And with our minds we can rationalize anything.

First Committees Chairs are taking initiatives to rationalize the agenda and resolutions.

This analysis suggests the need to further rationalize procurement practices of the organizations.

When a stock market boom reaches historic proportions, a story always develops to rationalize it.

My delegation welcomes the reforms undertaken by the Court to rationalize and improve its work.

The Committee welcomes the measures designed to rationalize the institutional framework for efforts to combat discrimination.

It is less easy to rationalize why the US government is continuing to run budget deficits despite a cyclical boom.

And it is hard to rationalize so atavistic an effort being initiated by a government and supported with taxpayers money.

Now is the moment to launch an analogous effort to reform and rationalize the political process that produces fiscal policy.

To rationalize the efficacy of this approach, the Fed has rewritten the script on the transmission mechanism of discretionary monetary policy.

The governing bodies of UNDG organizations should task the respective executive heads with examining ways to further rationalize their field presence.

We welcome measures taken in recent years to rationalize the work of the Registry, including the greater use of information technology.

Welcoming the efforts undertaken so far to rationalize and improve the functioning and impact of United Nations funds, programmes and specialized agencies,

With the advent of Mercosur, the regional common market, Ford was finally able to rationalize its product line ups in those countries.

To move the item to the plenary would be to ignore efforts to reform and rationalize the work of the General Assembly.

In that regard, we must rationalize the Assembly's agenda and working methods to ensure that our annual deliberations yield meaningful and tangible outcomes.

This approach helped the municipal government identify priority families and communities for intervention, as well as rationalize the allocation of its social development funds.

In their effort to overcome centuries of military and commercial backwardness, Muslims have sought to industrialize, rationalize administration, and adopt modern forms of political life.

The coordination of external efforts will serve to rationalize the use of resources and to mobilize greater material and financial resources for optimizing service delivery.

In conclusion, Mr. President, allow me to express my delegation's appreciation to His Excellency Ambassador Heinsberg for his efforts to rationalize our work at the CD.

In that connection, his delegation welcomed the proposals to strengthen and centralize communications through the web site, rationalize information centres and improve the management of United Nations libraries.

The Russian Federation supported further measures to rationalize the modalities of the United Nations presence in recipient countries in terms of increased use of common premises and services.

To ensure more efficient and effective desks and in order to rationalize them, OIOS recommended that the desk structures be reviewed with the aim to develop a standard.

Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.

At issue, especially in Africa, is also how countries can rationalize the composition and functions of the regional economic communities to ensure that they improve trade and investment opportunities.

When the simple device of a merger is used, the inherent thematic integrity of a draft resolution cannot be preserved unless sponsors have decided to rationalize the text through consultations.

Her delegation remained convinced that one way to rationalize the work of the General Assembly was to ensure a better allocation of agenda items between the plenary Assembly and the Committees.

Of interest, too, is the novel legal framework used by the TCP to rationalize its decision, in a seeming effort to reconcile Bolivian constitutional principles with international treaties and traditional indigenous beliefs.

Legislation has sought to rationalize the rules governing nationality, applying the two principles of acquisition of nationality by filiation (jus sanguinis), and the determination of nationality by place of birth (jus soli).

We welcome the Court's efforts to rationalize its operations and working methods, including the recent amendments to the Rule of the Court in order to prevent delays in the consideration of cases.

Budgeting methods had improved and were based on precise results, which ought to make it possible to rationalize the use of funds allocated to programmes and projects, while also facilitating expenditure monitoring.

So what does this imply about the Fed s willingness to taper its pace of asset purchases? Ironically, it might help to rationalize the decision to begin tapering before the end of the year.

The key economic policy goals should be to rationalize public spending, rein in the growth in the money supply in order to tame inflation, stem capital outflows, and address utility rates and subsidies.

Therefore, we want to underscore the measures the Court has adopted to rationalize the work of the secretariat to make better use of information technology and to improve its working methods and its rules.

The Union welcomed the efforts being made to rationalize the use of aircraft with the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and hoped that the practice would be maintained.

How can the reporting process leading up to the CRIC sessions and the sessions themselves be judged in terms of workload, time efficiency, and cost effectiveness? Could opportunities to rationalize time and resources be identified?

The budget was an instrument that could help the United Nations reform its operations and rationalize the structure of its expenditure, in order to strengthen its operating capacities and the effectiveness of its execution mechanisms.

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do.

The Dodd Frank Act did succeed in putting the OTS out of its misery, but jealous congressional oversight committees have prevented a merger of the SEC and CFTC, and nothing has been done to rationalize banking supervision.

Indeed, the nuclear issue has served to rationalize the face off, with Iran s leaders playing to their domestic audience by whipping up nuclear nationalism and the US playing to the international audience by harping on the proliferation threat.

They included the need for an external desk review for WIPO, freezing the budget until the review has been completed, as well as measures to rationalize personnel practices and strengthen the effectiveness and independence of the oversight function.

While continuing to provide a range of service lines, UNOPS will rationalize and streamline its corporate and support structures to reduce its fixed cost base, introduce activity based costing, and price its services to ensure full cost recovery.

Increasingly, ICT initiatives have to rationalize the use of resources across different organizations in the United Nations family, and it is pivotally important to assure that such solutions, directly or indirectly, support work to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action underlined the importance of preserving and strengthening the system of special procedures and specified that the procedures and mechanisms should be enabled to harmonize and rationalize their work through periodic meetings (Part II, para.

The General Assembly should also work to rationalize the use of consultants, ensuring that they were not used as a replacement or substitute for posts, and should consider consolidating the multiple United Nations liaison offices in North America and Europe.