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 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 is that since fear and anxiety causes increased stuttering, using easier stuttering and with less fear and avoidance, stuttering will decrease.

:: Without undertaking to survey the intricacies of the ripeness doctrine it is fair to say that its basic rationale is to prevent the courts, through avoidance of premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements over administrative policies, and also to protect the agencies from judicial interference until an administrative decision has been formalized and its effects felt in a concrete way by the challenging parties.

The rationale was that the name change would help the pursuit of a global strategy.

Without perhaps realizing it, Ribbentrop by placing Romania within the German sphere of influence undermined the main rationale for co-operation with the Soviet Union, since control of Romanian oil meant that Germany was no longer dependent upon Soviet oil.

The main rationale for externalism was that internal brain entities are not observable, and memetics cannot advance as a science, especially a quantitative science, unless it moves its emphasis onto the directly quantifiable aspects of culture.

According to Metcalfe, the rationale behind the sale of networking cards was that ( 1 ) the cost of the network was directly proportional to the number of cards installed, but ( 2 ) the value of the network was proportional to the square of the number of users.

Jones also believed that McVeigh was part of a larger conspiracy, and sought to present him as " the designated patsy ", but McVeigh disagreed with Jones arguing that rationale for his defense.

Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951, but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price besides which the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing.

Their rationale was that P2P is mostly used to share illegal content, and their infrastructure is not designed for continuous, high-bandwidth traffic.

Chief Justice John Roberts rejected this reasoning and this rationale was not cited in any dissenting justice opinions.

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.

Upon resolution of the conflict Kes decides to not re-initiate their intimacy ( the alien's original rationale was based on Kes ' own subconscious ), though the two do remain good friends thereafter.

Then a Marxist, George's stance was dominated by a socio-economic rationale, but without the structuralist interpretations found in the works of some the French sociologists of the time.

The rationale behind Segal's reasoning was that it is disrespectful to combine a Name of God with another word.

The rationale was that the defendant had no opportunity to challenge the credibility of and cross-examine the person making the statements.

The rationale was that a farmer's growing " his own wheat " can have a substantial cumulative effect on interstate commerce, because if all farmers were to exceed their production quotas, a significant amount of wheat would either not be sold on the market or would be bought from other producers.

It was the shortest of the documents and contained few, if any, references to the debates and the rationale that had gone into its making ; therefore, the changes to be brought about by the declaration on the Church's Relations with non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate, carried implications not fully appreciated at the time.

The arrival of Soviet missiles in Cuba was conducted by the Soviets on the rationale that the US already had nuclear missiles stationed in Turkey, as well as the desire by Fidel Castro to increase his power, his freedom of action, and to protect his government from US-initiated prejudicial resolution of ideological disputes through the use of military force, such as had been attempted during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961.

Although the rationale of diversification was sound ( to shield the company from cyclical aerospace and defence markets ) the struggling company could not afford to continue the position: " We simply could not afford to carry two core businesses, cars and aerospace.

The rationale for returning the value 1 for the indeterminate forms was that the value of functions at singular points can be taken as a particular value if that value is in the limit the value for all but a vanishingly small part of a ball around the limit value of the parameters.

; in most cases the purported rationale is lower current ( less heat ) and or matched ion mobilities, which leads to longer buffer life.

While the Torah does not state the rationale for most kashrut laws, many reasons have been suggested, including philosophical, practical and hygienic.

Whereas Greg had limited his illustrative examples to English Renaissance drama, where his expertise lay, Bowers argued that the rationale was " the most workable editorial principle yet contrived to produce a critical text that is authoritative in the maximum of its details whether the author be Shakespeare, Dryden, Fielding, Nathaniel Hawthorne, or Stephen Crane.

One empowerment strategy is to assist marginalized people to create their own nonprofit organization, using the rationale that only the marginalized people, themselves, can know what their own people need most, and that control of the organization by outsiders can actually help to further entrench marginalization.

For the most part, the Court has made these later rulings on the basis of Justice Harlan's substantive due process rationale.

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.

The most commonly stated rationale for the bride price in Thailand is that it allows the groom to demonstrate that he has enough financial resources to support the bride ( and possibly her family ) after the wedding.

The rationale for this theoretical vacuum is outlined in his 1998 paper and more recently in his books, most notably Humanizing Psychiatrists.

The rationale for the first appointments of HMI linked inspection to “ the improvement of elementary education ” and charged HMI to say “ what improvements in the apparatus and internal management of schools, in school management and discipline, and in the methods of teaching have been sanctioned by the most extensive experience ”.

The film stars Sam Shepherd as a man who survives a plane crash, then finds the love of his life ( Julie Delpy ) on his next trip and begins to question the rationale of his good luck after having spent most of his life being cruel to others.

The rationale given was that despite the fact that goblin shark sightings have been relatively rare, the worldwide distribution of the species, combined with the fact that it was not accidentally taken often as bycatch in fisheries, ensured that the species is most probably not in any reasonable danger of extinction.

With injector safety the most prominent rationale for the establishment of injecting rooms, the analysis questioned such low utilization rates in light of the room ’ s capacity for 330 injections per day, but where between 2001 and 2010 it had averaged just 185 injections per day.

The rationale for the designated hitter rule is that, with a few exceptions — most notably Babe Ruth, who began his career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox — pitchers are usually weak hitters who ordinarily perform once every four or five games.

The design rationale for log-structured file systems assumes that most reads will be optimized away by ever-enlarging memory caches.

Sears believes in a hormonal paradox contrary to the " low-fat / high carbohydrate " rationale of most diets ( including the USDA " Food Pyramid ").

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.

Fair use rationale: Screen grab of the most popular ( by volume sales ) Project Management Software, used to illustrate the Project Management Software page.

C. Peter Wagner describes Church planting as " the single most effective evangelistic methodology under heaven " and for its advocates this remains church planting's greatest rationale.

According to Lou Ferrigno, it was also changed because CBS thought the name Bruce sounded " too gay-ish ," a rationale that Ferrigno thought was " the most absurd, ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.

No reason is explicitly put forth ; however, one can assume the rationale is similar to that of Campbell's — to ensure that the renal pelvis and ureter are most anterior in the event that future surgical correction becomes necessary.

The rationale for this decision was explained by Bayrd Still, former University Professor of History and its first archivist, " It was deemed expedient to have the cooperation of representative women interested in the promotion of University work in the most advanced lines of study and investigation.

The rationale was to kill two birds with one stone, as it reduced running costs ( it would most likely be used only once in its working life, though it was regularly tested ) and the telephone lines were under constant test by sharing with a public service.

The rationale for this decision was that a building constructed purely of stone would be the most permanent structure possible.