'a reasonable incentive' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that motivates someone to do something, and is usually something attractive that is offered in exchange for certain actions. For example, "The company offered a reasonable incentive to employees who attended the training session - a free lunch."
Answering questions about a report in The Star-Ledger of Newark that he would ask for an increase to $1.30 a pack from 80 cents, Mr. McGreevey told reporters such an increase would be "a perfectly reasonable" incentive to quit smoking.
Among other things, the bill would allow inmates who work in UNICOR and those who complete reform-based programs to earn up to 120 days a year off their sentence, a seemingly reasonable incentive for good behavior.
"This is going to provide a pretty reasonable incentive for private attorneys to take on these cases," Mr. Scherer added.
This was a reasonable enlistment incentive for peacetime service, but it is an insufficient reward for wartime service today.
The Olympics not only provided, as Mr Cunningham remarked, "a reasonable political incentive" for smartening up Atlanta; they were also supposed to regenerate what white flight had destroyed.Regeneration of poor or neglected districts is often a side-ambition of cities.
Researchers in research institutes should also be motivated by giving them reasonable incentive in the form of research grants and all forms of moral support.
At the same time, the public sector can complement such efforts, providing every reasonable incentive for private-sector companies to collaborate and supporting activities where gaps remain.
The provision of reasonable incentives and a clear system of monitoring and follow-through will go a long way towards motivating the PEs to higher levels of performance.
When Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan last year, he argued in his initial assessment that there was a need for a program that would "offer eligible insurgents reasonable incentives to stop fighting and return to normalcy".
Let us consider reasonable incentives and their plausible outcome in the particular case of Chernobyl.
