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Parents aren't rational because love isn't rational.
Although the arguments were rational, he was not convinced.
Robinson is a practical, rational and brave man.
No matter how rational your words may sound, someone will always contradict you.
But if we were completely rational, would we then still want children?
Mr. White is a rational man.
Numbers that can be expressed as fractions of two whole numbers are called rational numbers.
I'm not certain if Lojban is a rational language, but I am very sure that Lojbanists are habitually not rational people.
Tom is rational.
I'm rational.
Modern, rational, logical and unprejudiced science has already given us far more secure knowledge and immeasurably more than any religion has ever given us.
People aren't always rational.
Try to be a more rational consumer.
His argument was far from rational.
That's not rational.
Man is a rational animal.
Humans are not rational creatures.
He's rational.
Movie subtitles
I, a rational woman, have no-one to question but myself.
Parents are not rational people.
You said I could have my say if I were rational. I'm rational.
You know, I'm half inclined to believe. that there's some rational explanation to all this.
Who's asking you to be rational?
I am a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Ahh!
It's not just TB. A rational approach is the best medicine for life.
Queeg has been found rational by three psychiatrists.
I tried to keep him rational, but he swears it was because of her.
Locked in a sub-electronic dilemma between my direct orders..and his basic inhibitions against harming rational beings.
There's always a rational explanation if you want it.
I'll take the rational explanation.
Yes, just as you took the rational explanation of us.
We've also seen they're competent, rational, and compliant human beings.
My book is completely rational and of definite scientific value.
Hope the old hand hasn't lost it's cunning. I'm inclined to believe. that there's some rational explanation to all this.
I'm sure there's some rational explanation for all this.
Get yourself into a rational mood for this evening's performance which will be without interruptions.
That you are rational when you have to.
Locked in a sub-electronic dilemma between my direct orders and his basic inhibitions against harming rational beings.
There must be some rational scientific explanation for this.
I'm used to look at things in a rational way.
Only a rational being is capable of deliberate deceit.
Timmie..-.you are a rational being.
My built-in basic directive forbids me to permit bodily injury to a rational being.
The General's almost rational when you're not around.
The acts that we do for no evident reason are sometimes the most rational ones.
We've got to be rational about this.
He's rational!
These suspicious noises, these strange apparitions must have a rational explanation!
What defies probability is that none of them had a rational explanation for quitting.
Human, rational, but without a flaw.
Is our planet the only one inhabited by rational beings like us?
We're looking for rational explanations, and there is one.
Startling not rational.
No man achieves Starfleet Command without relying on intuition, but have I made a rational decision?
One moment paranoid, the next, calm, mild, rational.
It is more rational to sacrifice one life than six, doctor.
News and current affairs
SAN FRANCISCO - It has never been easy to have a rational conversation about the value of gold.
That augurs well for a more rational and constructive Sino-American dialogue on global imbalances, which would certainly benefit the global economy.
The arguments against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational.
That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.
People are rational, Friedman said, so they will not work for long if they get nothing or next to nothing for it.
They point out that it may be rational for many countries to preserve this institutional framework, even if American power resources decline.
This is what appeared to happen in the last Indian election, and the election in the United States of President Barack Obama was also plainly a supremely rational moment.
This is highly inefficient, because while it is individually rational for depositors to want their money immediately, the bank might have been able to service all of them had they been collectively patient.
The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.
So the only rational response is to research aggressively into the many unknown factors: the physics of cloud formation, the dynamic coupling of the upper stratosphere to the lower atmosphere, the accumulation of atmospheric water vapor.
Recent developments in the Netherlands have also shown that euthanasia is discussed more in the context of autonomy, control, and rational choice rather than of uncontrollable medical symptoms.
Assuming that you are rational, you must calculate that you may be a member of a cultural minority.
He was justly concerned that the Russians would go to great lengths to prevent him from being champion, but ultimately rational concerns tipped into paranoia, and Fischer started to turn on his closest friends and confidants.
Indeed, Breivik's interpretation of their words is, in an odd way, more rational than the idea that a war for our very survival can be fought with words alone.
Finally, even rational people have become more receptive to certain conspiracy theories because, in the last eight years, we actually have seen some sophisticated conspiracies.
Is it any wonder, then, that so many rational people are trying to make sense of a political reality that really has become unusually opaque?
But no one should think that debate in democracies is always based on reason, or that democracy necessarily makes people more rational.
That is both logical and rational - and thus not something that the US Federal Reserve can offset with unconventional monetary easing.
But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region's fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
But surely there can be a balance between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.
If individuals were rational and well informed, they might conclude that they should not spend more, despite tax cuts, since the cuts are not real.
This is a completely mundane and rational business decision, aimed at minimizing tax obligations.