Delinquents doing more time could interrupt their sentence for critical reasons (say, to take exams).

A critical reason for the decline in office construction costs is that steel is cheaper.

These thinkers found they could no longer share the 18th-century Enlightenment's elation that religion was giving way to critical reason.

Form and content yield a unity, held together by imagination, whereas critical reason separates them.

Rather, he saw critical reason more as the "dominating characteristic of modernity, with all its achievements and weaknesses".

That is a critical reason that the German soldiers are suffering so much from the weather.

This is the most critical reason that antibiotics must not be consumed and administered to patients without appropriate prescription from a medical physician.

But the critical reason is for Israel's sake - its pride, independence and self-confidence.

That's one critical reason for preserving habitats in the regions of the plants' origin.

Table 1 shows the critical reasons assigned, by major categories.