"This is a common-sense case".
His tribute to Thomas Paine, Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government (2009), seemed to Beck, who wrote it over several 2 a.m. fits of energy, to have little commercial possibility; he planned to release it anonymously on the Web.
You can make a good case for its common sense plausibility for instance, many of our words for actions ('to warm', to 'lengthen', 'to ensure') are derived from the effects that are conventionally associated with them.
Friends of Navalny — and, you would think, common sense — say this case is a loser for Putin.
Mr. Khodorkovsky's lawyer, Vadim Klyuvgant, called the ruling "a first sign of common sense" in the case but said it could also be a legal feint that leads to a swift rejection in the lower court.
When someone justifies violence in a time of war, it is important to stop and ask what the point of such justification really is ("Violence can breed justice as well as injustice: When history and common sense make the case," Beliefs column, Oct. 27).
The ICO asks for companies to show common sense in such cases".
We find this situation frequently for hydrogen atoms: in many cases, their presence can be deduced from the geometry of the rest of the molecule or even from simple chemical common sense, in these cases we try to add these missing hydrogens.
But in this case, common sense is a matter of debate.
And in this case, common sense is telling us something different.
