had been looking for a legal way to abrogate the terms of that Indus Water Treaty signed in 1960, had been looking for a legal way to do that in recent months and had taken this particular killing of 26 civilians as a rationale and reason to immediately jump to that position.
How one of Japan's largest insurers is pivoting to serve an aging population
- What is the rationale behind the reorganisation?
What is the rationale behind the reorganisation?
- What is the rationale behind the reorganization?
What is the rationale behind the reorganization?
A Scientific Brain Drain Has Followed Trump’s Gutting Of The NIH - Dr. Francis Collins
- Was any rationale given for this?
Was any rationale given for this?
- I'm not able to come up with scientific ideas with my team that I'd like to pursue." Was any rationale given for this?
I'm not able to come up with scientific ideas with my team that I'd like to pursue." Was any rationale given for this?
Is Trump winning? | The Gray Area
- It's it's false I want to be clear about that, but that is the stated rationale And so the end result the solution they think is well if it's already been politicized by them We can politicize it too.
It's it's false I want to be clear about that, but that is the stated rationale And so the end result the solution they think is well if it's already been politicized by them We can politicize it too.
- But that is the stated rationale.
But that is the stated rationale.
3 Investing Lies That Are Costing You Money
- He understood the rationale behind this and he agreed that this was the correct thing to do.
He understood the rationale behind this and he agreed that this was the correct thing to do.
- He understood the rationale behind this, and he agreed that this was the correct thing to do.
He understood the rationale behind this, and he agreed that this was the correct thing to do.
2013 Sequestration: Cuts to the U.S. Federal Budget and U.S. Government Finance
- And although I do think that we're seeing, on a state-by-state basis, progress being made more and more states recognizing same-sex couples and giving them the opportunity to marry and maintain all the benefits of marriage that heterosexual couples do, when the Supreme Court asks, do you think that the California law, which doesn't provide any rationale for discriminating against same-sex couples other than just the notion that, well, they're same-sex couples, if the Supreme Court asks me or my Attorney General or a Solicitor General, do we think that meets constitutional muster, I felt it was important for us to answer that question honestly.
And although I do think that we're seeing, on a state-by-state basis, progress being made more and more states recognizing same-sex couples and giving them the opportunity to marry and maintain all the benefits of marriage that heterosexual couples do, when the Supreme Court asks, do you think that the California law, which doesn't provide any rationale for discriminating against same-sex couples other than just the notion that, well, they're same-sex couples, if the Supreme Court asks me or my Attorney General or a Solicitor General, do we think that meets constitutional muster, I felt it was important for us to answer that question honestly.
- Whenever a particular group is being discriminated against, the Court asks the question, what's the rationale for this?
Whenever a particular group is being discriminated against, the Court asks the question, what's the rationale for this?