The Court insisted that if statistics were to be used they bear some rational relationship to the pool of qualified persons for each job category.

The superpowers have a long negotiating way to go before they reach a rational relationship.

The court found that the licensing system bore some rational relationship to legitimate state purposes.

But despite that "rational relationship with viewers," he added, "to grow we know we needed to establish an emotional relationship, too."

Mr. Wright said one thing the court would consider was whether the discrimination "bears a rational relationship to what the town's trying to do."

If the town is trying to limit the number of people in the park, he said, it is not a rational relationship.

Arbitrariness; There is not necessarily a rational relationship between a sound or sign and its meaning, i.e. symbolism.

These are the first steps toward creating a market mechanism in which supply, demand and the value of money have a rational relationship with one other.

Nobody can draw attention, for instance, to the rational scholastic relationship between professor and student, without being considered a candidate for a mental institution.

Therefore, it is important to enter into a rational relationship so that we can put the past behind us and look to the future.