The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.

Accounting procedures can be varied to provide a rationale for almost any price.

The rationale for this avoidance was most frequently expressed in economic terms ; ;

The rationale for this is the defendant's right to silence.

More recently, James Page has suggested that aesthetic ethics might be taken to form a philosophical rationale for peace education.

The Court went on to note that even if the defendant could have shown that he would not have entered a guilty plea " but for " the rationale of receiving a lesser sentence, the plea itself would not have been ruled invalid.

The compelling rationale for this was the integral role technology now plays in our lives, which was not present in 1996.

Many states still prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premise sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the rationale that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.

In his monograph " Beethoven — the ninth symphony ", Professor David Levy describes the rationale for these changes and the danger of calling the editions Urtext.

From the Hellenic system onwards, the policy rationale for requiring the payment of monetary compensation for wrongs committed has involved the avoidance of feuding between clans and families.

It met with stronger resistance in the Senate — some Senators objected to the change of name ; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, and George McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more " dignified way "— but finally passed.

The stated rationale for cryonics is that people who are considered dead by current legal or medical definitions may not necessarily be dead according to the more stringent information-theoretic definition of death.

The rationale for the rule change was to help reduce dead time in the game.

* Poor planning: Initiatives can easily fail when efforts are limited to choosing and deploying software, without an accompanying rationale, context, and support for the workforce.

A typical legal rationale for protecting the consumer is based on the notion of policing market failures and inefficiencies, such as inequalities of bargaining power between a consumer and a business.

He states the rationale for this as follows:

The valuable concepts behind RDP practice, in a short time provided the rationale for applicability of it in industries.

The New York Times reported in September 1906 on the rationale for the changes: " The main efforts of the football reformers have been to ' open up the game '— that is to provide for the natural elimination of the so-called mass plays and bring about a game in which speed and real skill shall supersede so far as possible mere brute strength and force of weight.

The game design rationale for requiring the snap to be a quick and continuous motion to the backfield is to eliminate the need for rules provisions for a live ball in scrimmage.

Perplexed by the seemingly chaotic, incessant improvisation on the set, Deena Boyer, the director ’ s American press officer at the time, asked for a rationale.

Thus, if there is no alternate rationale for prosecuting some people more harshly for the same crime based on who the victim is, then different defendants are treated unequally under the law, which violates the United States Constitution.

The rationale of this position is the assertion that raising children is a very important activity ( childfree author Virginia Postrel calls it " the most important work most people will ever do "), and so not engaging in this activity must therefore mean living one's life in service to one's self.

" Talking to his autonomist followers was much the same as speaking with cult converts anywhere in the world: a wooden dead-end dialogue hallmarked by the absence of individual rationale and logic.

According to one author, Spare's magical rationale was as follows, " If the psyche represses certain impulses, desires, fears, and so on, and these then have the power to become so effective that they can mold or even determine entirely the entire conscious personality of a person right down to the most subtle detail, this means nothing more than the fact that through repression (" forgetting ") many impulses, desires, etc.

Iverson described the rationale behind array programming ( actually referring to APL ) as follows:

: The rationale for the differing selectivities is as follows: Both products result from Markovnikov protonation at position 1, resulting in a resonance-stabilized allylic cation.

For example, if one follows the first interpretation, then the holding in the case should be viewed as the narrowest rationale supported by all of the concurring opinions read together as though it were a single majority opinion, and where there is a conflict, the opinion based on the narrowest ground governs.

The observation that bi-carbonate production is impaired early in chronic pancreatitis has led to the rationale of use of this test in early stages of disease ( sensitivity of 95 %).

Foucault then develops a holistic account of power and uses methods not too dissimilar to the astonishing and outstanding Medieval Islamic polymaths scholars Alhazen, Ibn Sīnā, and Ibn Khaldūn and to a lesser extant prominent science figures from 20th century science such as ; Gregory Bateson, James Lovelock ( the founder of Gaia hypothesis ) and Robert N. Proctor ( Proctor who coined the term Agnotology ) and urges us to think outside the box of this new kind of power, therefore, opening up the possibilities of further investigations into this new perceived, impenetrable nature of biopower and according to Foucault he asks us to remember, this type of power is never neutral nor is it independent from the rest of society but are embedded within society functioning as embellished ' control technology ' specifics. Foucault argues ; nation states, police, government, legal practices, human sciences and medical institutions have their own rationale, cause and effects, strategies, technologies, mechanisms and codes and have managed successfully in the past to obscure there workings by hiding behind observation and scrutiny.

Foucault insists social institutions such as governments, laws, religion, politics, social administration, monetary institutions, military institutions cannot have the same rigorous practices and procedure with claims to independent knowledge like those of the human sciences ; such as mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, physics, genetics and the biological sciences for example so its workings ( and therefore, its rationale and acceptance ) consent to making it imperative that its ' substance ' has too function as axiomatic strategic logic to be accomplished by other methods obscurity, invisibility, sanctions and if necessary by ' cohesion ' ( by those caught within the networks ) or, failing that, coercion not coercion through threat but by your own rationality as " what is the alternative "?

A totalitarian democratic state is said to maximize its control over the lives of its citizens, using the dual rationale of general will ( i. e., " public good ") and majority rule.

Today, mental incapacity as a defense, when successfully raised, absolves a defendant in a criminal trial from liability, that is to say it applies public policies in relation to criminal responsibility by applying a rationale of compassion, accepting that it is morally wrong to subject a person to punishment if that person is deprived permanently or temporarily of the capacity to form a necessary mental intent that the definition of a crime requires.

This form of territorial jurisdiction developed from the rationale of in rem jurisdiction, namely that seizure of the property was reasonably calculated to inform an individual of the proceedings against them.

The rationale against a ban of the product also takes the form that deaths have been too few for it to be considered a serious danger.

The application of De Morgan's theorem to a conjunction is very similar to its application to a disjunction both in form and rationale.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

The rationale is that starting with the master in this form, anything can be done with the music – cut new rolls, operate player pianos fitted with electronic valves, or simulate a performance for playing on modern instruments – all without introducing any errors.

Thus, if the rationale of the excuse is that children below a certain age lack the capacity to form the mens rea of an offense, this may no longer be a sustainable argument.

This fact has been referenced by the prime minister's office as a rationale for making the 40-page long census form voluntary.

Eloquence is both a natural talent and improved by knowledge of language, study of a specific subject to be addressed, philosophy, rationale and ability to form a persuasive set of tenets within a presentation.

While many accounts place the rising as a form of blood sacrifice, FitzGerald discussed its wider rationale with the leader Patrick Pearse, and with Joseph Plunkett who had travelled to Germany in 1915 for assistance.

This form of prostitution, which was mentioned in the rationale of the 2002 prostitution law as providing good working conditions for the women, exists all over Germany and parts of the Netherlands, but mainly in the Rhein-Ruhrgebiet and in the area around Frankfurt am Main.

In many of its WNTD themes and related publicity-materials, the WHO emphasizes the idea of “ truth .” Theme titles such as “ Tobacco kills, don ’ t be duped ” ( 2000 ) and “ Tobacco: deadly in any form or disguise ” ( 2006 ) indicate a WHO belief that individuals may be misled or confused about the true nature of tobacco ; the rationale for the 2000 and 2008 WNTD themes identify the marketing strategies and “ illusions ” created by the tobacco industry as a primary source of this confusion.

Under the rationale that Liu Bei was asking for help in Xiaopei to fight Lu Bu, Cao finally relinquished his war against Zhang Xiu, and sent envoys to ask the latter to form an alliance, which Zhang agreed upon the term that a marriage be arranged between the two families.

With the scientific rationale for " colon cleansing " disproven, the idea fell into disrepute as a form of quackery, with a recent medical review stating that " there is no evidence to support this ill-conceived theory that has been long abandoned by the scientific community.

Caesarism is a form of political rule that emulates the rule of Roman dictator Julius Caesar over the Roman Republic, in that it is led by a charismatic strongman whose rule is based upon a cult of personality, whose rationale is the need to rule by force, establishing a violent social order, and being a regime involving prominence of the military in the government.

Even though the Ostmarkenverein had lost its main rationale as Germany had no influence over the lands of the Republic of Poland, it continued to exist in a rump form.

Chumbley believed that the natural manifestation of magical gnosis and power occurs through creative activity: " Dreaming and the mutual translation of dreamt ritual and ritual-as-dreamt form the basic rationale and context for our work.

The Practical Project takes the form of a short film ( 4 – 5 minutes at SL and 6 – 7 minutes at HL ) and a production portfolio and rationale about the work undertaken.

The main rationale behind the use of the 5. 25-inch form factor was that the typical PC user already owns cases that made provision for 5. 25-inch drives, and by using lower data densities and fewer moving parts, Quantum was able to deliver the products at lower prices, thus more competitively.

Tantawy ’ s rationale was based on an interpretation of the Islamic sources as banning usury ( an extreme and manipulative form of interest-taking ) but not any and all comparable forms of gain.