The English cried foul treachery, but the Spanish dismissed the action as sensible tactics when dealing with pirates.
He called on the Bank of England to pump more cash into the British economy, saying a further round of quantitative easing (QE) would be "sensible" given the "flatness" of growth, but dismissed talk of proposals for a £5bn spending increase.
But the arguments Feldstein uses are one that I thought every sensible economist — a group I thought included Feldstein — had dismissed as bogus years ago.
It won't work perfectly, but the stewards of overheating economies shouldn't dismiss what seems a sensible gauge.
This considered position was dismissed as typical AU waffle, but it now looks a whole lot more sensible than the bomb-them-and-to-hell-with-the-consequences approach.
As both studies argue, understanding North Korea, too often dismissed as a merely irrational and reckless pariah, is the starting point for devising sensible policy to manage the dangers that it poses.
On Sunday Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, also dismissed those questioning whether people could be trusted to spend their money wisely, saying most were much more sensible with their money than the state.
The victorious politician wore the sensible footwear during her stand against a controversial anti-abortion bill -- one that was eventually dismissed thanks to the work of Davis and dedicated protesters in Austin.
While mass treatment of affected communities has been advocated as the only sensible method of achieving control, other possible strategies, such as the random treatment of affected individuals, have been dismissed [14].
That would be good: sensible expectations make economies more stable.On the other hand, spending levels might indicate that consumers are so convinced that share prices will keep rising fast that a 20% decline is dismissed as an insignificant blip.
