rational basis
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrationalandbasis
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rational
adjective
uk/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
based on clear thought ...
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basis
noun[C]
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪs/
the most important facts, ideas, etc. from which something ...
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(Definition ofrationalandbasisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Prosecution or regulation without arationalbasisis insulting and demeaning, as would be subjection to the whims of a tyrant.
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Towards arationalbasisfor testing seed quality.
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Moreover, understanding of patients' symptom pattern provides arationalbasisfor patient management and for advice to carers.
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Bayesian analysis provides arationalbasisfor the qualitative form of set-theoretic models of similarity.
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Its focus on land and its elimination of the human factor promised arationalbasisof administration and an ' objective ' basis for taxation.
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With these formative attempts to provide arationalbasisfor the understanding of nature, we can trace differences in emergent pluralism from its creationist counterparts.
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The essay not only strives to amuse and provoke, but to persuade readers of therationalbasisof his appreciation.
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We will clarify and elaborate upon those arguments in this section, beginning with therationalbasisof the principle.
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Rationalbasisreview, which is the standard of review appropriate to restriction of non-fundamental liberties, demands this.
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Given the complexity of this multi-dimensional disorder, the challenge is to provide arationalbasisfor treatment.
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It reveals the ways that ideas become objects of affect while at the same time maintaining arationalbasisin consciousness.
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First, in liberal democratic societies the exercise of power over citizens becomes legitimate to the extent that it claims arationalbasis.
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Our goal is to understand therationalbasisof these constraints.
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A glorified form of accounting, cost-benefit analysis, has been widely advocated as therationalbasis for public regulatory and investment decisions of all kinds.
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Arationalbasison which to split the data into its two 'symmetrical' halves was sought.
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The longterm aim, not addressed here, is to provide arationalbasisfor choosing between various control options, taking due account of biological, economic and sociological factors.
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In addition, if better criteria for individual prognoses can be established, this will provide arationalbasisfor investing resources in the care of particular patients.
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The only exception to this was that by study convention we did not exclude subjects who felt there might be somerationalbasisfor their obsessions or compulsions.
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