Sentences with phrase «not irrational»

I can tell you, I am not an irrational shopper.

In Russia, it is now illegal for same - sex couples to hold hands and doing so can lead to imprisonment and hefty fines.5 In Nigeria, same - sex couples holding hands can face up to 10 years in prison6 and in Uganda, similar displays of affection could lead to legal execution if a controversial bill is passed that allows «aggravated homosexuality» to be punished by death.7 Even without the risk of these extreme legal penalties, many same - sex couples avoid holding hands because they fear the potential repercussions from doing so in front of the wrong person at the wrong time.8 Such fears are not irrational.

This is not a bubble and it is not irrational exuberance.

But the policy was not irrational and was not unlawful.

It was not irrational for the judge to make findings on the same allegations in relation to the claim but not in relation to the application for committal.

An inquest held in public is an inquisitorial, not adversarial, process and the coroner can reasonably be expected to carry out a proper investigation without the assistance of counsel for victims» families; the refusal of legal aid was therefore not irrational.

Again: that may be a mistaken diagnoses, but it's not an irrational one.

R (Persey) v. Secretary of State [2003] QB 794 The Secretary of State's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the outbreak of foot and mouth disease was not irrational.

Against a background of declining revenues and the employee's refusal to forgo his bonus, the decision to place him on garden leave was not irrational.

It is not irrational to accept an outcome that is less that ideal.

It was not irrational; it was quite rational.

They are not the irrational beliefs held by anti-scientific «deniers».

Its not an irrational global warming panic.

From the Original Post: «But [there are] people who think that climate change is mostly explained by natural variability, again this is not an irrational position that deserves the label of denier.

This is not an irrational position at all.

Until we can engineer 200 kilo cars that provide the same protection as the 1000 kilo alternative, it's not an irrational choice to go with the larger one.

Even posters who fall sometimes into traps or errors of reason from time to time are not irrational per se, nor usually could be characterized overall as dishonest.

Strong belief is not irrational.

Your simple assertion that «strong belief is not irrational» may be true in some instances but begs the question.

(BTW, you're not irrational, most folks likely feel the same as you about the topic!).

If people and markets were not irrational, great investment opportunities would never exist.

Poor Baby... not irrational, perhaps, as the situation has already happened once, but not likely to happen again.

And then, finally, I think I mentioned before, there's a reason that we have anxiety, it's not an irrational fear.

It is not irrational to fear invasiveness in eucalyptus, said Dan Binkley, a forest ecologist at Colorado State University.

He believes that members of the public are able to think beyond their personal experience — «People are not irrational about this,» he says.

This behavior is not irrational, Stott says, and «is consistent with how the social identity of the group is defined.»

«The CIA personality profile of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was actually the Middle Eastern version of «showing off,» not irrational behavior as the Bush administration inaccurately thought,» according to Neuman.

It's actually not an irrational decision — it's got all the ingredients that people crave: sugar, salt, fats.

This is not an irrational fear.

But it is not irrational.

However, there remains underneath an «un-sureness and shaken confidence about life» in the city which hints at a dent in the «boundless if not irrational optimism and sense of invincibility» that may never be fully healed.

The first thing politicians have to accept is that anger and disillusionment are not irrational.

It is my belief that the majority consumers who oppose LBT in their beef are not irrational victims of fear - mongering.

Toddlers are nothing if not irrational little dictators.

Within Asia generally, there exists a strong cultural preference for sons, based on the not irrational idea that sons support their parents in old age and carry on the family name.

Why is it not irrational?

We're NOT irrational animals or bugs, fishes, plants et al or equal with any LOWER species of animals.

Contingency is not an irrational idea; deductive reason is subsidiary to the ultimate rationality, which, as Whitehead says, is the wise, free creation of novel orders.

While both prophecy and tongues are inspired by the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues calls attention to the realm of the Spirit's working that is not irrational, but that can not be adequately comprehended by conventional languages, categories of thought and rational explanations.

They are not irrational, but they are nonrational or arational.

What good is faith if it is not irrational?

It is not irrational or irrelevant to view with grave concern a redefinition of marriage that would overturn the practice of millennia.

It is not irrational or irrelevant to consider the elimination of public acknowledgment of religion a likely contribution to the loss of moral seriousness in our civic life.

First of all, it is not irrational to believe in a higher power.

Second, Atheism is not irrational either.

It is not an irrational fear.

That assurance is not irrational or antiscientific, but obviously science alone could never have led me to it.

It is not irrational to believe in God, Hart argues, because reliance on rationality depends on the existence of God.

Given that the mastermind of the Paris attack posed as a refugee, this is not an irrational concern: even Pope Francis, the world's greatest champion of migrants and refugees, has acknowledged the danger of such infiltration.

That being said, it's not irrational for one to disagree.