Try to be a more rational consumer.

His argument was far from rational.

Can Iran under Ahmadinejad be considered a rational actor?

Moreover, output growth in the United States was not economically sustainable.

The Edo nostalgia in Japan and the Norway model s appeal in the UK are not rational choices.

The fact that a catastrophe is unlikely to occur is not a rational justification for ignoring the risk of its occurrence.

This might not be such a grave omission if intelligence were a strong predictor of rational thinking.

So we said, If people are not sensitive to the economic rational theory explanations, to these forces, what could be going on?

But only if water is shared in a rational manner that respects the region s fragile ecology will human life be sustainable.

This might be appropriate in times of systemic crisis, but it is not sustainable in normal times.

Its name is a warning, informing humanity that the great inventions produced by rational minds also expose us to unprecedented dangers.

But surely there can be a balance between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.

Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational and powerful response.

It seems to have a behavioral economics component, since the this time is different syndrome seems psychological rather than rational.

But low levels of labor utilization are largely due to heavier income taxes and social security contributions, as well as high social benefit levels introduced at a time when the labor force was growing rapidly and the need to replace involuntary with voluntary unemployment seemed more urgent than today. These measures will need to be revisited both to increase the supply of labor and to make public finances more sustainable.

Yet Burns vision for the automobile reminds us that the transition to sustainability can bring real breakthroughs in the quality of life.

These measures will need to be revisited both to increase the supply of labor and to make public finances more sustainable.

The French like to acclaim the rational rigour of their thinking, but where budgets are concerned, Descartes is out and obfuscation is in.

To be rational means to adopt appropriate goals, take the appropriate action given one s goals and beliefs, and hold beliefs that are commensurate with available evidence. It means achieving one s life goals using the best means possible.

To be rational means to adopt appropriate goals, take the appropriate action given one s goals and beliefs, and hold beliefs that are commensurate with available evidence.

He felt like he had made a good choice with the design process because it was both energy efficient and it washed away the building's resident microbial landscape.

But nowhere are bubbles modeled the economy is assumed to do nothing more than respond in a completely rational way to these external shocks.

The proportionality factor is generally a rational formula_14 where formula_15 reduces the generated Heronian triangle to its primitive and formula_16 scales up this primitive to the required size.

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.

European unemployment had just taken another large upward leap, and the socialist countries were so incompatible with rational economic development that their political systems would collapse within two years.

SAN FRANCISCO It has never been easy to have a rational conversation about the value of gold.

The Irish Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney distinguishes between optimism the wish for a better future and hope, the more rationally grounded expectation that it can indeed come to pass.

But my research group found just the opposite it is a mild predictor at best, and some rational thinking skills are totally dissociated from intelligence.

But a sector by sector approach could mitigate these handicaps, and, given the pressing need to address demand for energy and climate change, it might be strategically advisable to start with the energy sector.

Libya passes, as would most other recent cases had oil or regime change been the primary motivation, the Arab League and the Security Council would never have endorsed military intervention. Russia, by contrast, found it hard to find any takers for its assertion that civilian protection was the primary rationale for its South Ossetian adventure in 2008.

Russia, by contrast, found it hard to find any takers for its assertion that civilian protection was the primary rationale for its South Ossetian adventure in 2008.