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.

Making Mitt Romney seem the epitome of common sense

He was persuaded to be more sensible.

By any reasonable definition, it is alive.

This sounds eminently sensible until you realize that Barroso is comparing two entirely different issues.

It seems plausible that two years is long enough for retraining, after which the employee might command a higher wage without a government subsidy.

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

At first glance, this vision seems entirely reasonable after all, most countries prefer to manage domestic and regional affairs without the meddling of outside powers.

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.

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.

Although the IMF seems particularly enthusiastic about using wealth taxes to resolve debt overhangs in Spain and Italy, some burden sharing with the north seems reasonable.

Sound familiar?

'I think I do.

I think I understand.

What seems simple to you seems complex to me.

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.

But, because fetuses, at least at the stage of development when most abortions are performed, have yet to develop any kind of consciousness, it seems reasonable to regard ending their lives as much less serious than killing a normal human being.

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 .

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?

Irrationality seems to have taken over.

There seems to be a pattern.

The conclusion seems straightforward.

That seems unlikely.