"If you look at the number of people who went through the Al Qaeda training camps, and there are literally thousands who did, it stands to reason that a certain percentage of them are in this country".
"If you look at the number of people who went through the Al Qaeda training camps, and there are literally thousands who did, it stands to reason that a certain percentage of them are in this country," said John E. Bell Jr., who retired last summer as the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s field office in Detroit.
If paparazzi have a right to take photos (they do) and newspapers are allowed to print photos taken by paparazzi (they do), it stands to reason that those in the brief spotlight of an eager photographer's flash have a right to fight back, too (they do).
"And I really left those experiences thinking: OK, if these two guys could have a change of heart, doesn't it stand to reason that the average white person could make a few changes for the better?" If that makes her sound like a modern-day Pollyanna, it shouldn't; and her mailbag and Twitter feed are enough to let her know that not everyone agrees with her.
Doesn't it stand to reason that children can also be influenced by panicked parents and aggressive or poorly trained investigators?
So if it helped him, doesn't it stand to reason that it aided real major leaguers?
If EDM is the huge, ugly, monstrous mutation of authentic dance music, then doesn't it stand to reason that it will have spawned a huger, uglier, more monstrous form of partying?
Doesn't it stand to reason that the biggest culprits of marine plastic pollution are going to come from the most ubiquitously consumed plastic products -- indeed, ones that tend to blow in the wind?
The simple question is: If Scott Brown is going to question Elizabeth Warren's character based on whether or not she checked a box on a job application 20 years ago, doesn't it stand to reason that his character be questioned for helping mortgage companies railroad homeowners into toxic and exploding mortgages?
Inevitably, upon Galvani's death Aldini took his uncle's ideas a step further: didn't it stand to reason that sheep, pigs, cows and oxen would react to the electrical arc in the same fashion as frogs?
If it does, then it stands to reason that Bubba Watson, a self-taught golfer who has never had a lesson in his life, would shoot a four-under-par 68 to tie for the early lead Thursday in the championship sponsored by the largest organization of teaching professionals in the world.
