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There was no rationale to try to consolidate and compete.

Michael Gambardella

I think we'll be able to go into that in full detail and shed an awful lot of light on their rationale as well as ours as soon as we get this before the public.

Lisa Murkowski

Although the strategic rationale for combining Boston Scientific and Guidant appears compelling, we have lingering concerns.

Larry Biegelsen

Hype does not last long. When you think about the rationale behind the work we have done for two and a half years, it is all about perception and how we want someone to feel.

Duane Knapp

I'd say the competitor in me doesn't ever want to lose a game. I understand the rationale, that it would bring our team back down to Earth. At the same time, I don't want to lose.

Brian Joros

There's no rationale to go out there with aggressive earnings guidance. Why do anything to derail the rally?

Rob Stevenson

We are confident that they will assess not only the substance of the recommendations but also the circumstances, rationale and bases behind them.

Gabriel Claudio

I think it's a mistake to change (positions) out of fear, for the same reason it's a mistake to buy out of greed. There is no rationale for that type of behavior.

Adriane Berg

The current rationale is that the only good conglomerate is a busted one.

Francis Claro

If you're playing a villain, you like to have a rationale. Why is this person behaving in that way? It can't just be 'I'm going to kill them all, I want to take over the world!' Because then your character becomes a functionary, the hero's opposition and nothing else.

Richard Roxburgh

People see fewer interest-rate increases from Canada, so there is less rationale to add to their long positions.

John Rothfield

The rationale for holding this position dissolved over time.

Mark Cloutier

But we understood the rationale and believed our replacements could do the job. If I hadn't thought so, I would have cried out loud.

Todd Woodbridge

The positive rationale behind a deal would be the potential to cut more costs.

Rene Locher

It went to hell in a hand-basket. Couldn't do it. I'm not sure what their rationale was, but it got shot down, big time.

Rep. Clel Baudler

The position on homosexual acts is pretty well founded. It won't change until Dignity drops their rationale, which is contrary to Catholic teaching.

Maurice Healy

But I do not believe that the Bush administration decided that they would set up a scenario that gave us the rationale for going into Iraq.

Arizona Republican

I'm not really sure what the presidents' rationale is for why 31 teams can go [to the postseason] and one selected team cannot.

Al Bagnoli

I don't disagree that there's a problem. I'm not sure this is the solution, but I don't know what is. I don't think the rationale behind it necessarily is strong enough to win out.

Blake Ress

I know the rationale that goes against it. I just like Florida. It's my opinion.

John Kaltefleiter

That attitude expressed by Ford's supporters is exactly the rationale that led us to support the strongest candidate.

Jay Jacobs

No rationale was provided for the change.

Wayne Oakes

The commercial rationale for cross-border mergers (in banking) remains a little tenuous and the evidence is not conclusive that cost and revenue synergies can be achieved.

Gerry Rawcliffe

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Richard Dawkins

Ben is going to unlock a lot of mystery. He's going to explain what he's doing and give an underlying rationale for it. The Fed will become less mysterious, and I think people will like that.

Mark Gertler

It enables us to reach a broader audience. The rationale is that people consume the team in different ways. Some watch the games. Some others watch lifestyle programming.

David Peart

These two things are demonstrably false. Yet overwhelmingly, that's what the troops see as our rationale for being there.

Barron Boyd

The reason for that logic and rationale is that technology costs continue to fall every year, and as a result, you get more buying power.

Lindsey Tippins

We want to ask the departments of corrections and finance to explain their rationale in continuing to push for a project that continues to break the bank and doesn't make any fiscal sense.

Joe Nation

It would be difficult for us to argue against the government without a reasonable disclosure of the documents. We can't prove our case without access to the government's rationale.

James Fetig

We see the rationale for this merger as separate and distinct.

Michael Coe

It is idiotic to prohibit people from participating in government. You are taking a population of our city and telling them that they can't serve to help our city. There is no good rationale behind it. I don't understand it.

Mayor Timothy Stewart

This opinion manufactures jurisdiction that does not exist, ... We have no precedent that supports this rationale for jurisdiction.

Wendell Hall

The whole rationale is being driven by the consumer. They want the whole home solution with the best and easiest to use technology.

James Murdoch

There's hardly any business rationale for this deal. It really dilutes the image of Porsche, and raises questions about whether the management has control over the capital of the company.

Arndt Ellinghorst

We can't comment on whether the vote is justified or not unless we know the rationale and the circumstances of the vote.

Prakash Javadekar

I can understand the military rationale, facing such a horrible enemy, this insurgent, who does not respect any law of war, ... But many civilians cannot come out.

Jean Ziegler

Greenspan gave the best rationale yet for higher rates -- and it is one that we agree with, ... His speech should ruffle no feathers, which leaves the equity market free to move higher and suggests that bearishness on bonds should not be overdone.

Conrad Dequadros

We have a real proliferation problem that's taking place globally, ... This is only going to contribute to that. And it's going to cause other countries to find a rationale, much as India has found its rationale for showing it has a nuclear power.

Bill Cohen

The rationale has always been that we don't wish to criminalize consensual sexual activity - which can range from kissing to sexual intercourse - among young people.

Irwin Cotler

I do not see that rationale behind people having more guns. Whenever there are more guns around, there are more opportunities for irrational people to make irrational decisions.

Cody Farrens

Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy.

Milovan Djilas

It's the rationale of not putting all of your eggs in one basket, for not betting that (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan can save the economy.

David Tice

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

Elaine Pagels

First was to create a rationale for it by convincing people that the city wasn't doing well under the mayor's leadership, ... and second was that he could do better. He had to clear the first to make the second relevant, but he never came close on either.

Edward Skyler

We'll release the first discussion draft very late this year or very early next year. We'll provide an extensive rationale as to why we made the choices we made and, in a limited way, why we didn't include some other suggestions.

Eben Moglen