Sentence examples for a common sense test from inspiring English sources

The answer to that is that in the vast majority of cases it should, with no government regulation, as long as the ad passes a common sense test of decency, as this billboard clearly does.

We know already that Silverlight doesn't pass a "common sense" test in terms of technology support; everyone knows HTML5 is the way to go, and Silverlight doesn't play that game.

Its officers say they achieved that record by running their bank the old-fashioned way: When people come in looking for a loan, they have to pass a common-sense test.

"Use the common sense test," Mr. Keating said.

She said the common sense test with expenses was community standards and expectations, not what the system allowed people to justify.

Fourth, the reported results of this poll just don't pass the common sense test.

When compared to the assigned DWs for moderate skin disfigurement with itch or pain (0.187), mild alcoholism (0.259), moderate rheumatoid arthritis (0.292), or even a pain in the neck (0.221), the VLEG authors note that the new DWs for blindness and VI simply do not pass the "common sense test".

And that's a sentiment that remains common among media elite, this idea that far-right media players sometimes get things wrong and that for everyone's benefit they ought to apply a common sense "smell test" before they run with controversial stories, like the one about Obama's India trip.

"She's using a common sense phonetic test".

The White House has admitted it has no "irrefutable" evidence of Mr Assad's involvement in the August attack, but said a "strong common-sense test irrespective of the intelligence" suggested his government was responsible.

"It is absolutely vital that we get this right," he told MPs. "There are many parts of our current arrangements that simply don't pass a simple common-sense test, in terms of access to housing, access to the health service, access to justice and other things which should be the right of all British citizens, but they're not the right of anyone who just chooses to come here".