rationalization

Examples of rationalized

rationalized

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This implies that the data can be rationalized by a well-behaved utility function and is, therefore, consistent with utility maximization.
Example 7 illustrates this graphically, using 'rationalized' values.
Southern nationalism's realpolitik nevertheless demanded that partition was rationalized as a matter of self-preservation.
The older models of recruitment into government-patronage and apprenticeship primarily-were no longer sufficient to meet the demands of an increasingly rationalized administrative structure.
Such lexical suggestion may itself be rationalized by more extended types of narratives.
First, consider whether attitudes are invariably rationalized, rather than based on thought.
Manufacture, thus rationalized, therefore represented a superior plant structure which soon replaced the previous forms of production.
When he does violate it, neither guilt nor shame is typically absent, but the act will have been rationalized by him.
These findings suggest a fundamental flaw in reduced-form inventory models where stocks are loosely rationalized by this motive.
These experiences may produce involuntary effects at unexpected moments and may comprise a mixture of experiences that cannot be ordered and rationalized.
But identity is often less coherent, less rationalized, more elusive, more negotiated, and more emergent than this.
Most satisfying to us is the fact that we have an operational, rich, dynamic "core" model that is rationalized by basic economic theory.
Targeting avoidance, particularly in its subtle and rationalized forms, more than panic, is thus essential in treatment.
It must be emphasized that of the factors listed above, all except membrane composition can be easily rationalized by other pathogenic mechanisms.
The lack of fit between state-sponsored terminologies and actual everyday practice is rationalized by speakers in various metapragmatic narratives, including some routinized ones.
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