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reason and for
He had a legitimate reason for wearing it.
They grounded him ( over his protests -- not including his true reason for wanting to fly ) and put him in the Command offices.
Why, that's his main reason for making the dive ''.
Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.
In the care-free indolence of the East he sees the last reflection of the old happy existence, and for that reason he loves it.
Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.
Hence, noting the simplicity achieved in Copernicus' formulation does not provide another reason for the acceptance of De Revolutionibus, another reason beyond its systematic superiority.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
`` The reason for that report was to settle the matter of the list.
`` How about your press conference three days later -- what was the reason for that??
Marshall pondered the reason for this, and pondered too the replacement of one member of the three-man group.
He also disliked Runyon, for no good reason other than the fact that the Demon's talent was so marked as to put him well beyond the Hetman's say-so or his supervision.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.
But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.
Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
He knew all about it and had put it down in journal form in The War In A Black Shirt, a wonderful book not, for some strange reason, published in the U.S..
( It is sort of as if our government should decide to disown Washington or Lincoln for the same reason.

reason and superior
It has been argued by John Mosier that, while the French soldiers in 1940 were better trained than German soldiers, as were the Americans later, and the German army was the least mechanised of the major armies, its leadership cadres were both larger and superior and their high standards of leadership were the primary reason for the successes of the German army in World War Two as it had been in World War One.
In fact, the commission has very little to do with the regulation of mobile phone service, outside of " undue preference " issues ( for example, a carrier offering a superior rate or service to some subscribers and not others without a good reason ).
Opinion remains divided on which cut is superior ; Peter Jackson and his writing partners, the main cast and WETA as a whole, regard the Extended Edition as the superior cut, while detractors believe such scenes were left out for a reason.
" For Coke, human nature determined the purpose of law ; and law was superior to any one man's reason or will.
The primary reason was not performance, but the PDP-11's superior real-time responsiveness.
His reason for this strange assertion is that visions are superior to waking reality, as divine is superior to human.
In Agatha Christie's Poirot series of books, Poirot often has a tisane and accounts this as being the reason why his " little grey cells " are superior to others.
The ego represents what may be called reason and common sense, in contrast to the id, which contains the passions ... in its relation to the id it is like a man on horseback, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse ; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength, while the ego uses borrowed forces.
John Mueller summed up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable ".
Mueller sums up Rogers's abilities as follows: " Rogers was outstanding among Astaire's partners not because she was superior to others as a dancer, but because, as a skilled, intuitive actress, she was cagey enough to realize that acting did not stop when dancing began ... the reason so many women have fantasized about dancing with Fred Astaire is that Ginger Rogers conveyed the impression that dancing with him is the most thrilling experience imaginable.
::( 3 ) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
Another reason for the switch is that the sound technology used in The Public Enemy was superior to that used in earlier films, making it no longer imperative to have an actor in the lead role who had impeccable enunciation.
The official reason given was that Srinivas Venkataraghavan was preferred due to his superior experience on English soil, but most observers believed that Gavaskar was punished because he was believed to be considering defecting to World Series Cricket.
" No nation ," wrote Helvétius, " has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.
Conclusively, the appeal to emotion fallacy presents a perspective intended to be superior to reason.
One reason many First Lords chose not to live in Number 10 was that most were peers who owned homes superior in size and quality.
" A century later, an English historian asserted that the reason Jane had testified against them was based purely on her " inveterate hatred " of Queen Anne, which sprang from jealousy at Anne's superior social skills and George's preference for his sister's company to his wife's.
The second reason is that the dog is a shameless animal, and they make a cult of shamelessness, not as being beneath modesty, but as superior to it.
Despite this, he did make clear that he believed revelation was a superior source of knowledge to reason because it guaranteed matters of faith that reason could not uncover.
He repeatedly insisted that all Jews could reach the same level as he, and spoke out very strongly against those who thought that the main reason for a Rebbe's greatness was the superior level of his soul.
Fideism is an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths ( see natural theology ).

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