Tom seems intelligent.

It seems reasonable.

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.

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?

He was persuaded to be more sensible.

That plan seems reasonable to me.

By any reasonable definition, it is alive.

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

Making Mitt Romney seem the epitome of common sense

Or at least, to consider perhaps a quite different question where would it be reasonable for the EU to move?

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

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.

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

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.

Some companies have easier access to capital, whereas their competitors cannot get access to finance at reasonable interest rates.

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.

Prohibition of certain transactions for prudential reasons also makes sense, particularly for borrowing in foreign currencies by economic agents that do not have revenues in those currencies.

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.

As welcome as Clinton s recent clear words were on the need to defend the right of countries to decide their own fate, you don t have to go very far in Europe to hear whispers that some kind of new Finlandization might be a reasonable compromise for countries like Ukraine and Georgia.

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.

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

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

Instead, we should look for smarter policy options, like aiming to ensure that alternative energy technologies at reasonable prices will be available within the next 20 40 years.