This brings into question the rationale for treating tonsillitis as a means of preventing rheumatic fever.

No other justice attempted to question his rationale.

Critics also question the rationale that exclusive patent rights and the resulting high prices are required for pharmaceutical companies to recoup the large investments needed for research and development.

Analysts also questioned the rationale for consolidation among the big housebuilders.

The report questioned the rationale behind the belief that outsourcing provides a better service for less public money and said that ministers could not provide evidence that this was true.

And strange as it sounds, there seems to be some scientific rationale.

The protocol describes the scientific rationale, objective(s), design, methodology, statistical considerations and organization of the planned trial.

Over the next two decades he added ethical and scientific rationales to his defense of the wilderness concept.

The shareholders who scuppered the deal were critical of the price rather than its strategic rationale.

Aside from the comparatively poor returns, shareholders are entitled to question the strategic rationale behind all this investment.

Investors supported the strategic rationale but were less enthusiastic about the lack of detail about cost cuts.

So doing would not save much money, and also would undermine the strategic rationale for having two carriers.

However, such a deal looks highly unlikely, according to analysts, who noted that there was little strategic rationale for such an offer.

Such forecasts undermine the rationale for investment in facilities to make bikes more popular.

Such findings did not undermine the rationale for combat immunity.

Price collusion, whereby firms agree - even tacitly - artificially to raise prices to boost profits, undermines the rationale of a market economy.

Some analysts have argued that the concessions he has had to make have undermined the rationale of the takeover.

Decreased demand amid the global economic downturn plus a glut of gas supplies have undermined the rationale for developing new gas projects.

One can understand the rationale behind all of this.

Yet bankers and industry observers struggled to understand the rationale for the deal.

Once you understand that shift, you understand the rationale behind much of what has been said this week.

We want to understand the rationale behind key government decisions on how to allocate and spend our tax dollars.

I hope you could understand my rationale and don't doubt on that.