Sentence examples for common sense to think from inspiring English sources
But it defies common sense to think that so many of the city's most respected restaurateurs have intentionally cheated their waiters — and continue to do so despite the threat of costly lawsuits that could drive them out of business.
"Isn't it just common sense to think that e-books should benefit from the same reduced VAT rates as physical books?" said Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the digital agenda, during a speech in Avignon, France, last month.
The White House contention that Mr. Kissinger will not be a full-time government official is technically correct, but it insults common sense to think that he will not be wielding considerable power in this role.
Losing new forms of rights would decrease the incentive to invest in new technologies, Ms. Dorsen said, adding it defied common sense to think that publishers would fail to keep the rights to a long-imagined format that might compete with their traditional books.
"It's only common sense to think that students are going to need widely varying amounts of instructional time in order to achieve the requisite standards," said Paul Reville, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who was chairman of the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning from 1993 to 1995.
Pettitte would also very likely be in position to know if Clemens used steroids and H.G.H. Players generally might not have stood around the water cooler and talked about steroids, but Clemens and Pettitte were so close — Clemens aborted a brief retirement to join Pettitte in Houston — it would defy common sense to think one didn't know what the other was doing.
Bank supervisors can impart only so much common sense to those who think they know best.Just when you thought it was safeBesides, the regulators' reluctance to second-guess bank executives was well founded, because it can take them onto dangerous ground.
"If more people spoil their paper when they vote, eventually, an MP's got to have the common sense to address that and think: why?" says Roger.
The rules of good email etiquette are widely documented, and will seem like common sense to most savvy modern workers: think before you send, don't needlessly copy everyone in, be brief, say nothing if you have nothing to say, don't send an email if a phonecall would work better, use other more appropriate tools for tasks like project management or editing shared documents.
It defies both science and common sense, however, to think singling out one product as a unique contributor to obesity will make a dent in the problem".
