In a more rational world some of the central processes of medical education and career development would be less mysterious - or at least more subject to rational scrutiny.

Because they were grounded in biologically evolved dispositions and culturally transmitted prejudices that, however strongly entrenched, could not withstand the kind of rational scrutiny to which they have been submitted in the past two centuries.

It doesn't stand for any rational scrutiny.

The historical Buddha lived during a time of spiritual and philosophical revival in Northern India when the overly ritualistic practices of the vedas came under rational scrutiny.

Mr. Verdier insisted that the method was generally good and reassuring to French managers raised to value instinct and impressions over the sort of rational scrutiny used in American multiple-choice tests.

So I ask you to please, bring some real, rational scrutiny to Assange and Wikileaks.

A worthwhile longer-term project, which gets closer to the heart of the matter, is therefore to begin to unearth these injunctions, to bring them to light, and to put them to the test of rational and empirical scrutiny.

Benno had been struck by William's words on the rational scrutiny of propositions.

Rather than treat the cocaine inquiry as a dialogue in which the questions as well as the answers are subject to rational scrutiny, most reporters depict it as a force of nature.

Or need it be established well beforehand, harnessing whatever ethical intuitions and even visceral reactions can withstand rational scrutiny?