The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

`` 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??

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 great spectacle was a source of rancor, and Son et Lumiere, which the French were trying to promote with the Athenians, was the reason.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

But Edward was invading Scotland for precisely the same reason, and his insubordinate vassal was the ally of the king of France.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

There was good reason for Gen. Taylor to make an inspection trip at this time.

The three would never meet again, but for some reason or other Mr. Podger was sure he would always remember the incident.

The reason was to speed up domestic production in the USSR, which Khrushchev promised upon grabbing power, and try to end the permanent recession in Russian living standards.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

With good reason it appeared that a new day was upon divided Christendom.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

He explained his errand, but without bothering much to make it plausible, for he felt something well up in him which was the reason why he had fled the army.

One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen.

He was not going to lose the mission by default, and whatever reason Kayabashi had for bringing his little sight-seeing group to the mission, he was going to be in for a surprise.

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

The reason why Commodore decided not to use the upper five tracks by default ( or at least more than 35 ) was the bad quality of some of the drive mechanisms which did not always work reliably at the highest tracks.

Historians estimate that the reason for the rapid capitulation of Mieszko II was the bad internal situation in the country.

Ethical intuitionists think the evidence comes not from science or reason but from our own feelings: good deeds make us feel a certain way and bad deeds make us feel very differently.

He comments that he now has an Ambassador that he can go targ hunting with and that, for this reason, " perhaps being Chancellor won't be so bad after all ".

She gives not only herself reason, but also gives readers, and women, reason to believe that women are not bad creatures and have a significant place within society.

One possible reason is that Glycerius ' elevation, not recognised by Eastern court, received the support of neither the Roman Senate nor the Gallic-Roman aristocracy ; resisting Nepos without the support of the Senate would have been a bad choice for Gundobad.

Therefore, the number is identified with chaos and the reason Persians leave their houses to avoid bad luck on the thirteenth day of the Persian Calendar, a tradition called Sizdah Bedar.

All actions are either good or bad, since impulses and desires rest upon free consent, and hence even passive mental states or emotions that are not guided by reason are immoral, and produce immoral actions.

The main reason why the Arago spot is hard to observe in circular shadows from conventional light sources is that such light sources are bad approximations of point sources.

The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the immorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity ( Yahoos ); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.

If the call was wrong, the caller of a penalty can be given the card back with a reason of " bad call " or " frivolous card-giving ", although it is not uncommon for that player to simply get the card returned to them for talking.

The reason this is important is because it is theorised by supporters of the bad quarto theory that it is the original version of The Shrew upon which A Shrew was based ; not the version which appears in the 1623 Folio.

There are no stops, rest periods, or established finish line, and the Walk does not pause for any reason ( including bad weather or darkness ); it ends only when one Walker is left alive.

' For it was necessary, owing to the different methods of education, to speak of the differences of belief among men, some of whom are more, others less fortunate in their belief ; and from this to proceed to show that what is termed good or bad fortune would appear to contribute even in the case of the most talented, to their appearing to be more fully endowed with reason and to give their assent on grounds of reason to the majority of human opinions.

A final possible reason is that Iphigenia sees bad in her father and now has nothing to live for.

Milton's central argument was that the individual is capable of using reason and distinguishing right from wrong, good from bad.

The solution was to incorporate an ' event handler ' for the hardware detected condition (' data exception )' that would intercept the occasional errant data field and either ' report, correct and continue ' or, more usually, abort the run with a core dump to try to determine the reason for the bad data.

# improving aerodynamics ; ( part of the reason that SUVs get such bad fuel economy is the drag on the car.

For this reason, ferreting out the bad faith SLAPP claim at an early stage of litigation should be accomplished with relative ease.

The personal character of Malherbe was far from amiable, and the good as well as bad side of Malherbe's theory and practice is excellently described by his contemporary and rival Mathurin Régnier, who was animated against Malherbe, not merely by reason of his own devotion to Ronsard but because of Malherbe's discourtesy towards Régnier's uncle Philippe Desportes, whom the Norman poet had at first distinctly plagiarized.

In their opinion, human reason is not sufficiently powerful to know everything and for this reason humans need revelation in order to reach conclusions concerning what is good and what is bad for them.