Sentence examples for a sensible aim from inspiring English sources

Manufacturing's share of GDP has long been stuck at around 10%, and much of that has involved making pretty basic stuff like bulk chemicals.For all the country's huge reserves of cheap crude, the recent slump in the oil price makes that seem a sensible aim.

Although care should be taken when applying behavioral findings from North America to the United Kingdom (countries have different energy pricing structures, heating and cooling systems with different fuel mixes), designing interventions which have a high potential to lead to behavior change in combination with a high potential for energy demand reduction seems a sensible aim.

In general, reforms have attempted to grant greater autonomy to management, to impose financial discipline, to encourage firms to merge and restructure, and to expose them to competition.Fine in theoryThese are all sensible aims.

But for the foreseeable future, autonomy, not independence, is by far the most sensible aim.

The sensible aim is to raise more money — roughly $1 trillion over 10 years — than under the current system.

The sensible aim of American foreign policy surely is to be rid of Noriega as soon as possible so we can get on to important things.

Prime ministers who want to devolve power from central government find themselves having to hoard it within their own office in order to achieve that sensible aim.

Chancellor Kenneth Clarke said in 1995 that he had delivered a "sensible" Budget aimed at sustaining Britain's long term economic recovery.

As a philosopher he accepted strict limitations on the faculties of the mind, and his political philosophy is moderate and sensible, aimed at a balance of power between the executive, the judiciary, and the legislature, though with a bias toward the last (see separation of powers; checks and balances).

Barber says that she has tried "to avoid cod Elizabethan" and also to "strike a balance between authenticity and readability" – both sensible aims, but neither prosecuted with enough flair to prevent the poem from stumbling quite often into Elizabethan-lite: "Still, the past draws me like a jug of beer / back to the moments when my star was high.

In an afterword, Lemann calls for a more democratic educational policy, focused on improving the "bad bottom tier of public schools" and sending "most people all the way through college". Those are both sensible aims.