Translation of "Rationales handeln" in English

The efficient use of energy requires factors that motivate, facilitate and reinforce rational and responsible behaviour.

For a possible human rational action we need maximum input for our decision-making processes as individuals, as a society and civilization,

A firmly based evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of health care structures and processes is therefore an essential prerequisite for a rational health care policy.

This raises the possibility that rational-egoistic economic action may undermine social conditions that it requires for its continued viability – and that, paradoxically and unintentionally, social countermovements against market expansion may ensure that rational utility maximization, where it is socially licensed, remains socially and technically viable.

Rationality and – especially with regard to reducing emissions – technological neutrality are two commitments for nuclear fission.

Acting rational never guarantees to act rightly, seen from a holistic perspective.

The best thing to do now would be temporarily to weaken, if not repeal, various labour, environmental, social, health and other "standards", because they block rational human activity more than anything else.

Thorough evaluation of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness on novel health care approaches is a key precondition to rational decision-making, and thus supports translation of innovation, up to everyday health care. The objective of the Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM) is to contribute to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of health care.

We must think and act rationally if we are to achieve sensible results.

I hope that the Council of Ministers is intending to act rationally.

The brass thinks they'll act rationally, but there's no evidence of that.

I'm just saying you're not acting rationally.

Sometimes they did not rationally understand or behave according to the law.

They may also be rational numbers.

Europe is showing that it can act as one, in solidarity and rationally.

In his rational thinking and acting already the spirit of enlightenment shows”

Both assume that in economic terms humans only act with bounded rationality.

In view of the above, let us act rationally if we are to act at all on this matter, so that this is a global process, for only then will it be effective.

And if economic actors are always rational, then no bubbles – irrational market responses – are allowed.

But intelligence tests are also radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning, which is evident from the simple fact that many people display a systematic inability to think or behave rationally despite having a more than adequate IQ.

The problem is not caused by human irrationality; on the contrary, it arises precisely because bankers are acting rationally.

While in play, they are supposed to act as pure rational beings who leave behind their everyday passions and emotions, personal wishes or fears.

My "stupid" body was insisting on holding things together, on acting "rationally".

The WAIS is founded on Wechsler's definition of intelligence, which he defined as "... the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment."

Assuming that the professional investors, bankers, venture capitalists and other actors, are rational, they invest only if they expect the enterprise to return the capital and if they anticipate a capital gain.

We, the foundation, feel that these issues still evoke so much guilt that they are preventing us, as a country, from undertaking rational political action.