(1) The rationalisation affected people and products.

(2) A striking example of rationalisation was the wholesale closure of the Severn Tunnel Junction marshalling yard complex in November 1987.

(3) Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss.

(4) It is the last part of the rationalisation that took place after the merger of Beecham and SmithKline Beckman in 1989.

(5) The enlarged Group provides enhanced opportunities for portfolio rationalisation through sales and asset swaps.

(6) Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year.

(7) Eight maids a-milking Rationalisation is not finished yet in the Northern Ireland dairy industry.

(8) In the mills additional factors have been rationalisation and the use of more modern machinery.

(9) Amalgamations were part of cooperative rationalisation in a drive to improve trading, but for Barnes this one had a distinct political dimension. Sentencedict.com

(10) The legal market is being driven by economic rationalisation, demographic saturation, marketplace maturation, consumer-driven deregulation and globalisation.

(11) Once the rationalisation programme is in place, Waterford will be well placed to become profitable once the worldwide recession ends.

(12) The implementation of the rationalisation programme left a lasting impression on Finniston which was to influence his future operating style.

(13) But otherwise you are caught in a rationalisation.

(14) Another challenge will be to carry out rationalisation in Europe in the face of political opposition.

(15) Second, remember that rationalisation tends to reduce the emotional impact of both positive and negative events.

(16) He said it was possible to apply this rationalisation to non-IT examples including the US's War on Terror.

(17) The maintenance, upkeep , checking, repair, upgrading, rationalisation and extension of plants complete the available services.

(18) The menace in that, as everyone knows, is that with system comes rationalisation and loss of vitality.

(19) Three other schools are to have ballots of parents on opting out(sentencedict.com), in response to regional rationalisation plans.

(20) All manufacturing units have been consolidated into United Distillers Production Inc., thus allowing for significant rationalisation and productivity enhancement.

(21) He said the continuing difficulties had meant 1,100 jobs going last year, contributing to rationalisation costs of ￡6 million.

(22) The workforce in distribution began to decline with increased concentration in retailing, rationalisation and the development of larger stores.

(23) Aviation has thus missed out on the sort of global rationalisation that occurs in most other industries.

(24) Flexibility is only recognised as business value when it accelerates operationalising business requirements or reduces the cost of operational systems by allowing their rationalisation.

(25) HSBC has always sought to rationalise its money market funds where possible. We are now, but that said I think we are down to a pretty lean core and I don't expect significant further rationalisation.

(26) Its steelmakers may be protected and inefficient now, but sooner or later rationalisation and greater technical skill will produce big firms that can make cheap steel.

(27) It has huge social and cultural landscapes displaying many relationship pairs between man and society, reality and ideal, non- rationalisation and rationalisation .

(28) But all I've heard is a lot of legalistic double talk and rationalisation.