1. His ability to rationalise verged on the psychopathic.

2. I can't rationalise my absurd fear of insects.

3. 6 synonyms for Apologise: rationalize, apologize, rationalise, justify, excuse, apologize

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

5. That is, as a policy objective certainly we need to rationalise energy prices.

6. Insist that I will not rationalise blunders, or omit details to camouflage motives.

7. Farming businesses rationalise the labour force, or decide not to replace retiring staff.

8. Cost savings may also result from agreements that allow the parties to rationalise production across their facilities.

9. Few talk of brutality by their own side except to rationalise what went on.

10. While advancing reason, they failed to divorce morality from religion and tried to rationalise faith.

11. The "veiled reality", then, can in no way help Christians or Muslims or Jews rationalise their beliefs.

12. His new parent company may now be adding different tension as he lays plans to rationalise staffing structures.

13. The enlargement of the EU is currently forcing the Commission to rationalise its relays and networks more effectively.

14. Several important steps have been taken to modernise, rationalise and strengthen our defence security and intelligence apparatus.

15. Agnes Harkin struck silver with her suggestion to rationalise the general ledger statements received south of the border.

16. There would also be stimulation of investment to reap economies of scale, and to rationalise production and distribution systems.

17. It seems to have given little thought to merging those villages, towns or even some of the 47 prefectures to rationalise public services.

18. GM sold Saab in early 2010 as part of a drive to rationalise its brands but Spyker has struggled to keep the carmaker going.

19. Others rationalise that it might bring benefits to one of the world's coldest countries, freeing up a melting Arctic for oil and gas exploration, and extending the country's brief growing season.

20. In a statement later on Thursday, Leon said it was not good enough to "simply invoke multi-culturalism or the imposition of religious law to rationalise or 'Contextualise' this inhuman sentence"

21. HSBC has always sought to rationalise its money market funds where possible. We are now, but that said I think we are down to a pretty lean core and I don't expect significant further rationalisation.

22. Now, Baumol asserts that sales optimisation postulates with its minimum profit restraint can describe and rationalise the variation in prices Consequenting of variations in overhead costs, while profit optimisation as pointed above cannot consider for it.