He called his bill "a common-sense alternative".
McCormick saw his beloved "Chicagoland," a term he coined, as a kind of ultra-normal, common-sense alternative to the excesses of the East and West Coasts.
To its supporters, a bill offered by the House Republican leadership to rewrite the nation's campaign finance laws is a common-sense alternative to legislation that would ban unrestricted soft-money donations to the national parties.
In fact, the language they use makes their plan sound like a simple, common sense, no-brainer alternative to the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare).
"We will certainly face many battles in Congress in the coming months that will give us the opportunity to clearly articulate the failures of liberalism and the common sense of conservative alternatives," Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, said Thursday on Facebook.
In this context, we have urgent problems to solve and the potential for using science and common sense to find alternatives.
We also took into account our a priori prediction, common sense, comparison of viable alternative models and detail evaluation of parameter estimates (see Marsh et al. 2013).
Mathematicians are trained to reject a proof by cases unless the cases exhaust all the possibilities; but typical instances of common sense reasoning neglect some alternatives.
Kevin Maguire in the Mirror praised McDonnell's "good common sense" and thought his "revolutionary alternative might fly", concluding: "Labour's bank manager has opened for business - and with great style".
Now he claimed he was sampling that alternative life — but common sense, self-protection, could not be grafted on by visiting a campus or accumulating elegant business suits.
Common Sense Model (CSM) is one such alternative [ 22].
