So it's not a great job, but for a lot of people it really is quite a rational choice.

But do all individuals benefit from taking such an approach to choice?

The first generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents' approach to choice.

SADC upheld the principle of gender equality as a necessary and rational approach to economic growth, poverty reduction and overall human development.

And when with modern bureaucracy there was a very rational approach, where there was a clear distinction between the private sphere and the public sphere.

Often the choice depends less on a rational assessment of similarities and differences than on gut feelings, proclivities to optimism or pessimism, or political orientation. Currently, two dates are circulating widely, 1907 and 1931.

Terrorists, they're rational.

Markets Rational Complacency

Maintain rational thought.

Now who is rational?

His argument is rational.

They're not rational about probability.

I don't think that's rational.

Mother Theresa, she was rational.

Pretty much everybody is rational.

The Year of Rational Pessimism

Thus was born the field of rational choice political economy, and a style of theorizing that many political scientists readily emulated. The apparent payoff was that we could now explain why politicians did so many things that violated economic rationality.

We're social animals, not rational animals.

Instead of defaulting to our normal convergent approach where we make the best choice out of available alternatives, it encourages us to take a divergent approach, to explore new alternatives, new solutions, new ideas that have not existed before.

What's rational for public health is also rational for individual sex workers because it's really bad for business to have another STI.

Multiply and express as a simplified rational.

You know, what if people are rational?

We've got what's rational for public health.

Are we any more rational about sex?

In theory, we're thinking, rational human beings.

The choice of the approach, to a large degree, will depend on the Working Group's view on which types of purchases will be eligible for procurement using ERAs.

So she was making a politically rational decision.

(b) The similarities between a communications procedure allowing reservations and an opt out approach (outlined above), and whether the choice of one would preclude the use of the other

The characteristics of the regulated industry are also an important factor in the choice of regulatory framework, such that more than one approach may be employed within a country.

There are over eight words for what they call animal favoritism selective proceptivity, mate choice, female choice, sexual choice.

And you have to have rational projections and stuff.

Five is a bit much. Probably four is rational.

Rational self interest is not always the dominating factor.

So they're all well documented deviations from rational behavior.

Elizabeth Pisani Sex, drugs and HIV let's get rational

So, let's start with what's rational for an addict.

So, suddenly it becomes perfectly rational to share needles.

Increasing women's participation in the rational management of resources.

I think there are only two exceptions that I'm aware of two year olds, they are not rational, they have very fickle preferences, they switch what they think all the time, and schizophrenics are probably not rational, but pretty much everybody else is rational.

The success of the balance of terror presupposed a mixture of confrontation and dialogue between two rational actors. Can Iran under Ahmadinejad be considered a rational actor?

The expert review team shall justify and document the technical reason for its decision, and for its choice of the alternative approach used, and include this information in the review report.

So it becomes quite rational to deny services to injectors.

Starting from now, I am going to be more rational.

Is there in this an oath for a rational person?

Is there in this an oath for a rational person?