rationalize
rationalise BrE

For the right price, most people in power can rationalize anything.

"You have to understand how someone from my position would not think he could be rationalized with."

At that early time the whole thing was so easy to rationalize.

For a while, he played with the thought, not trying to rationalize it.

After a time, perhaps, a choice either way could be rationalized.

And I rationalize that his last months should be free from fear.

No matter how you rationalized it, this was still someone else's body.

He rationalizes that the new world is for the young.

It was something that all five could rationalize themselves into going along with.

Long into the night she tried to rationalize her actions.

But that's just a first, easy step toward rationalizing the financial services industry.

He put his head down and tried to rationalize an appropriate response.

This is just your mind's way of rationalizing my presence.

I put the time to good use by rationalizing my actions.

"And perhaps rationalized to believe that he remained in control."

I never smoke at school in front of my students, she rationalized.

But it is not clear that his political theory could be rationalized.

In a way he could rationalize neither to others nor to himself.

Or was he just trying to rationalize his own sins?

Then she tried to rationalize the execution and did much better.

But rationalizing was a good way to wake up dead.

He would be able to rationalize that there was no time to send help.

That thinking makes it easy to rationalize holding back the tax money a while.

Still, he rationalized, a bowl was exactly what it looked like to him.

"It means less pressure on companies to rationalize their businesses."

These people are trying to rationalise the state of things to themselves.

On the other hand, it is necessary to rationalise the present situation.

I can rationalise a partner getting something better than me.

We have tried to rationalise our procedures in other ways.

In 1986-88 steps were taken to rationalise the use of water resources.

The government must also present its plan to rationalise the judicial system.

"Families will have to seriously rationalise their car use," he says.

Incapable of clear thought, she made no effort to rationalise anything.

No matter how much an intelligent child can rationalise her own experience, the pain will always return.

One that he had used to rationalise his own wish to go anyway.

Later he came to rationalise that, seeing it as part of a family pattern.

We can rationalise and fight our way out, but they are often deeply hurt.

At the same time, the nomenclature of the range was rationalised.

Yes, some elements of this Bill have been amended and rationalised.

That action plan will include measures to rationalise the state aid framework.

Till I almost rationalised any real feeling out of my life altogether.

Our eyes, relying on light, help us to interpret and rationalise the world.

Certainly the process has always been very complex, as a result of historical decisions, and these must eventually be rationalised.

"Within the next thirty years, English spelling will be rationalised."

The point is to change it, not to rationalise it.

This offered the opportunity to rationalise product development, production and marketing.

A dozen times a day he rationalised his thoughts until there were no doubts left.

The number of antibodies required in the panel was therefore rationalised.

The station had four wooden platforms until it was rationalised in 1973.

It has remained this since, though numbering was rationalised around 1896.