The phrase "a sensible response to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an appropriate or reasonable reaction to a particular situation or issue.
Example: "In light of the recent events, a sensible response to the crisis would be to implement stricter safety measures."
Alternatives: "a rational reply to" or "a reasonable reaction to".
Mergers may indeed be a sensible response to excess capacity.
Individual voting registration is new too, but it's a sensible response to this sort of problem.
It's possible to see that this period of improvisation is a sensible response to modern conditions.
But then this seems like a sensible response to the cultural phenomenon that is The X Factor.
It's a sensible response to a changing transportation environment, with a clear social upside in terms of better public health, less traffic and lower emissions.
That might sound like Marxist dogma to some Tory ears, but it can just as easily be construed as a sensible response to the financial crisis.
Divestment from fossil fuel companies, like divestment from tobacco and South Africa, helps stigmatize companies whose business models are incompatible with any sensible response to climate change.
The apologists have not advanced any sensible response to that question.
Despite almost unanimous opposition from Republicans, Democrats pushed ahead with the bills, calling them a moderate, sensible response to mass shootings at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
At first sight, the concept would seem to be an eminently sensible response to the problem of suboptimal care of acutely ill hospitalised patients: you take critical care expertise to the patient before, rather than after, multiple organ failure or cardiac arrest occurs.
May described the elevated threat level and the rolling out of troops as "a proportionate and sensible response" to the bombing.
