Excerpts of the official rationale for that award appear below:

The official rationale for this databank was the need to combat terrorism.

I find the official rationale for this investigation highly inconsistent with the character of these organizations as I know them.

The official rationale given by the military was that their actions had prevented an imminent Bolshevik coup, allegedly scheduled for 20 December.

National security is the official rationale for these changes.

The official rationale was that it needed those weapons to continue fighting Israel's occupation of the south.

Historians, by and large, have not accepted the official rationale for Pons's removal.

Thus the official rationale for the landing on Grenada was to rescue American medical students.

The official rationale was that the city could not afford to keep the centre operating.

That was the official rationale for the ACE alliance.