rationale

Minnesota cited the risk of “hormone disruption” from triclosan as the rationale for its action.

The student who would understand the rationale of the unfoldment of his own possibilities must make no mistake here.

Both of them outline the intentions and rationale which lie behind the translations.

The weight of human authority is always powerless, and ought to be, where the intelligence is denied a rationale.

What is learned should be learned much later than now, as a synthesis and rationale of habits, not as their creator.

There are circumstances which this rationale of the vestments, though correct as far as it goes, does not account for.