He was persuaded to be more sensible.

Tom seems intelligent.

It seems reasonable.

Your suggestion seems reasonable.

Your suggestion seems reasonable.

That seems reasonable to me.

Does that seem reasonable to you?

Does that seem reasonable to you?

That plan seems reasonable to me.

By any reasonable definition, it is alive.

In other circumstances, it may be prudent to avoid revealing how much or how little is known about a given situation.

This is why the report is a careful and sensible document.

Making Mitt Romney seem the epitome of common sense

A sensible approach could be to hedge against intermediate level shocks.

The decision to nominate Bernanke is sensible on two counts.

By any sensible measure, Corzine s violation of the law was more serious than that of Tobias.

A second rationale for Germany s policy is demographic.

Then you want to know, you re a person, you want to know how is it made.

Nowadays, Europe is full of whispers that neo Finlandization might be a reasonable compromise for countries like Ukraine and Georgia.

Automatic enrollment creates a saving plan that is sensible for the typical person.

Replace conquest with profit and the response sounds more reasonable.

This may be the wiser course in many cases, but it is hardly inspiring.

In 1996, betting on Shiller s regression analyses was a reasonable and perhaps intelligent thing to do.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens.

Similarly, eliminating Glass Steagall was fundamentally sensible.

In today s reality, amid society s moral decay, I think it makes sense to remember this position.

In many ways, the Blair government s support of free market policies turned out to be a shrewd and productive shift.

China s military power has increased, but its behavior has been more moderate than it was a decade ago.

For example, we might reasonably ask whether they pay their fair share of taxes, or inquire about their charitable donations.

How can America see reasonably rapid output growth and yet rising unemployment? The answer is that the underlying trend of productivity growth in the American economy continues to be exceptionally positive.

The few emerging economies that have avoided booms and busts have done so by adhering to sound policy frameworks.

How can America see reasonably rapid output growth and yet rising unemployment?

Contrast this current condition of extended misery with the only sensible long term solution a pooling of IMF quotas by all eurozone countries.

From a narrowly British perspective, this might seem a shrewd and reasonable posture for defending British interests.

It is thus wise for Obama not to be out directing traffic in the crise du jour.

The most reasonable comparison is with Latin American countries during their debt crises in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

But when the major powers cooperate in a just cause, the world is a safer and saner place.

The exchange rate criterion could be assessed later on the basis of a narrower band, as the European Commission proposes, although a limit of 6 fluctuation on either side of the central parity seems more reasonable than 2.25 . Intervention inside the narrow band would be discouraged (banned?), so that rather than trying to force the foreign exchange market to fit the policies of a candidate country, we would be listening to what markets say about the best rate for conversion to the euro.

The exchange rate criterion could be assessed later on the basis of a narrower band, as the European Commission proposes, although a limit of 6 fluctuation on either side of the central parity seems more reasonable than 2.25 .

Finally, in a world divided by Yalta, communism was, for some, the only realistic choice for central Europe.

And foreign control only makes sense if it brings in the management know how that local entrepreneurs lack.

People do get HIV because they do stupid things, but most of them are doing stupid things for perfectly rational reasons.

When an economy is normalizing, it is reasonable to reduce expansionary measures, such as those introduced after the crisis of 2008.

They ought to be persuaded through a judicious mixture of carrots and sticks that strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions would work to their advantage.

To a country that had struggled for decades against British imperialism, however, neither capitalism nor openness to foreign investors seemed a prudent course.