Two of the three proposed requirements - courses on women and American minorities - lack clear intellectual rationale.

What started as an effort to increase national savings and investment is now a cause leacking any clear economic rationale.

There was no clear rationale for our intervention.

There is no clear rationale for why this pattern of data exists.

Both seemed to lack a clear rationale for why they were running.

An alternative explanation has suggested that executive function tests that demonstrate a clear rationale are passed by individuals with autism.

Perhaps the commission will provide a clear rationale for subsidized crop insurance.

Lastly is the point that the Fund's policies lack a clear economic rationale.

There is a clear rationale for narrowly targeted diplomatic expulsions.

But that would have required a clear rationale for the democratic franchise, a clear principle telling us who should vote and why.